Mike Kittrell of Philadelphia shields himself from the driving rain outside Citizens Bank Park Tuesday. Game 5 of the World Series, which was suspended Monday due to heavy rain and slated to continue Tuesday night, was postponed until tonight.

PHILADELPHIA — Bud Selig didn't stick around.

The baseball commissioner returned to Milwaukee to wait out the weather and a chance to resume Game 5 of the World Series.

A day after the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays were stopped because of rain with the score 2-all after 5Z\x innings, Selig rescheduled the completion of the suspended game for 8:37 p.m. tonight.

"Right now the forecast is somewhat problematic," Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, said Tuesday. "The rain is supposed to go through earlier in the day. It is supposed to be cold and windy, but not as cold and not as windy as today. The commissioner is going to monitor it on an hourly basis."

DuPuy convened a noon meeting of Major League Baseball staff at a Philadelphia hotel, and the group decided not to attempt to play Tuesday night. DuPuy then headed home to New York.

DuPuy said he was planning to talk with MLB officials in Philadelphia this morning and head back around noon.

"We'll see what it looks like," he said.

On Monday night, Selig said fans and the teams would be given plenty of notice, but wouldn't be specific.

"There's no fixed time," DuPuy said. "It's whenever the commissioner decides it's either playable or not playable."

The National Weather Service forecast called for rain, possible snow showers and a wind advisory for Tuesday night, and said it will be partly cloudy tonight with low temperatures in the mid-30s and the wind diminishing.

DuPuy wasn't worried about drainage at Citizens Bank Park, which opened four years ago.

"The field is great. They can get the field ready very quickly," he said.

Although a final decision had not been made, baseball officials said there most likely would not be a travel day if the Rays win. That means if there isn't another delay, Game 6 would be Thursday night at Tropicana Field and Game 7 would be Friday night.

While Phillies players got to stay at home, the Rays had checked out of their Philadelphia hotel Monday and wound up at the 97-year-old Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, Del. While some players spent the day at the hotel, others went to a mall.

"What's there to do in Delaware?" reliever J.P. Howell said. "We're nervous to go outside. This isn't our territory."

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Mike Kittrell, from Philadelphia, shields himself from the driving rain outside of Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. Game 5 of the baseball World Series, which was suspended on Monday evening due to heavy rain, was postponed until Wednesday, Oct. 29. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)