CINCINNATI — A game between the Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds was postponed Thursday night because of heavy rain that was expected to continue well into the night.
The final scheduled game in the team’s four-game interleague series wasn’t immediately rescheduled. The Reds won two of the three games so far.
The teams were coming off a 13-inning, 8-4 Reds win that ended at 1:20 a.m. and included a 1-hour, 14-minute delay. There have been eight rain delays at Great American Ball Park this season totaling 13 hours, 40 minutes.
The game Thursday never got started and was called off 37 minutes after it was scheduled to start.
Trainer’s room
Tigers: Victor Martinez will join the Tigers in New York for the start of a series against the Yankees on Friday and is expected to be activated off the disabled list. He’s been sidelined since May 19 with an inflamed left knee. … Alex Avila will catch in the bullpen on Friday to test his sore left knee.
Reds: Rookie right-hander Jon Moscot will have surgery on his dislocated left shoulder. He’s expected to be ready for spring training.
A-Rod reaches 2,999
NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez moved within one hit of 3,000 for his career with a single to left field in the fifth inning Thursday night against the Miami Marlins.
The New York Yankees slugger entered the game with 2,997 hits. He had an RBI single to center in the first before hitting a hard grounder to left off Marlins starter Mat Latos with one out in the fifth.
With one more hit, the soon-to-be 40 Rodriguez will become the 29th player to join the elite club and the first since former Yankees teammate Derek did so four years ago.
In his rejuvenated return from a one-year drug suspension, Rodriguez got his 2,000th RBI last week to move into second place since the record was kept beginning in 1920, passed Willie Mays for fourth on the homer list with No. 661 and exceeded 10,000 at-bats in a 21-year career.
