Mountain Home hits a grounder past the Westfield shortstop scoring a run, right before the rains came. (Photo by Bill Deren)
WESTFIELD – There was electricity in the air at Bullens Field Saturday night for Day 3 of the Babe Ruth Baseball 14-Year-Old World Series for all the wrong reasons.
Mountain Home (Arkansas) struck for the first runs in the top of the second inning. Lightning soon followed, and yet another game was postponed due to Mother Nature’s wrath.
The game finally resumed Sunday. Mountain Home, which led 2-0 before lightning struck Saturday, went on to defeat Westfield Sunday 10-1 (See story in today’s Sports Section).
The game began nearly two hours late, a result of a lightning delay earlier Saturday combined with slowed down play likely due to the unbearably hot, humid conditions. The extreme heat also contributed to nearly a half dozen cases of heat exhaustion at the World Series, some of which involved players directly involved in the World Series.
One player at the Westfield-Janesville (Wisc.) game on Sunday, in fact, collapsed to the ground running off the field in between innings, and was treated for heat exhaustion before being wheeled off the field on a stretcher.
