When we arrived at the Dell Diamond at 6:30pm, the sun was shining; by 7pm, just minutes before the scheduled first pitch, the skies opened up, and for the next hour torrential rains and thunderstorms hit the Round Rock area, such as we have never seen in the history of the USRT. By the time things tapered off, the warning track was a swamp, the dugouts were under three feet of water, and half of the fans had bailed and gone home.

But for those who stuck it out they were rewarded, for the entire front office and grounds crew went to extraordinary lengths to get the game in and put a show on for the fans. “What you saw on the field was the entire organizational totem pole” said Seamus Gallivan, sharing that even team co-owners Reid Ryan and Reese Ryan and team president Jay Miller were down on the field squeegeeing the water off of the playing surface.

Take a look at these amazing photos; the postgame fireworks show became the “pregame” show, going off while the crew feverishly worked on the field. The game finally got underway at 9:44pm CDT. Final out? 12:13am!

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