This happened in a game last week.
I am PU and the early game is about 1/2 over and the pitcher for the 2nd game is warming up outside the fence of the First Base Dugout.............she uncorks a wild one and hits the 1-1/2 inch backflow preventer for the fields sprinkler system sending a torrent of water into the FB dugout........(this was kinda funny actually......the girls in the dugout all got a little wet).
Well we stopped play for just a second and the coaches got a piece of plywood to deflect the water away from the dugout......nobody knew where the shutoff was so we resumed play with minimal delay.
About 10 minutes later between innings, I notice a large pool of water starting to form in foul territory about 30' behind first base against the fence (just where an overthrow to first might go.
My partner and I looked at it and it was about 3-4 inches deep and about 15 feet long and about 6 feet onto the grass from the fence.
I informed both coaches that we now had a dead ball area in the area where the water was standing.....if a ball went into this area......we would call it dead and award bases accordingly.
Is this how y'all would have handled it?
They got the water shut off about 10 minutes after that and the standing water was gone by the start of the 2nd game......so we did not make it a dead ball area for that game.
Joel
BTW.........Don is just 1 post away.........
[Edited by Gulf Coast Blue on Apr 29th, 2001 at 06:17 PM]