lightning

[MrUmpire]

Originally Posted by canadaump6

The lightning was followed by a small rumble of thunder about 10 seconds later. It was not 200 feet from players- when I said centre field I meant in that direction, but certainly not close to the diamond.

Initially, you said, "A couple streaks of lightning went off in centre field"...not near centre field, not in the general direction of centre field, not beyond centre field, but IN centre field.

Okay, so now you change your story. Ten seconds equates to approximately two miles, so the lightning was still well within the danger zone. It would still be idiotic to expose players to that level of danger.

Anytime we get lightning everyone just goes into the dugout or bench area thinking that shelter from rain also provides shelter from lightning, so they wouldn't have been any safer had I called the game. Better to play out the last 1 or 2 outs than have everyone standing in the dugouts hoping that the game gets resumed.

Open structures like pavillions and dugouts are, accoring to NOAA, among the worst areas to seek shelter from lightning.

As a side note, I had a game today as a player in which a flash of lightning went off more than an hour before the game. We had another flash in the 7th or 8th inning, but nobody said anything and the game was completed.

Incomprehensible.