Field Conditions Question

[justcallmeblue]

I worked on a Town field today that was nearly perfect in all respects. It was entirely field-turf with Painted lines to the poles with fences all the way out both lines. Its typically a "majors" baseball field and even had a removeable pitchers mound.

There was only one issue. When bases need to be moved to the 65' you had holes that needed to be covered. The covers were METAL and had Fieldturf glued on top!! There were only 2 covers for 3 spots. So, in the GR it was determined that the covers were to be placed over 1B and 2B leaving an exposed peg-hole behind 3B. All teams figured that this was the least likely spot for an injury to occur.

My concern lays in the fact that the darn things were metal and although they may have sat just shy of flush to the ground, the covers were a hazard on the playing field and someone could get hurt (thankfully no one did). The alternatives of leaving the spaces exposed was not an option. Addtionally, lets say there was a popup to 3rd. .. I had an exposed area the size of the base with a hole in it just waiting to eat up an ankle or a knee.

Has anyone experienced this and seeming that eveything above was mentioned in the gruond rules, if something were to happen, wouldnt it be the Towns issue?