August 20-21

Here's the postmortem on Sunday night at the ballpark: the game was in the third inning at 11:15 when the rain and existing field conditions finally made it intolerable, play was halted and never resumed. Sugar Land does not play in Lancaster again in 2018 so the logical move is to make it up when the Stormers go to Texas over Labor Day weekend, at this point no decision has been made. The miserable conditions were long gone on Monday morning, in the evening I was in York as were the Barnstormers for the opener of a four-game series. The homestanding Revolution took a 1-0 lead in the first, Alexi Casilla walked and scored on Melky Mesa'a RBI hit. In the visiting second Ryan Casteel singled and took third on Trayvon Robinson's double, a wild pitch allowed Casteel to tie the game and Robinson touched home on a ground-ball double play to put the Stormers up 2-1. A Jimmy Paredes solo home run in the third gave the visitors a two-run lead but in the bottom half the Revs turned the game around emphatically. Back-to-back singles by Alonzo Harris and Casilla put runners on the corners, a wild pitch scored Harris before Telvin Nash's RBI plated Casilla to tie it 3-3. Wellington Dotel followed with a two-run shot to left-center to put the Revs up by two. Jared Mitchell and Ryan Dent kept the line moving with consecutive singles, they would both score on Harris' two-run single. The six-run salvo put the Revolution up 7-3, they would add single runs in the sixth (on a wild pitch) and seventh (Harris RBI single) to extend the lead to six. The Barnstormers added a run in the eighth on a (you guessed it) wild pitch, in the bottom half the Revs scored twice on an RBI hit from Dent and (believe it or not) ANOTHER wild pitch bringing the final to 11-4. A total of five runs in this game were scored via the WP, two for the Stormers and three for the Revs. James Pugliese was the winner in relief of starter Robert Carson, Barnstormer starter Joe Gardner suffered the loss. On Tuesday evening we had planned on a night of summer dek hockey but once again weather became an issue. There were storms all around us but by 6:00 we hadn't seen a drop, by 7:00 the skies were very dark. Most of the guys apparently assumed we weren't playing, each team only had three players and neither had a goaltender. Under the circumstances we decided to postpone the night which proved to be the right move, by 8:00 the rain had arrived and it was just as well we weren't there. The games were rescheduled for Thursday the 30th. Take care, thanks for reading.