July 16-17

Little going on Monday outside of the morning pilgrimage to the mall, on Tuesday the Barnstormers played at home for the first time in nine days. The Atlantic League's War Of The Roses continued on this night with a visit from our friends from west of the river AKA the York Revolution. This was a scheduled doubleheader (as opposed to a makeup), game #1 got started shortly after 6:00. The Stormers went up 1-0 in the second when Grant Desme singled and scored on an error, the Revs matched it in the fifth on ex-Stormer Tyler Clark's RBI hit scoring Zach Wilson. In the home fifth the Basrnstormers took a 2-1 advantage, Darian Sandford doubled and scored on Blake Gailen's RBI fielders choice. In the top of the seventh (the last inning of regulation) the Revolution went ahead in stunning fashion, back-to-back home runs by Melky Mesa and Michael Burgess made it 3-2 for the visitors. In the bottom half the Stormers replied to tie the score, Rico Noel singled and advanced to third on an error, Gailen's sacrifice fly plated Noel to force extra innings. In the bottom of the ninth the Barnstormers walked it off when Tyler Bortnick reached on an error and scored the winner on Ryan Casteel's RBI single. Both starting pitchers (Jonathan Albaladejo for the Stormers, ex-SF Giant Jonathan Sanchez for the Revs) were long gone by then, Kevin Munson got the win with Junior Rincon suffering the loss. The game wasn't over until almost 9:00, with an announced game time of 9:40 for the nightcap I decided to call curfew and head home (a definite feeling of deja vu, the ballclub had a makeup doubleheader on July 3 that played out much the same way). I lived that life for thirty-five years and there are parts of it I miss greatly, there are other parts I don't miss in the least. As the night wore I noted via the Internet that they were still playing as the midnight hour approached (and that's one of the parts I don't miss at all). Take care, thanks for reading.