July 17-20

Not much going on Monday or Tuesday save for the morning rounds, on Wednesday Jenny and her mother were in town. Several months ago Jenny had an MRI which revealed the need for a surgical procedure, I won't go into details except to say that it is something reasonably typical for a woman in her mid-40s (Jenny was born in 1972). I was with her for a while in the morning at the hospital before they took her in, the procedure was scheduled for 11:30. After supper I went back to see how she was doing, Helen told me they didn't get started until after 1:00 and Jenny had only gotten out of recovery and into her room about an hour before I arrived. I only stayed for about forty-five minutes, Jenny was completely out of it and in obvious need of sleep. She knew I was there because we talked but when I went back on Thursday morning she unsurprisingly had no recollection of me being there the night before. They were in the midst of getting her discharge in order, we left the hospital at 12:15 and immediately headed to her house so she could get some rest in her own bed. In late afternoon I made the drive west across the Susquehanna River for the evening's ballgame in York. I texted Jenny to see what was happening, she was awake but she had slept most of the day and was planning to go back to bed after her supper. The game itself was over almost as quickly as it started, the Revoultion scored in each of the first four innings and routed the Sugar Land Skeeters 11-2. In the first Travis Witherspoon singled and scored on Alexi Casilla's RBI double, a sac fly by Michael Burgess plated Casilla to make it 2-0. Jared Mitchell's solo home run in the second extended the lead to three, in the third the Revs added four more. Casilla started the inning with a triple, Isaias Tejeda followed with an RBI double. Luis Cruz reached on a fielders choice, Mitchell doubled and a two-run single from ex-Tampa Bay property Dayron Varona upped the lead to six. Ryan Dent's RBI single scored Varona to make it 7-0. The onslaught continued in the fourth when Casilla singled, Burgess got a base hit and Cruz chased them both home with an RBI triple. Mitchell followed with a double scoring Cruz to make it 10-0. The Revs' final run came on a solo home run by Tejeda in the the sixth, the Skeeters broke the shutout with two in the ninth but at that point the issue had been long decided. Victor Mateo worked six innings on a steamy 97-degree night for the win, he was supported for an inning each by Luke Westphal, Curtis Partch and former Texas Rangers property Joe Van Meter. As it stands I won't be back in York until late August, between now and then most of their home dates coincide with games here in Lancaster. Take care, thanks for reading.