July 20-26

The new week started very quietly with little going on Monday or Tuesday. Jenny was in town on business on Tuesday, in the afternoon she came to my place for supper. This was all arranged because she had to be at a local facility by 8:30 that evening for what was called a "sleep test". I had her there shortly after 8:00, at 10:00 Wednesday morning I picked her up for the trip home and our usual lunch date. In the evening I was at the ballpark on North Prince Street for the opening round of the annual local youth tournament. The city newspaper started its sponsorship of this tournament back in the 1940s, the "Midget" bracket (ages 14 to 16) has played its games at the stadium every year since the ballpark's opening in 2005. On Wednesday the top half of the quarterfinal bracket featured Hempfield over Strasburg/Willow Street (in a rematch of the 2014 title game) and Cocalico over Elizabethtown, the bottom half played on Thursday with Garden Spot defeating Manheim and Lititz eliminating Donegal. The semifinals were played on Friday, Cocalico and Lititz were victorious to set up the Sunday championship game. Saturday was uneventful except for lunch with Jenny, on Sunday I made the trip west for York for the 5:00 game at Santander Stadium. The Revolution hosted the Camden Riversharks in the finale of a three-game set, the Revs had won each of the first two in walkoff fashion. On this occasion the Sharks took an early 1-0 lead, York tied it on a solo home run by former Atlanta Brave property Mikey Reynolds. The Revs added a single run in the fourth on a Yeicok Calderon triple and an Andres Perez sac fly, in the fifth an Eric Patterson sac fly extended the lead to 3-1. Camden closed to within one in the seventh but a two-run home run by Perez in the eighth made it 5-2 Revs. The Riversharks scored one in the ninth and had the tying runs on base but ex-bigleaguer Tony Pena (Diamondbacks/White Sox) ended the rally and saved the 5-3 decision for starter Shawn Hill. The Revolution is in a stretch of 32-of-46 days on the road, the next "Santander Sunday" is on August 9. Take care, thanks for reading.