A game in the Cal Ripken Sr. Collegiate Baseball League was canceled this week after a fire truck flooded the field.
The Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts were due to play a home game at Montgomery Blair Baseball Stadium versus the Metro SoCo Braves on Thursday. The stadium is next door to Maryland’s Silver Spring Fire Station 16.
The Thunderbolts said on social media that a ball that was hit out of the park struck a pickup truck parked by the fire station, and that in response, someone in a fire truck sprayed gallons of water over the fence between the two properties.
“It was just pouring water straight onto the grass and there wasn’t any room for the water to sit, so it just basically flooded our field, and we weren’t able to play anymore,” Thunderbolts pitcher Jay Wandell told Hagerstown’s WDVM-TV.
The station is operated by the Silver Spring Volunteer