Saturday night: back at the ballpark for Revs/Stormers Round II, the Barnstormers rebounded from the lopsided Friday game with a tough extra-inning win. This was one of those wacky games that crop up in the Atlantic League on occasion and it started much like Friday's game as the visitors from West Of The River took a quick 4-0 lead in the first inning. By the fourth inning it was 6-3 Revs, the Stormers put four on the board in the fifth to forge ahead 7-6. The Revolution tallied single runs in the sixth and seventh to go up 8-7, in the bottom of the ninth the Stormers forced extra innings on a game-tying base hit by returnee Melvin Mercedes. The Revs scored twice in the top of the tenth but the Stormers responded with three in their half to ultimately prevail 11-10, the tying and winning runs scored on a base hit from ex-Washington Nationals property Anthony Peroni. Offensive contributions for the Revs included returnee Carlos Franco with a home run and two RBI, fellow veteran Wellington Dotel had four hits and two RBI, former Yankee farmhand Rashad Crawford went yard twice and had three ribbies. For the Stormers ex-Texas Ranger property LeDarious Clark had a big night with a double, two longballs and three RBI, one-time AZ Diamondback farmhand Kelly Dugan had a two-run double. As you might guess the starting pitchers were long-gone by the time the game ended, Yoel Espinal (Texas) was the winner and Bubby Rossman (LA Dodgers) suffered the loss. The series wrapped up in the afternoon heat on Sunday, the Stormers won 12-11 (!!!) to take the series two games to one. I spent the afternoon in the heat of Lions Park in Rothsville, after a week off for the holiday we were back for street hockey week #5. On this day (and for a second consecutive week of play) the four games were split across the board. Ephrata and Township traded regulation wins, Warwick and Hillside split with Hillside's win coming via OT shootout. We had planned to play one of the games postponed on May 9 but with temperatures in the 90s we decided to reset it for the 27th (when these particular matchups happen again) and hope for less-oppressive heat on that day. Nobody complained about it in the least, by the time the day was over everyone was wiped out just having played twice. Take care, thanks for reading.
