[jmccullough]

About four years ago I was coaching my son's Farm League game. We heard thunder, saw no lightning or rain. We kept playing for a little while, then we decided to call it (no umpires, coaches control everything). That same night, in a town about eight miles away, two girls were struck by lightning in a high school softball game and one of them was killed. Apparently lightning and thunder had been going on for a while around that field and people had been talking about how maybe they should call the game, but they never did.
Were we glad we called our game? You bet!Now we have lightning detectors at our field, and we have to stop if lightning is detected anywhere near (twenty miles? I'm not sure of the exact distance).
Don't take chances. I'm not generally one to say this, but it's just a game.