Because baseball has no clock, these games sometimes happen. You can't completely relax with a big lead as last week a minor league team rallied from a 16 run deficit in the fifth to win the game. And even with a big lead you can't tell your players to make outs intentionally. The best you can do is to take bases one at a time.

I like the mercy rules in high school and youth ball; I guess the lightning was the baseball gods' way of being merciful.