In their 30 home games, the Orioles experienced three rain delays totaling four hours, 29 minutes and no postponements. It turns out weather was not much of an issue, at least not factoring the warm weather. If it’s not maintained to this optimum major league standard then it’s going to be downfall from that.”Įventually the games began and the concerns of the grounds crew pivoted to monitoring the weather and maintaining constant communication with umpires about any possible inclement weather that could result in a delay. “It’s such a big investment, a lot of people probably don’t realize that the field itself probably is one of the bigger components of playing the game so if you don’t maintain that it’s a critical part of the game. “It grows like so fast so on a daily basis it would have been like three, four inches and 30 inches by the time we could have gotten back into the field,” Sherry said. In a time when people were encouraged to stay home as often as possible, Sherry ensured it was done because of how the grass might have appeared after several months of inactivity. Maintaining the grass was something that Sherry and her two assistants did for nearly four months before players began trickling in around early July. The site of major leaguers limbering up in a second round of spring training occurred after Sherry and her two assistants alternated days where they would be the only ones maintaining the grass in an eerily silent ballpark. “We had to get creative, we had to utilize the concourse for some drills, the bullpen more often than not and spacing everybody out so they could get their workout in and we could also be able to maintain the field at a level the regular season was going to occur.” “In my mind I always plan for the worst, so I’m thinking we could try to get these guys daily workouts in but hopefully I can have a discussion with the manager and the coaches about where to do these workouts on the field because they’re going from five to six fields that they use in Sarasota to one field to do all this work with an exponential amount of people too. “We had an idea that the spring training could occur or pick back up at our home ballpark,” Sherry said.
Sherry had a front row seat to it all - well at least as close as you can get in the age of social distancing that has existed for a little over a year.
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