Dodgers game called off in 5th inning over disgusting stadium malfunction
The Los Angeles Dodgers are hoping the way they ended their preseason isn’t an omen of what’s to come this year.
They took on the Angels in finale of the Freeway Series at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday.
The hometown team was up 4-3 in the fifth inning when an underground pipe burst, flooding the field with sewage.
Cleaning crews used large brooms to try to clean up the mess that covered the warning track on the third-base side of the field.
Sewage spills onto Dodger Stadium field, game cut short https://t.co/B5TglVaLsN pic.twitter.com/bf1s89d1DN
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 28, 2018
After about a half-hour delay, however, stadium officials decided to call game.
“Apparently there was a pipe backup on two different levels of the stadium,” Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten told reporters. “We don’t know exactly where the backup was, or what caused it. It had something to do with a main pipe here, as well as main pipe outside the stadium.”
Curt Sandoval of KABC-TV in Los Angeles reported from the stomach-turning scene of the cleanup.
“It smells really bad, man,” one Angels fan in the stands told Sandoval.
“Look what the Angels brought to us,” a Dodgers fan joked in response.
Some of the sewage seeped into the Dodger coaches’ quarters, according to the Orange County Register.
Kasten said it was undetermined whether the fans in attendance would receive refunds.
“Chavez Latrine,” literally. #SFGiants
— Luis 🐝 (@lululemonade0) March 28, 2018
The Dodgers expect the stadium to be sewage-free Thursday when they host the rival San Francisco Giants on Opening Day.
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