Meet meteorologist Marty McKewon the hardest working person at the 2018 College World Series
Meet meteorologist Marty McKewon, the hardest-working person at the 2018 College World Series NCAA.com
Pass the time with & on today's edition of our Preview Show : — NCAA Baseball (@NCAACWS) But rain is not the main enemy. That can be played through. Lightning is the villain. The College World Series uses a sensor system, with second base at TD Ameritrade Park as its coordinates, that shows lightning in the area. Anything within an eight-mile radius of the ballpark, play must stop. One strike, and they’re out. The clock starts, and forget about taking the field until there have been 30 lightning-free minutes. Every strike resets the clock. RELATED: RELATED:
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PRESENTED BY OMAHA, Neb. – The busiest guy at the College World Series Monday isn’t in the lineup. He won’t hit, pitch or go in to play shortstop. He’s sitting in a room near the third base dugout – the bunker, they call it – peering at monitors. Imagine a radar specialist intent on a screen, on the lookout for incoming hostile bogeys. “Pretty much accurate,” Marty McKewon is saying. He’s the official meterologist for the College World Series, and he’s already having a trying week. There was a 2-hour and 49-minute delay Sunday during the Arkansas-Texas game. Oregon State and Washington were called off the field at 3:16 p.m. CT Monday in the top of the sixth inning, and didn’t get back until 7:47. RELATED: McKewon saw it coming. Part of his job is to issue a forecast each morning, to let CWS officials know what might be store. So how’d he do Monday? “It was, fortunately, accurate. I said it was highly likely we’d have an interruption in game one, which could make it challenging to complete game two. Today was an easier day in terms of forecasting. Yesterday was a more challenging day, because no one expected the thunderstorm activity in Omaha around noon.” Rain delay blues?Pass the time with & on today's edition of our Preview Show : — NCAA Baseball (@NCAACWS) But rain is not the main enemy. That can be played through. Lightning is the villain. The College World Series uses a sensor system, with second base at TD Ameritrade Park as its coordinates, that shows lightning in the area. Anything within an eight-mile radius of the ballpark, play must stop. One strike, and they’re out. The clock starts, and forget about taking the field until there have been 30 lightning-free minutes. Every strike resets the clock. RELATED: RELATED: