As you all know, Avery plays on a Select League baseball team where they don't play in leagues, per se, but in Select level team tourneys. They don't have tournaments every weekend, but usually every other weekend or so. The format is that on Friday/Saturday, each team in the tournament plays a total of two games. Then, based off those two games, runs scored, runs scored against, etc, seeds are based for the tournament on Saturday. Usually we play two games on Saturday, but lately we've had a game on Friday, and then a game on Saturday. It's nice, but that means three trips to the fields we play for that tournament instead of just two. A nice thing that is means though, is less money "usually" spent on food/drinks, since we can eat before/after the game. Tonight his team played at 6:15pm, with us arriving at 5:45pm to get him warmed up, but shortly after the first inning, rain began and lightning forced the game to be suspended. As with most baseball, everyone usually waits for 20-30 minutes to see if the lightning will pass. Tonight, that wasn't the case, and the rain and lightning just got worse and worse, to where there were rivers of water along the basepaths, streams of water pouring off the field to anywhere the water could run, and lightning flying out everywhere as if it was an Independence Day firework finale. All the parents and kids were sitting on the bleachers, since there were covered, when all of a sudden lightning hit a light pole and exploded in a blinding flash of light and cracked with a loud BOOM! That was it...we all ran to the car as fast as we could...it was time to head home. We made it about 1/2 the way when I hear J screaming at me. I look back and Braden had slipped in the pools of water (and now mud) and fell on his butt. He got up and I then noticed that his shoes (flip-flops) had flew off and he was now barefoot. He was also really upset and covered in mud. Poor guy! I got him to the car, while carrying Evan. I threw open the doors, threw Evan on his car seat, got A in the car with his baseball gear/bag, got Braden in the car, and undressed him down to his undies (which were ALSO covered in mud). After driving for a while with no visibility due to the torrential downpour, I look back at Braden and he had calmed down. I told him it looked like he was going swimming when I had initially seen him in the water at the park. We laughed and the situation turned into a light one, instead of a "I'm mad and wet" one. Time will tell if the tournament will continue, be postponed, or cancelled. It's been three hours since the game started and it's still coming down...that's not a good sign.
Too bad too, since we were up 2-0 and were on a roll. :(
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