July 22-23

Spent some time with Jenny at her place on Saturday morning, she's still having fatigue and discomfort from the surgery (which is to be expected). After our usual lunch visit I came back to town and from there to Don's house in Landisville. He was just back from vacation, our meeting was to assemble the teams for our Summer draft league at the rink. We set it up exactly as we had it in 2016: four teams playing a nine-game schedule, we start on Tuesday the 25th and finish in August on the 22nd. The summer season is all about fun and recreation, there are no playoffs or championship involved. It's an opportunity for the participants to play with different people of various skill levels and maybe learn a little bit from each other. We had sixty-three individuals sign up, as a result three of the teams have sixteen players and the fourth has fifteen. We'll undoubtedly have some late additions and there are always a few who sign up to play but never show up, those scenarios are dealt with as they occur. I was finally back home by 3:30 or so, in the evening I was at the ballpark for game #2 with Long Island. Under usual conditions Jenny and Helen would have been with me but that was obviously not the case on this night. Jenny wanted to come but common sense prevailed, hopefully she's good to go for the next Saturday home date. They really didn't miss much, the Barnstormers trailed almost from the outset and lost 5-1. Long Island was up 4-0 in the sixth when Sean Halton doubled and scored on Cole Garner's RBI single, the Stormers managed only one other hit all night long. Rommie Lewis got the start and worked six innings in taking the loss. On Sunday I stayed indoors and out of the heat, at the ballpark the Stormers took the rubber game of the series 7-2. The ballclub hits the road for a week, they return home on Monday the 31st. Take care, thanks for reading.