August 15-16

Friday night baseball on North Prince Street as the Barnstormers hosted Southern Maryland in the first game of the Blue Crabs' final regular season visit. The Stormers' offensive struggles were magnified on this night as they could manage just three base hits. Cole Garner hit a solo home run in the first inning and Ben Francisco went yard with the bases empty in the ninth but in-between it was all Crabs as they won it 7-2, Cory Wade was the losing pitcher. Saturday was a red-letter day on the calendar, it's was Jenny's birthday. I was with her for morning lunch, in the afternoon she and her mother came back to town for the evening's ballgame. My mother gave Jenny a pack of ice cream bars and I got her a music CD she had wanted (modest gifts but then again Jenny has modest tastes). At the ballpark it was another frustrating night for the homeboys as the Stormers suffered a fourth consecutive loss on the homestand. It started well enough with an Andrew Clark two-run homer in the first, Gabe Jacobo's RBI hit in the third made it 3-0. The Blue Crabs got on the board in the fourth and tied it in the fifth but Brett Carroll's double in the home fifth gave the Barnstormers a 4-3 lead. SM tied the game in the eighth and took a 5-4 lead in the ninth, in the bottom of the ninth the Stormers loaded the bases with one out but could only manage the tying run on Carroll's RBI groundout. In extra innings the Blue Crabs pushed across two runs and won the game 7-5, Ross Peeples was the pitcher of record. Both Friday and Saturday featured postgame fireworks shows but needless to say we never saw them, Jenny is no more a fan of them than I am (if you've seen one you've seen them all). Take care, thanks for reading.