I’ve heard for years that the Durham Bulls Athletic Park drains well but this was ridiculous. With Virginia leading Miami 2-0 in the ACC baseball tournament, the skies opened up and the entire field was flooded with water. Amazingly, the field’s drainage and the grounds crew allowed the game to be resumed before nightfall.

Take a look at the attached picture which shows the stadium in the afternoon. How could that field be playable within a very few hours? If you watched any of the conclusion of the game Friday night, which ended with a Virginia 6-4 victory, you hardly even saw any ill effects of the massive rain.

About six inches of rain fell in a short period of time to flood parts of Durham and Chapel Hill. Kudos to the Bulls for creating such a facility and to the grounds crew that prepared the field for play. The Bulls regular ground crew, headed by Scott Strickland, are the ones to thank.