Resourceful Firefighter Floods Baseball Field, Forcing Cancellation of Game, After Punk Kid Hit His Pickup Truck With a Batting Practice Home Run
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (WKRC) — A firefighter flooded a high school baseball field after a home run ball struck his personal car.
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS) issued an apology following an incident involving a water discharge near a fire station and a community baseball field, which led to the cancellation of a scheduled game on Thursday evening, July 17, 2025.
According to WJLA, a baseball team claimed that a firefighter had sprayed down a field at Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland on Thursday after a ball hit during pre-game practice went over the fence and struck a pickup truck parked at Silver Spring Fire Station 16.
“One of our players heard someone from the firehouse say, ‘Hey, watch out. We don't want you to get wet. And he said, ‘I'm going to shoot the water onto the field.’ Probably two minutes later, all we saw was [a massive stream of water] basically just shooting directly onto center field," Thunderbolts outfielder Aidan Driscoll told reporters with WJLA.
MCFRS extended their "heartfelt apologies" and expressed appreciation for the community's patience and understanding as they address the situation.
O'Connor told WJLA's reporters that the incident not only affected their players, but also members of the opposing team, who had made a long drive to face the Thunderbolts. He added that some umpires travel from as far away as southern Pennsylvania, and that fans were expecting to watch a game and were left disappointed.
That's an ideal use of tax payer dollars right there. People may read that and think I'm being sarcastic. That I might actually be a person who's seething in his chair about a public servant abusing the resources WE PAY FOR to carry out a personal vendetta against some innocent high schooler who got a hold of the ball in pre-game warmups. But no sir. Not one bit. For starters, no problems people may have with public service employees stem from the fact that they make too much money. Not salary-wise, at least. For seconds, I'm the biggest proponent of employees in all professions, both public and private, being able to capitalize on the perks of their position. Remember when earlier this month a firefighter got in trouble for giving "some hot girls" a ride on his big red firetruck?
Fuck that. If we're going to start a firefighter at under $55k a year to risk his life in NYC (according to joinfdny.com), the least we can do is let them pick up the occasional hose hopper. And if some punk kid is going to have the audacity to put barrel on ball in fucking batting practice and dent the hood of your Chevy Silverado, the least you should be able to do is unleash your supply hose and flood the shit out of their diamond.
Jokes aside, flooding a high school baseball field with your fire hose because you parked within home run distance is such a hilarious overreaction I have no choice but to respect it. Having your fire station directly next to a baseball field has to be such a pain in the ass. It sounds so easy to simply not park by the fence. Just find a parking spot down the street and walk the extra hundred feet or so. But after however many weeks, months, years of working for the fire department, eventually you're going to say fuck it and just park close to the building. Or I can imagine if it's a situation where there's a short left field fence, and when it comes to batting practice, the talented kids can basically basically pick and choose when they want to pop one over. In that case, it's gotta be like, "Come on guys… I don't care if you hit a home run during the game… but we know you can bomb them in batting practice… and you knows there are cars parked here… what are you trying to prove? Why are you being such dicks?"
But I don't care what age you are. I don't care if you're a full grown adult taking BP for your co-ed league softball league. You can't tell a person to not try to hit home runs. A person only gets so many chances in life to hit a ball over a fence. You never know when your last opportunity might be. If you ever find yourself in a situation where someone is throwing you live pitches, and there's a home run fence a reachable distance away, it's your duty to swing for it. It would be disrespectful to the game of baseball to do anything else.
Still… flooding a baseball field with your fire hose is so remarkably petty I can't help but love it. Just a classic war between youth baseball league and Silver Spring Fire Station 16, who happens to be located behind the local high school's outfield fence. Fair play on both sides.