September 2-3

Jenny was in town for a Wednesday morning appointment, it was a followup to the sleep test she had in July. I took her home and we did our usual midweek lunch. In the evening the Barnstormers opened their homestand with that makeup doubleheader against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs. The Crabs were in town for a series in early May, this was their first time back since then. In the Atlantic League doubleheader games are seven innings as opposed to the regulation nine, that is the case throughout the affiliated minor leagues as well. The night got underway at 6:00, the Stormers scored in the first inning on a Kent Matthes sac fly RBI. The Crabs tied it in the third but a Charlie Cutler sac fly in the fourth broke the deadlock, Jerry Owens' RBI single made it 3-1 Barnstormers. SM got one back in the fifth but that would be all as the Stormers took the opener 4-2, Daniel Moskos won it with Marcus Walden picking up the save. Despite the shorter game in terms of innings it still took until 8:30 for the opener to be completed. The nightcap got started at 9:10, I watched the first two innings and called it a night. Saw on the Internet where the Barnstormers completed the sweep, they trailed 4-0 in the fourth but rallied back to win 5-4. The second game ended five hours and fifteen minutes after the opener had started, I know how that feels because I once lived that life. The series ended with a single game on Thursday night but I was not there, we had our fall season street hockey meeting at the rink. There were about nine teams represented but there are always those who never attend but get in anyway. We would like to start the week of September 14, we'll see how it pans out. Take care, thanks for reading.