May 23-24

Wednesday morning: Jenny was in Willow Street for a medical appointment, the access van brought her there and I took her home. On the way we made a detour to pick up our usual lunch to go since the place we frequent was less than a mile away from the doctor's office. In the evening I was at the ballpark on North Prince Street for the latest chapter in The War Of The Roses, Atlantic League version. The Barnstormers defeated the Revolution in the opener on Tuesday, on this night they would play deep into the evening before the matter was resolved. The Stormers took a quick 2-0 lead in the first, Blake Gailen singled and scored on a two-run shot over the tents in right field by Joey Terdoslavich. In the third the Revs got on the board, Rubi Silva singled and scored on Wellington Dotel's RBI hit to make it 2-1. In the home fourth Terdoslavich singled and came home on a Ryan Casteel RBI single to put the Stormers up 3-1. That lead stood up until the eighth when the Revs put together a two-out rally, former SF Giants property Jose Cuevas doubled and scored on Luis Cruz's RBI triple, Ryan Dent followed with a single up the middle scoring Cruz with the tying run. By then it was almost 9:45 and I decided to call my personal curfew (one has that choice as a spectator, I lived on the other side of it for thirty-five years so I know how it feels). The game finally ended in the twelfth inning at 11:15, the Stormers prevailed 4-3 when Rico Noel doubled and scored on Gailen's two-out game-winning single. The starting pitchers (Dominic Severino for the Revs, ex-Oriole Steve Johnson for the Stormers) were needless to say long gone by then, ex-Miami Marlin property Jared Lakind was the winning pitcher with former big-leaguer Tyler Cravy (Milwaukee in 2015 and '16) taking the loss. On Thursday the series concluded with an 11:00 morning game from which I was absent (that's another thing I learned when I was in the business: if you ever want to guarantee a long game, extra innings, a rain delay or any combination thereof all you have to do is schedule an early start for the next day. It NEVER fails). In the evening we were at the rink for four games of dek hockey, Gold beat Green in the Draft game. In the Club Division the Pub Dawgs beat the Hammerheads via shootout, the Owls vanquished the misfits and the Riot downed the Kings. Take care, thanks for reading.