Watch as water from broken pipe floods Kauffman Stadium outfield during Royals game

Well, it’s been that kind of season for the Royals.

A broken pipe near the Royals bullpen caused water to flood the warning track during the fourth inning of Friday night’s game at Kauffman Stadium.

Water quickly pooled on the warning track and the groundskeepers worked diligently to spread it out evenly.

After it became apparent that this would not be a brief delay, the Royals left the field. However, Royals manager Ned Yost went to get a closer look and talk with head groundskeeper Trevor Vance.

The Royals were attempting to turn off the water supply while the groundskeepers worked.

This was the scene:

Finally the water stopped coming. The delay lasted exactly 30 minutes, and Yost said in his many decades in the game, this was a first.

“I’ve never seen a broken pipe,” Yost said. “I’ve seen sprinklers come on in the middle of a game, but not where pipes have broken and water is gushing on the field.”

Yost had high praise for Trevor Vance and his crew, who kept the warning track from being a soggy mess.

“The thing could have been a lot longer than it needed to be,” Yost said of the delay, “but Trevor and his group got down there and handled it and did a great job of getting the water out of there and getting it firmed up so that we could play.”

During the break in the action, the Cleveland Indians had a bit of fun at the Royals’ expense on Twitter:

This story was originally published August 24, 2018 at 8:47 PM.