A car having issues leaving the field provided one of the first slapstick moments of Spring Training
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On Sunday, the Astros beat the Cardinals, 7-3, at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium in Jupiter, Fla. In the bottom of the seventh inning, there was a brief on-field delay caused by something you could really only imagine happening at Spring Training.
A car was on the field for some seventh-inning-stretch festivities, and when it was all over it was time to leave. But, as the driver and grounds crew would quickly find out, it wouldn't be that easy. What ensued was straight out of a slapstick comedy:
It's Spring Training for everybody, they say ...