On a 95-degree day, Sue Sellner fumed from under an oversize green-and-lavender umbrella next to the third-base dugout.
How was it possible that neither umpire called catcher's interference on the play moments earlier?
"If everyone else saw it, why didn't you?" she yelled.
When she started another round of complaining, her younger son started laughing and walked over.
"Be quiet, Mom," Tony Tiani said. "We don't want him to get mad at us."
This might sound like a scene from a Little League game, but Tiani is 26 years old.
He and his brother Jason, 27, play on the Cubs in the over-25 adult baseball league run by the Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks.
Baseball has been a family experience for the Tianis and their mother for nearly two decades.
"I just enjoy watching my sons play together," Sellner said. "To me, they still have the desire and the goals and the pleasure of playing the game, even like when they were 12."
She's been watching them since well before then. Jason and Tony both began playing baseball around the age of 5. She taxied them back and forth and cheered them through Little League, then junior varsity and varsity at Arundel High.
Sellner laughs when she recalls how she once cried after thinking she missed Arundel High's bus leaving for an away game. But it was a home game, and Tony told her later that he wondered why she was leaving before the game began.
"I didn't even miss any practices," she said. "When it was cold, I went outside and sat with a blanket around me."
The boys are now men, and Seller still always gets to the games.
Girlfriends, wives and children of the players are in attendance, even on the hottest of days. But Sellner is the one who serves as the unofficial "team mother." She cheers for everyone, on nearly every pitch.
Her sons appreciate her support.
"She's always been loud and rowdy like that, but in a good way," said Tony Tiani, a Pasadena resident.
The league keeps the Tianis and others busy. Cubs manager Brent Steen said his team starts practicing the first Sunday in March, with the season starting a few weeks later and finishing in August.
Teams play 22 games per season, usually twice a week, at a few different sites. This is a busy week for the Cubs, who are scheduled for four games over eight days.
"Even though we're all adults, this brings the kid out in us," said Steen, 34, of Pasadena who has been playing adult baseball for 16 years. "It's like a vacation. For 2 1/2 hours, it's heaven. It's something to look forward to."
The Tiani brothers agreed. They're not trying to recapture their Little League days or any Arundel High glory. They're trying to achieve success now.
Jason Tiani just smiled when asked how long he planned to play.
"I'll play until my body says I can't do it anymore," the Severn resident said. "I just love the game and can't give it up."
He also feels fortunate to be sharing the time with his brother. They talk regularly about coming games and often find their way to batting cages to work on their hitting. The Tiani brothers also use the batting cages during the off-season to keep their skills sharp.
They know more now than when they were younger, Jason Tiani said. "It means more now."
The brothers have full-time jobs: Jason works in finance at a car dealership while Tony is a service writer at another one.
The game is their release, and they love having their mother there as much as ever.
"It's normal for her [to be there]," said Tony Tiani. "It's not normal if she isn't there."