It's almost an hour's drive from Valle del Oro in Mesa over to the Peoria Sports Complex in Peoria. We could see more and more blue sky as we drove, so we were feeling pretty good about the game. The field in Peoria was gorgeous today.
They are celebrating the twentieth year of the facility and it is in great shape --
The Mariners were playing the Oakland Athletics today. Hector Noesi was the lead-off pitcher for the Mariners and the A's just ate him alive! The wind was gusty and blowing towards the outfield. The A's got two two-base hits and three home runs in the first inning. And the poor Mariners couldn't buy a hit. We have watched Dustin Smoak since he first came up when we were in Arizona two years ago. We'd read that he was doing pretty good this year, but today he couldn't do anything...
By the start of the fourth inning, the clouds around us had gotten very dark and the lights were turned on. Then we started seeing flashes of lightning over beyond left field. The umpires immediately pulled the teams off the field and the ground crew started pulling out the tarp.
The wind gave the ground crew and their helpers a pretty tough time. They had trouble hanging on to it -- and keeping out from under it. About that time, it really started to pour. We thought it might just be a rain delay, but saw that the teams were not only leaving the dugouts, but were taking all their equipment with them...
Since the teams hadn't played a full five innings to make it a legal game, they later announced it would be considered a cancelled game. We should be able to trade our tickets in for another Spring Training game in the next couple of weeks.
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