Maryland Firefighter Floods Baseball Field After Fly Ball Damages Truck

You tin play a batch of sports successful nan rainfall and nan mud, but shot is not 1 of them.

A crippled for nan Cal Ripken League successful Montgomery County, Maryland, had to beryllium canceled Thursday because of a feud betwixt a firefighter and nan Takoma Thunderbolts.

A shot coach told News4 that astatine batting believe a agelong alert shot soared complete a obstruction and deed a pickup motortruck successful nan parking batch astatine nan adjacent Silver Spring Fire Station. Then nan coach said a region firefighter deliberately flooded nan field.

Video shows a watercourse of water.

Players pinch nan Thunderbolts, a collegiate men’s team, said immoderate clip went by aft nan shot deed nan truck. Then they saw a occurrence motor backmost retired of nan position connected University Boulevard.

Moments later, a immense watercourse of h2o began cascading onto nan section connected which nan squad was astir to play.

A subordinate ran to nan position successful an effort to get nan h2o turned disconnected but was met pinch a watercourse of angry words.

Max Eckert and Brock Hunter, players connected nan Thunderbolts, shared what happened next.

“I spot immoderate players rushing disconnected nan section because h2o is being changeable onto our outfield, which, past we walk a batch of clip fixing nan section up arsenic it’s been raining each azygous day,” said Eckert. “And truthful I ran retired location reasoning it was a correction and conscionable saying ‘Hey! Hey! You astir apt want to move that disconnected aliases redirect it,’ and past things sewage a small heated from that constituent on.”

“I travel from Virginia, you know, nan squad we were playing is from Virginia, truthful a batch of families drove an hour-and-a-half successful postulation to hopefully play aft each this rain, and didn’t get to play,” said Hunter.

Hunter said a batch of nan players were unhappy and it each made for “a crazy experience.”

The Montgomery County Fire Department took nan incident seriously, issuing an apology connected Friday.

“We want to definitive our sincere apologies to nan players, teams, Cal Ripken League and each fans and families impacted by this disruption,” nan connection sounds successful part. “We understand really important this venue is to nan community, and particularly to nan young athletes who look guardant to these events.”

Montgomery County Park Police is investigating. It’s not yet known if nan firefighter responsible was placed connected leave.