The first five innings of Yankees-Rangers were pretty uneventful. Then the skies opened up:
Hard rain at Yankee Stadium leads to tarp mishaps
They couldn’t unroll it, and then it almost ate a person.
Heavy rain, lightning and wind to the point that the groundskeepers couldn’t really unroll the tarp because it was so waterlogged:
They eventually covered the field -- but only after it had been soaked, and not without moments of peril:
One of the grounds crew got caught inside the tarp & others had to go in to rescue him. I am not making this up. pic.twitter.com/HCH5qmOTRD
— Daniel Barbarisi (@DanBarbarisi) July 24, 2014 (Not as bad as it could be, but still bad.)
The final unrolling required the added help of people not even in the crew:
And at last, tarp:
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