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1) The field is wet enough that it is slippery, especially around the mound area. A pitcher could be injured by slippery mound, and if he can't get a good footing a batter could also be injured by a pitch.
2) If you push your foot down, pick it up and water fills the imprint, it's wet.
3) All the baseballs at my disposal are wet.
4) Any of above and it's still raining.
Had a double header on Saturday. Just before starting the game a light rain turned harder, so we did not start the game (we had already had pre-game meeting and pitcher was taking warmup pitches). We took a delay and the rain stopped in about 30 minutes. The plate and mound area were covered during the delay. Upon inspection of the field we decided the mound area needed work, because it was slick. A bag of "kitty litter" and some raking around the mound and home plate and we were ready to go. The home team was designated as the ball rubdown team, a towel was found, and all balls that rolled in the outfield grass were returned to them after play had ended. The second game was much drier, with less need for ball rubdown and the field in better shape.
I was not there, but I heard the next game was stopped in the 4th when the rains returned.
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