I see this is the forty-seventh entry in this blog for 2021, noteworthy only because it's early July and it surpasses the total for all of That Year Which Will Not Be Mentioned. Wednesday evening at the ballpark for game #2 with Lexington, on this night the Barnstormers trailed 8-0 in the fifth and never seriously threatened in a 16-7 loss to the visiting Legends. In the fifth inning Nick Shumpert doubled and scored on Cleuluis Rondon's sac fly, two more were added in the seventh on Blake Allemand's RBI single and a two-run double by Blake Gailen. In the ninth the Stormers put together another three-run inning with one scoring on an error, the second on a Devon Torrence groundout and the last on an RBI hit from LeDarious Clark. Starting pitcher Augie Sylk (former Kansas City Royals property) worked into the seventh inning and took the loss. On Thursday the clubs met in the rubber match and a completely different kind of game unfolded. A quick-hitting storm blew through around 5:45 which delayed the start from 6:30 until 7:10. Lexington took a 3-0 lead in their half of the third, in the bottom half the Stormers scored six runs thanks to an error, a hit batsman, six walks (three of them with the bases loaded) and an Anderson De La Rosa two-run single, the only base hit in the inning. In the fourth Anthony Peroni singled and scored on an error giving the Stormers a 7-3 lead, in the fifth Lexington scored four to tie the game 7-7. It stayed that way until the tenth, after the Legends took a one-run lead the Stormers tied it and then walked it off 10-8 on a two-run shot to right field by Blake Gailen. Former Texas Ranger property Francisco Mendoza started on the hill, Gabriel Moya picked up the win in relief. The ballclub stays home to host Gastonia on the weekend. Take care, thanks for reading.
