June 28-29

Wednesday lunch with Jenny in Quarryville, in the evening we were back on North Prince Street for game #3 of the series with New Britain. The Barnstormers' roster carousel was spinning once again, it was announced before game time that Nate Reed and K.C. Hobson had been signed by the SF Giants organization. Stormers radio broadcaster Dave Collins joked that the 2017 Atlantic League All-Star Game should feature the league's All-Stars versus the Giants AA affiliate since there are a number of ex-ALPB players on that club including three from the Stormers (all of them acquired within the last few days). Once the game started the visiting Bees broke on top with two in the first, in the bottom half the Barnstormers replied in kind. Lasting Milledge drew a walk and advanced to third on Caleb Gindl's double, an RBI single from Garrett Weber scored Milledge with Gindl following close behind on a throwing error to tie the game 2-2. NB went back up with a single run in the second but once again it didn't hold, Vladimir Frias went yard in the bottom half the make it 3-3. In the fourth the Stormers took the lead for good, Anderson De La Rosa doubled, advanced to third on a Frias infield hit and scored on a sac fly by newcomer Drew Doty (a University Of Tampa product, Drew was in training camp with the club in April but didn't make the roster). The Stormers added a run in the fifth when Milledge singled and scored on a Sean Halton sac fly to make it 5-3. That would be the final score, Rommie Lewis started and picked up the win with Anthony Carter earning the save. On Thursday I had a dental appointment in the morning (there are better ways to start a day but I can't think of many that are worse), in the evening the clubs met for the fourth and final game of the series. On this night Barnstormer pitchers combined to allow just two runs and post fourteen strikeouts but it wasn't enough because the bats were silent. Single runs in the third and eighth for New Britain were all that the Bees needed, the lone Stormers run came on a Vladimir Frias home run in the seventh. Kevin Munson took the 2-1 loss in relief of starter Jarret Leverett. Take care, thanks for reading.