Jenny was in town on Tuesday morning for a followup appointment on her surgery, according to the doctor everything looks great and they couldn't be more pleased with the healing. The access van brought her and Helen into town, I took them home and we did our midweek lunch a day early. In the evening we were at the rink for night #3 of summer hockey, the games featured Blue vs Gold and Orange vs Green. Those matchups happen again on the 10th and 22nd (the last night of the season). On Wednesday night we were back at the ballpark, the Stormers hosted New Britain in the rubber game of the three-game series. Over the weekend the Seattle Mariners had signed Barnstormers pitcher Bryan Evans, on this night the "Prince Street to MiLB" pipeline was in motion once again as Rico Noel got the call from the Houston Astros. He becomes the eleventh member of the ballclub to return to affiliated ball in 2017 which is impressive no matter how you view it. On this night the Stormers came out quickly with a three-spot in the first inning. Beau Amaral started it with a single and Trayvon Robinson reached on an error, Cole Garner's RBI hit plated Amaral. Sean Halton followed with a two-run single scoring Robinson and Garner to put the Stormers up 3-0. In the third the visiting Bees scored twice, they added three in the seventh to move ahead 5-3. In the home eighth the Barnstormers mounted the winning rally. Garner doubled to start the inning, Steve Clevenger walked and Garrett Weber's RBI single scored Garner to make it 5-4. Nate Coronado singled to score Clevenger with the tying run, one batter later Lastings Milledge reached on an error to load the bases. Amaral came to bat and watched as a wild pitch scored Weber from third with the lead run. Anthony Carter worked a perfect ninth to earn the save, R.J. Hively was the winning pitcher in relief of recently-added starter Joe Gardner. Gardner pitched for the Stormers in 2014, '15 and '16, he was signed as a free agent and started in Evans' spot in the rotation. The homestand continues with the Sugar Land Skeeters visiting over the weekend. Take care, thanks for reading.
