August 12-13

Saturday morning in Quarryville for lunch with Jenny, in the evening we were at the ballpark. All day long they were calling for a chance of thunderstorms, we went over to the ballpark for the 5:30 gate opening and the rain started just as we were going in. I told Jenny and Helen that we would walk as far as the end of the concourse on the third-base side and wait it out, that's where I usually sit when I'm there and the ushers know me so it wouldn't be a problem. The grounds crew knew what was coming, the tarp was on the field before the rain ever started. With it all the game got underway an hour and fifteen minutes past the scheduled start time, once it did the Somerset Patriots scored single runs in the first and third. The Barnstormers posted three in their half of the third, Josh Bell and Nate Coronado started it with back-to-back walks before Anderson De La Rosa reached on an error, Bell scoring on the miscue to make it 2-1. Beau Amaral's RBI groundout plated Coronado to tie the game, Cole Garner's base hit cashed in De La Rosa to put the Stormers up 3-2. The lead was extended in the fourth when Steve Clevenger singled and Garrett Weber doubled him to third, Clevenger scored on Bell's RBI groundout and Coronado followed with a two-run home run to make it 6-2. The Pats got one back in the fifth but the Barnstormers matched it in the sixth on a Weber triple and a sac fly RBI by Coronado. Sean Halton's two-run home run in the seventh made it 9-3, in the eighth Amaral doubled and scored on another Garner RBI hit to put the Stormers up by seven. Somerset scored three innocuous runs in the ninth to bring the final to 10-6, Rommie Lewis started on the mound and went five innings for the win. The series wrapped up on Sunday in the typical afternoon heat, the Patriots victorious to take three of the four games in the series. The Barnstormers travel to Southern Maryland on Monday the 14th for that long-awaited makeup game, they come back home to host Bridgeport from the 15th to the 17th. Take care, thanks for reading.