What's the call? . . . 911

[greymule]

I don't have the details yet, but I do know our umpire called 911.

As the players were warming up before the 6:30 start of a men's SP game (last night?), they saw, across the street, a teenage boy beating up a teenage girl. The story is that the boy was punching and kicking the screaming girl, and then he dragged her into the street by the hair. So the players broke it up, and somebody called the police.

The police arrived, but it turned out that the boy (age 15) is the girl's boyfriend, and she (undoubtedly fearing for her safety) would not provide any information. So after seeing to it that the young man and his girlfriend left the area, the police also left.

But in the second inning of the SP game, a car pulled up to the curb, and several people exited the vehicle and proceeded onto the field to attack the players who broke up the fight. I am told that one of the people who went after the players was the mother of the 15-year-old punk. One player was supposedly quite bloody, but the person who told me this story wasn't sure whether he had been cut with a knife or was bleeding from a punch to the face.

The ump, who carries his cell phone with him, called 911. The police were again dispatched to the field; I believe the game was ended . . . and that's all I know so far, except that the township says they're going to assign a police officer to the park every weekday evening while the games are going on.

(I admit that I'm curious to know how people who could fit into one vehicle could attack at least 20 young men who had loaded metal softball bats handy, but maybe I'll find out.)