August 17-20

Sunday afternoon baseball in York as "that team from across the river" (as the Revs once referred to the Barnstormers) hosted Bridgeport in the finale of a weekend series. This was the Revolution's eighth late-afternoon start at home, I have been to all of them. On this day the Revs finished a three-game sweep with a 5-1 victory. The Bluefish got on the board in the first inning, Bryant Nelson's second-inning solo home run drew York even. A four-run Revs fourth inning broke the game open. Wilson Valdez's bases-loaded triple scored three runs, Valdez would score the final run on an Eric Patterson RBI double. Jorge Martinez was the winning pitcher with relief support from Ian Durham and Edward Paredes. On Monday my mother had a morning eye appointment, things are coming along but there is still a ways to go. On Tuesday night Marty and I made another trip west, the Barnstormers were in York for the teams' final regular season series. The Stormers won the opener on Monday, on this night the Revs evened the series. York took a first-inning lead on Bryant Nelson's RBI hit, the Barnstormers tied it in the sixth on a RBI single by Brett Carroll. In the bottom of the eighth Sean Smith tripled and scored on a Justin Greene single, the Stormers could not reply in the ninth as the Revs earned a tough 2-1 win. Beau Vaughan won it in relief of Logan Williamson, ex- MLBer Mark Hendrickson picked up the save. Chris Schwinden took the hard-luck loss for the Barnstormers. Jenny had a foot doctor appointment scheduled for Wednesday morning, we did our weekday lunch a day earlier than usual as a result. As I spent the evening at home the Stormers-Revs series finished in York, the Revolution won the game to finish the season series with a 13-7 advantage. Every year the clubs play for the Community Cup, this marks the second consecutive season York has won it and the fourth time overall (the Barnstormers won it in '07, '09, '11 and '12). Take care, thanks for reading