Chase Field umbrella what?!
They are inside. The umbrella was supposed to be for the walk home, probably. (MLB.tv)

It was a dark and stormy night as the Diamondbacks and Padres played at Chase Field on Monday -- and it was so stormy that the domed stadium could not keep everybody dry, even with the retractable roof shut.

Dome, sweet dome?

Wet park!
The pitter-patter of torrential rain on the windows at Chase Field. (MLB.tv)

Witnesses note that Chase Field has leaked before, but not quite like this. Torrential rains over downtown Phoenix sprayed fans a section of about 100 seats behind home plate in the first inning. Rain tapered off by the second but runoff kept getting fans wet for a while afterward, the Associated Press reports.

The rain did not affect the game, which the Padres won 10-3.

Chase Field opened in 1998, the D-backs first season in Major League Baseball, so it's not ancient. The roof is made of 9 million pounds of structural steel, and "operates on the same tried-and-true technology found in drawbridges and overhead traveling cranes," according to the dome's web page. A pair of 200-horsepower motors open or close the roof in about four minutes. The D-backs have a retractable roof mostly because of the desert heat, although the clouds obviously still work in Arizona, too.

And the roof is great, it's just, there's a gap in there somewhere.

Drips
Not what they're paying for at Chase Field. (MLB.tv)