August 16-17

Thursday, August 16: Jenny's birthday. This was the first time since I've known her that she wasn't excited about her birthday, this year it's one of those milestones with a certain stigma attached. I told her it's no big deal, I turned that age once and I survived so there's no reason to think she won't. On this day she and her mother were along for the ballgame as the R-Phils wrapped up the series with Trenton. At the ballpark I work most closely with our PR/media director Rico Scarcella, video director Andy Kauffman, music/sound effects man Ben Smith and PR/media intern Matt Spezialetti. The guys got together and made sure Jenny had a day to remember, in addition to her gifts they arranged for Darin Ruf to come into the stands before the game and autograph a baseball for her. For a birthday she was dreading it turned into one that will undoubtedly be very memorable. In the game itself the boys lost to Trenton by the unlikely count of 14-12. The sixth inning alone took almost an hour to play, the Thunder scored seven runs in the top half before the R-Phils responded with six of their own. Offensive highlights included Cody Asche with three hits and four RBI, D'Arby Myers had five hits and knocked in three runs, Tommy Joseph hit a solo home run and Miguel Abreu had an RBI hit. Brody Colvin started and took the loss. The game wound down at 10:30, as 8600 stayed for fireworks the ladies and I hit the road. The ballclub plays their next six on the road, we're back home on the 23rd. On Friday evening the York Revolution was at home, since Saturday was going to be busy I wasn't going to drive there myself but Dick Myers called in the afternoon and asked if I wanted to ride along with him. As it turned out we should have stayed in Lancaster, the game never started as rain moved into the area and forced a postponement. Take care, thanks for reading.