August 24-25

Saturday lunch with Jenny and her mother, in the evening I was at the ballpark. The Sugar Land Skeeters were in town for the weekend, the Stormers won the opener on Friday but on this night they never held a lead. The visitors from Texas went up 1-0 in the first before Caleb Gindl went yard in the bottom half to tie the score. In the fifth Sugar Land reclaimed the lead, Joey Terdoslavich's solo shot in the sixth pulled the Stormers even yet again. The Sleeters went up 3-2 in the eighth and added an insurance run in the ninth, in the bottom half Greg Golson's RBI hit scored Darian Sandford to make it 4-3 but the rally went no further. Jonathan Albaladejo started for the Stormers and suffered the loss. On Sunday the clubs met for a rare 5:00 start and it reminded me of a Sunday in August of 2018 when the same clubs met for a 5:00 game, that day turned into a weather-plagued debacle that left a bad taste in everybody's mouth. On this day there were no such issues, since it wasn't a 1:00 game Jenny and Helen elected to attend on this day as opposed to Saturday. The Barnstormers drew first blood in the third on Devon Torrence's RBI single, after the Skeeters evened it in the fourth Michael Martinez's solo home run in the bottom half restored the Stormers' one-run lead. Sugar Land responded quickly with a run in the fifth to even it 2-2, in the seventh inning the game fell apart. Five Skeeter runs put the game out of reach at 7-2, Connor Overton worked into the seventh inning and took the loss. The Stormers return home for a series with New Britain on Friday the 30th. Take care, thanks for reading.