Wilmington, Del. ? It was rainy and miserable outside, but the Tampa Bay Rays couldn’t have been happier to spend an off-day in Delaware instead of Florida. The Rays’ collective feeling was that they have been given a second life, with their World Series dream still alive, even if the odds still aren’t in their favor.

Game 5 of the World Series between the Phillies and Rays at Citizens Bank Park, which was suspended Monday, was postponed on Tuesday night due to the continued rain. The Phillies lead the best-of-seven series by three games to one.

The game is scheduled to pick up this evening with the Phillies batting in the bottom of the sixth inning, and the score tied, 2-2.

The Rays trailed Phillies ace Cole Hamels, 2-0, before getting an RBI single on Evan Longoria’s first World Series hit in the fourth inning and an RBI single by Carlos Pena in the sixth. After Longoria flied out to Shane Victorino to end the sixth, the game was suspended.

“Anytime you play another day when you face elimination, you feel good no matter how you get to that next day,” Rays reliever J.P. Howell said on Tuesday at the team hotel.

The Rays have been through quite a bit, not the least of which was having to scramble for rooms after Monday’s suspended game.

Tampa Bay had checked out of its Philadelphia hotel before the game and had planned to head right to the airport after the game.

Around the fifth inning, traveling secretary Jeff Ziegler began making calls throughout the area in hopes of finding a hotel with 87 rooms for the Rays’ traveling party. Major League Baseball’s agreement with the players’ union states that the teams must have first-class accommodations.

By the time the team boarded the bus, Ziegler had the Rays booked at the Hotel DuPont, in Wilmington. The team arrived at their hotel before 2 a.m.

“Ziggy (Ziegler) is the MVP of this trip,” Howell said. “This is a nice hotel.”

First a suspended game, then scrambling for a hotel. Reliever Grant Balfour thought he had experienced it all before Monday night

“I’ve been playing baseball professional for 12 years and have never seen anything like that situation,” Balfour said.

The Rays hadn’t decided whether they would check out of the hotel before tonight’s game, but that is the way the team was leaning.

“We’ll make an evaluation based on the weather forecast,” Ziegler said. “Because of the distance, it would be much more convenient to check out before the game.”

The hotel is located about 24 miles from Citizens Bank Park.

The Rays were given off on Tuesday, although there was a bus heading to Citizens Bank Park for those looking for optional treatment.

A few of the players said they walked around town, did some shopping, went out to eat, and mainly thought about still being alive in the World Series.