It always evens out in the end

[Andy]

Ok...I'll add my horror story.

JV girls game, early in the season, perhaps the first week of March. Darkness hits about 5:45 - 6:00 pm, game start time is 4:00 pm.

Neither team can pitch, hit, or catch...other than that, they're not bad!

The school AD shows up at the beginning of the game to pay us, then we don't see him for the rest of the game. The field is out on the far corner of the HS campus.

We get to the fourth inning, score is something like 10-8, almost all on walks and errors, this is painful! However, the sun is setting and I'm thinking we will need to suspend this game because of darkness soon. Just about this time, I notice a maintenance guy zooming out toward the field in a golf cart. He skids to a stop back behind the backstop, pulls the massive key ring off of his belt, opens a box on the pole and starts turning on lights!. I wanted to go over and choke the guy!

We got to the bottom of the sixth (about an hour later), visitors are ahead 16-12. Home team proceeds to score 14 runs before an out was made and wins on the mercy rule 26-16. Game time about three and a half hours.

Quickest I ever had was an 18u game in a weekend tournament, visiting team leadoff batter singled in the top of the first, was bunted to second and scored on another base hit. Pitchers took over the rest of the game, only had two or three other baserunners, final score 1-0 in seven innings, total time about 58 minutes.

The only bad part was that it was my first game in a 5 game day and not the last!