May 12-14

Friday evening: made my first trip of the new baseball season across the river, the York Revolution hosted the Bridgeport Bluefish in a doubleheader. The Revs have been a member franchise in the Atlantic League since 2007, they and the Barnstormers are geographic rivals although I personally have never gotten into that. I have friends in both places and I enjoy the atmosphere in York just as much as in Lancaster, the only major difference is travel (one mile as opposed to twenty-eight). This series was supposed to start on Thursday but the weather didn't cooperate, on this night the double-dipper started at 5:00. There was rain in the forecast for later in the evening, it arrived as an annoying mist during the first game. The visiting Bluefish scored single runs in the second and third to lead 2-0, in the Revs fourth Isaias Tejeda singled and scored on Bryan Pounds' sac fly to make it 2-1. Bridgeport extended their advantage with a two-run sixth, in the seventh Tejeda hit a solo home run for York but that was it as the Bluefish took the opener 4-2. Victor Mateo (from the Atlanta Braves system) started for the Revolution and took the loss, he was followed in relief by former Texas Ranger property Joe Van Meter and ex-MLBer Julio DePaula. Game #2 didn't start until 8:15, I hung around for about two innings and headed home driving through a light but steady rain just about all the way. Saw on the internet where Bridgeport won the nightcap as well, with it all they weren't done until after 11:00. The dreary conditions were still around on Saturday when I visited with Jenny for lunch, on Sunday the sun was in evidence for the first time since Wednesday. A gradual warmup is forecast for the week ahead, temperatures are expected close to 90 (!!!!) by the weekend. Take care, thanks for reading.