The baseball club at McCaskey started its season with a non-league road win on the 27th, on the following Wednesday league play began at home against Manheim Township. A storm system moved through from the west in early afternoon, for a while it looked like the game might be in jeopardy. At 4:30 (two hours before game time) I got word that we were still on, I went over to the ballfield shortly after 5:00. Tyler Horst is back as the program's head coach, when I saw him I said that needless to say it felt damn good to be back. The local newspaper recently did a season preview story around the fact that since there was no season in 2020 it is difficult to make any predictions, the last time anyone played the current seniors were sophomores. The writer forecasted Township to be among the favorites in our division and on this night MT showed it, they scored twice in each of the first two innings and won it going away 8-0. The Red Tornado had a baserunner in each inning but recorded only two base hits and could never gain any momentum. A.J. De Los Santos started on the mound and worked into the fourth inning, he was followed by Albert Rosario, Xavian Padilla, Kolby Esh and Alex Ruiz. It was an unusually warm night for late March, game time temperatures were in the low-60s with almost no wind. There was some light mist falling during the later innings, not more than two minutes after the game ended it opened up and poured. The rain stopped almost as quickly as it started, after I had everything packed away upstairs my walk to the car was no problem at all. I was home right around 9:00 which gave me plenty of time to get a shower, grab a snack and write this blog post. The next home game is on April 7 against Warwick. Take care, thanks for reading.
