May 13-15

Friday dawned cool and rainy, in early afternoon it was announced that the ballgame at McCaskey was postponed due to wet grounds. In mid-afternoon the rain moved east, the sun broke out and it was apparent that the evening would be pleasant, after supper I headed west across the river for my first visit of the new season in York. The Revolution is celebrating its tenth year in the ALPB, they are doing a series of commemorative bobblehead figures of notable persons in the city's history. On this night the giveaway was a likeness of Revolutionary War figure Gilbert du Motier, best known as the Marquis de Lafayette. The ballpark in York underwent a name change in the off-season, what opened in 2007 as Sovereign Bank Stadium and later became Santander Stadium is now Peoples Bank Park (the new sponsor is headquartered in York). On this night the Sugar Land Skeeters were the opponent in the opener of a three-game series. The Revs took a 2-0 lead in the second, returnee James Simmons reached on a error and scored on an RBI double by ex-Barnstormer Keith Castillo, a base hit from Jason Repko (a 2013-14 Rev who has returned to York) scored Castillo with the second run. The Skeeters tied it in the fourth and put five on the board in the fifth, a two-run homer by returnee Telvin Nash in the bottom half brought the Revs back to within three at 7-4. Sugar Land got those two runs back in the sixth and went on to win 9-4, Beau Vaughan was the losing pitcher for the Revs in relief of starter Tony Pena. The organization did away with its 5:00 starts on Sundays so I'll be picking my spots on when I can get there, it will mostly be oddball weeknights and Fridays when the Barnstormers are on the road. Lunch with Jenny was about all that happened on Saturday, on Sunday we had three makeup street hockey games at the rink. When I arrived the local bike polo group was there, they have been using the rink on Wednesdays. They did not know we had games scheduled but things were amicable, they finished their activities in good order and we played hockey without delay. These were the games postponed from April 28, in the West the Hammerheads beat the Kings and the Killbots won over the Pub Dawgs, in a crossover Yorgo's defeated H&F Tire. Week #5 is now officially in the books, all teams have ten games played and four remaining. Take care, thanks for reading.