September 1-3

The final one-third of 2019 began quietly on Sunday, the next day was the annual Labor Day holiday AKA The Last Day Of Summer. At the ballpark the Barnstormers hosted the Long Island Ducks in the opener of a four-game series. The game began at 5:00, a special early start due to the holiday which ended up being a good thing. There were dark clouds approaching from the west, in the middle of the fourth inning the umpires ordered the field covered just ahead of a hard storm that delayed the game for almost ninety minutes. The game finally wound down after 9:30, almost four-and-a-half-hours after it had started. The Stormers lost 6-2, the runs coming on a Josh Bell solo home run in the third and a Joe Terdoslavich RBI single in the fifth. John Anderson started and took the loss, his outing cut short at four innings thanks to the rain delay. On Tuesday morning Jenny was in Willow Street for a medical appointment, we got lunch to go and ate at her place. In the early evening I was Reservoir Park, we had our captains meeting for the fall season. If all goes as planned we could start the week of the 16th. There was a fundraiser carnival set up in the field next to the rink, I took a walk around the midway before the meeting started. I always enjoyed that sort of thing as a youngster but nowadays some of the rides wouldn't be the best idea anymore. When the meeting broke up I went over to the ballpark for what was left of the ballgame, when I arrived they were in the third inning. The Stormers had gone up 1-0 in the first on an Andrew Aplin home run but Long Island scored twice in the second and once in the fifth to lead 3-1. Back-to-back home runs by Josh Bell and Parker Morin drew the Stormers even in the sixth but in the seventh the Ducks responded with a three-spot and won it 6-3, Jonathan Albaladejo worked into the fateful seventh and suffered the loss. The game ended almost exactly at the same time as Monday's, the difference was it started two hours later and proceeded without delay. I know a lot of people who would take that any night of the week. Take care, thanks for reading.