Thread: Sunshine delay
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Old Tue Oct 21, 2014, 07:27am
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by tcannizzo View Post
I am sure some/most of you have had this, but it was a first for me.

Tournament this weekend, 6:30PM game, and the sun was setting just above the treeline perfectly and directly in straight away CF.

Catcher wasn't ready, so Coach went to take the first warm up pitch, and was almost killed by it. Luckily he caught the pitch, but he made a very strange noise in the process.

I delayed the start of the game by about 10 minutes.
Strangest weather delay I have ever seen.
Would you stop the game if any of the fielders had the sun in their eyes? Certainly don't stop the game if the umpire has the sun in their eyes?
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