June 6-7

Friday night at the ballpark on North Prince Street, the Barnstormers hosted the Camden Riversharks in the opener of a weekend series. In the Atlantic League roster turnover is to be expected, earlier in the week Blake Gailen left the club for an opportunity in the Mexican League. In addition several others on the roster are battling through nagging injuries which have handicapped the club in recent days. The Stormers lost three of four on the road during the week, on this night the struggles continued as the Sharks won easily 9-3. Camden scored three in the second, added five in the fourth and were never headed. Wilson Batista had two RBI (one on a single and the other on a sac fly). catcher Juan Apodaca (from the Tampa Bay Rays organization) contributed a run-scoring single. Dan Osterbrock worked into the fifth inning and took the loss. On Saturday we did our usual lunch in Quarryville, Jenny and her mother were along in the evening for game #2. The Stormers got back into the win column with a 6-4 victory. The Sharks scored first but the Stormers took the lead in the fourth on a Batista RBI hit and a Camden error. The visitors went up 3-2 in the sixth but the home team replied quickly with four in their half. Run-scoring hits by Batista and Casey Frawley and an RBI double from infielder Amos Ramon (from Winnipeg of the American Association) keyed the rally, a bases-loaded walk drawn by fellow infielder Yusuke Kajimoto (from Osaka, Japan) scored the last run. Pete Parise (former St. Louis Cardinal) won it in relief of Shunsuke Watanabe, Jason Urquidez saved it. As as usually the case there was a fireworks show after the game, as is usually the case we were gone before it ever started. Take care, thanks for reading.