June 1-3

The sixth month of 2018 began on a Friday with baseball on the calendar on North Prince Street. The Barnstormers continued their homestand with the opener of a weekend series with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs. There was rain in the forecast for the latter part of the evening (it's a weekend, why not?), on this night the Stormers took a 1-0 lead in the first when Darian Sandford walked and scored on a Blake Gailen sac fly. The Crabs posted single runs in the third and fourth to go up 2-1, in the home fifth Rico Noel was hit by the pitch and scored the tying run on Sandford's RBI single. The 2-2 deadlock lasted into the bottom of the eighth, with two out Joey Terdoslavich singled and Ryan Casteel was hit by a pitch. Trayvon Robinson followed with a double into the gap chasing home both runs to put the Stormers up 4-2. It began to rain as the Crabs batted in the ninth, SM put two men on base with two out but Matt Reynolds worked out of the jam to earn the save, Scott Shuman was the winner in relief of starter Joe Gardner. I walked out of the ballpark as soon as the game ended, on my way to the car the skies opened and it POURED. Had the game lasted two more minutes the game almost certainly would have been stopped, it's hard to imagine they could have continued for as hard as the rain was falling. There were showers in the forecast on Saturday, I was with Jenny and her mother for lunch. Jenny said she wanted to come into town despite the forecast since they had missed out on the last Saturday home date (that miserable night in May that I stayed home from as well). On this night the Crabs and Stormers hooked up for a doubleheader necessitated by an earlier rainout in Waldorf, game #1 started at 5:00. The plan was to stay for all of the opener and part of the second game depending on the weather, shortly after the first game started it began to cloud up. In the fourth inning DAMNED IF IT DIDN'T, we moved our lawn chairs into the concourse and stayed there for good. Joey Terdoslavich's solo home run in the second inning was the lone run in a 1-0 Barnstormer win, Jonathan Albaladejo went all the way for the shutout victory. The second game began around 7:30 or so (with the Stormers batting as the visitors since it was technically the Crabs' home game), five minutes after it started it went into a rain delay and we decided to call it a night. Saw on the internet where they eventually continued, the game finally finished around 10:30. There was one last shot of the wet stuff on Sunday afternoon but the game went as scheduled in my absence, the Stormers wrapped up the weekend sweep with a 6-5 win. Take care, thanks for reading.