I-35W Bridge Collapse; TWINS HELP BY PLAYING; THE GAME; Game goes on to keep fans away from roads.(SPORTS)

Byline: La Velle E. Neal III; Staff Writer

The show had to go on Wednesday, as much as some Twins didn't want it to.

After watching scenes from the Interstate 35W bridge collapse just moments before the scheduled first pitch, the Twins took the field and lost 5-3 to Kansas City in 10 innings. But there was little thought given to missing out on a chance to pick up a game on Cleveland in the wild-card race and Detroit in the AL Central.

What mattered was that the crowd of 24,880 stayed in the Metrodome and did not head out onto the nearby roads and highways, which would have snarled traffic for emergency crews rushing to the site of the tragedy to …