Opening and closing the fields

OPENING FIELD

• Take off the tarps and fold them up a few times.  
• Tarps (DO NOT DRAG THE TARPS ACROSS THE FIELDS, EVER!)
• Carry them off the fields at Cranberry Park.
• Place tarps on the metal boxes behind home plate.
• Graham Park, you can put them on the sides of the dugouts.

• Removing tarps that are holding water is a 2 person job.  2 people will lift the tarp.  By lifting and folding together, the tarp can be carried off to the side of the field and dumped near a dugout.  This will prevent the water from draining into the batter's box / home plate area.

Field specific directions - based on slope of field:

• Fields 1, 2, and 3 at Cranberry Park - we should be pulling the tarp towards the third base dugout area.
• Fields 4 and 5 at Cranberry Park - we are pulling them to the first base dugout area.
• Fields L and H at Graham - we are pulling the tarps towards the third base dugout area and the water will run into the warning track material.
• Fields I and J at Graham - we are pulling tarps straight back to the back stops.
• *No tarps on Field K (Shetland 4, 5, and 6)*
• Use the coco mat if there are any marks in the field. Rake if wet, do not use coco mats on wet field.
• Put bases in and line the field.

CLOSING FIELD

• Two or three people can grab rakes and do the sliding pits at first base, both sides of second base and third base.
• Rake in the opposite direction of the sliding pits.  
• Rake from pitching mound to outfield direction. 
• Rake around home plate and in front of pitcher’s mound lightly.
• Another person can grab the coco mat and start going around in circles between the baselines and working your way towards the pitcher’s mound.
• (Please do not use the coco mat if the field is wet or damp)
• Make sure you pull the bases, put them in the shed, put the plugs back in the base anchors and lock the shed.
• Lastly, please put the tarps back on the field.  Some fields have two some have one. (DO NOT DRAG THE TARPS ACROSS THE FIELDS, EVER!)

Very Important:

WE DO NOT DO THESE THINGS ANYMORE.

• Do not bring carts onto the field to drag.
• No more shovels.
• No more shop-vacs.
• No more field dry.