TV broadcast captures the moment lightning struck during Tigers-Red Sox game

The Detroit Tigers and the Boston Red Sox were out there battling the elements on Monday.

Detroit and Boston met on Monday for a game that was played in inclement weather at Comerica Park in Detroit, Mich. During the seventh inning of the contest, Red Sox third baseman Andruw Monasterio knocked a base hit into right field.

As Monasterio was running to first base, a visible flash of lightning hit near the stadium. The local television broadcast on Detroit SportsNet captured an amazing video showing the moment of the lightning strike.

The footage was filmed by the “Dirt Cam” angle of the broadcast. You can see the video at the link here.

The two teams were able to play out the rest of the seventh inning as Boston scored five times to take a 5-2 lead over the Tigers. But the game then went into a rain delay in the eighth inning, getting set back by 28 minutes before play was resumed. The Red Sox eventually went on to win over the Tigers by a final score of 5-4.

But that looked like a pretty close call by the strike of lightning in the seventh inning. It definitely brought back memories of the baseball game last year where thunder and lightning actually managed to cause a run-scoring balk.