September 8-9

Overnight into Saturday the weather changed markedly, the day began cloudy and breezy with much cooler temperatures. At the football game on Friday it had been much warmer and there was virtually no wind at all, I was continually wiping my eyeglasses because the lenses were fogging up from watching the game through my binoculars (it's how I identify the players, I could never work a football game any other way). On this day there would have been no such issues, daytime highs never got out of the 60s. Had lunch with Jenny and her mother in the morning, later in the day we were all at the ballpark. The Barnstormers began a series with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs on Friday with a 4-3 win, on this night the clubs played a doubleheader. The last time the Stormers were in Waldorf two games were lost to weather, they were reset as back-to-back doubledips in Lancaster on September 8 and 9. We were sitting on the hill in left field as usual, about fifteen minutes before game time it began to rain lightly. We moved into the grandstand under the roof and stayed there for the duration, despite the rain the first game started on time at 5:00. The Stormers broke on top early, in the first Blake Gailen reached on a fielders choice groundout and scored on Ryan Casteel's two-run home run. In the fifth back-to-back singles by Gailen and Casteel put runners on the corners, Trayvon Robinson's sac fly RBI plated Gailen to make it 3-0. K.C. Hobson's solo home run in the sixth wrapped up the scoring, Nate Reed worked six innings for the 4-0 win with Huascar Brazoban providing last-inning relief. The second game didn't start until after 8:00, with the rainy conditions we decided not to stay much longer. Saw online where game #2 wasn't over until after 11:00, the Blue Crabs earned a split with a 6-5 win. The rain stayed around in earnest into Sunday, the afternoon doubleheader never got started. Since both teams had an off-day on Monday the games were reset for that day at 11:00. Take care, thanks for reading.