August 14-16

Friday night on North Prince Street for game #2 with the Skeeters, on this night it was just about all in Sugar Land's favor. A four-run fifth and one more in the seventh were enough for a 5-3 Skeeters win. Offensive highlights were few for the Barnstormers, all of their runs scored on a three-run Anderson Feliz home run in the bottom of the seventh. Nate Reed started for the Barnstormers and suffered the loss. There was a special attraction booked for in-between innings and the postgame, that plus a fireworks show drew a crowd announced as the sixth-largest in franchise history. On Saturday Jenny and her mother were in town for the ballgame, the Stormers got back into the win column with a come-from-behind 10-6 decision. It didn't start well as the Skeeters scored three runs in the first, in the second inning a sacrifice fly from Yusuke Kajimoto and an Anderson Feliz RBI hit brought the Barnstormers within one. A six-run uprising in the fourth turned the game completely around. An RBI double by newcomer Derrick Pyles tied the score at 3-3, that was followed in quick order by a Kajimoto two-run single, a two-run Feliz home run and a solo shot off the bat of Kent Matthes. In the fifth Feliz delivered again, his two-RBI double extended the advantage to 10-3. Sugar Land got three back in the seventh but starting pitcher Chad Beck survived the early turbulence and picked up the win. On Sunday the series wrapped up in ninety-degree afternoon heat, I marked the occasion by staying inside in the air conditioning. August 16 is Jenny's birthday and since we didn't see each other on Sunday I had given her gift on Saturday. Jenny has modest tastes and she didn't ask for anything specific but she was happy with what she got (it was something she had hinted at back in the spring and probably thought I forgot about but I did not). Jenny and I have been together since the latter part of 2001 and she means the world to me, I can't imagine being without her. Take care, thanks for reading.