July 24

Saw in the newspaper where on Saturday night in Lancaster the BSers played a 15-11 game that took almost four hours, given the weather here of late that borders on cruel and unusual punishment. It was somewhat cooler on Sunday (if you consider temperatures in the 80s cooler), Jenny and Helen were along for the finale of the series with Binghamton. This was the third and final Sunday night home game of the season, the two home Sundays in August will be day games. We had some light rain before the game but it was nothing major, it probably felt very comfortable to those who were in it. After two straight wins the R-Phils fell hard on this night as the B-Mets left town with a 10-1 win. This was a "worse than it sounds" loss for the R-Phils, there were no offensive highlights to speak of until Terry Evens broke up the shutout with a ninth-inning home run. Starting pitcher J.C. Ramirez took the loss, Derrick Loop and Chris Kissock worked in relief. We started at 6:05 and wrapped it up three hours later, close to 5600 in attendance for "kids' day" activities including a pregame autograph session with the team. The homestand continues through Wednesday as the Altoona Curve comes to town, after that I'll be heading to New York State for a few days of R&R. Take care, thanks for reading.