Those who regularly visit this blog (and I know I have an audience for which I'm very grateful) know that every year on August 16 I write about what Jenny means to me because this date is her birthday. Monday was The Big Day, she was spending it here in town babysitting at her friend's house. I took lunch to her and we spent some time together while we ate, it's never a problem because whenever I do the two older daughters always ask me if I can stay and visit them for awhile. The end of this calendar year will mark twenty years we've been together and we knew each other for close to ten years before that so no matter how you look at it it's been a long time, my world would be absolutely empty without her and that's a feeling I don't ever want to experience. On Tuesday night the Barnstormers returned home for the opener of a three-game set with the Long Island Ducks. This was actually the back end of a six-game series, the Stormers won two of three on The Island over the weekend. On this night the game stayed scoreless until the bottom of the third when Caleb Gindl doubled, took third on a flyout to right and scored on Blake Gailen's groundout. Alejandro De Aza kept the inning going with a two-base hit, Trayvon Robinson's RBI single made it 2-0. Kelly Dugan followed with another double (the third of the inning) scoring Trayvon to give the Stormers a three-run lead. Those three runs held up until the ninth when the Ducks put together a two-out rally of their own. One run had scored and there were runners on second and third, the batter hit a deep drive to left field that was run down by LeDarious Clark with a leaping catch to preserve a big 3-1 victory. The win is Zach Smith's first as a professional, he went five innings with bullpen support (one inning each) from Garrett Granitz, Donald Goodson, Gabriel Moya and Scott Shuman picking up the save. The series is supposed to continue on Wednesday but the forecast is not encouraging, the remnants of a tropical storm are moving up the coast and Wednesday is expected to be very wet. As they used to say on television: Stay Tuned. Take care, thanks for reading.
