Friday night baseball west of the river in downtown York, the Revolution hosted the Gastonia Honey Hunters in the opener of a four-game series. This was a noteworthy occasion in that it marked the Hunters' first-ever appearance in York, the Revs were in Gastonia early in the season and again earlier in August but Gastonia did not play in York during the season's first half (the ALPB's regular season schedule is not balanced in that regard and it rarely is). This was my second time in York in nine days but on this night there were no weather issues, I actually got to see a game and it was another edition of the league's Theater Of The Bizarre. The visitors from North Carolina took an early 4-0 lead, in the bottom of the second Nellie Rodriguez got the Revs on the board with a solo home run. The Hunters added one in the third and four in the fourth to take a 9-1 advantage, in the bottom half Jack Kenley tripled and scored on Melky Mesa'a RBI double, Mesa would come home on Rodriguez' sacrifice fly drawing the Revolution to within six. Gastonia scored twice more in the fifth to go up 11-3, in the home fifth the Revs battled back with a seven-spot. Osmy Gregorio started it with a base hit, the next four batters all drew walks forcing home two runs making it 11-5. Mesa's sac fly scored run #6, after another walk reloaded the bases Josue Herrera followed with a grand slam to right-center bringing the Revs back to within one run at 11-10. At that point the offensive fireworks came to a screeching halt, neither team scored in any of the last four innings as Gastonia held the fort and won it 11-10. Starting pitcher Joey Lara (recently added by the Revs from the Empire League) worked into the fourth inning and suffered the loss. The rest of the weekend was quiet save for my usual lunch visit with Jenny, over in York the series continued with a day/night doubleheader on Saturday and a single game on Sunday which fell victim to the weather. Another storm system was moving north through the Atlantic Ocean, we were on the outskirts of it but Sunday was dreary and rainy all the same. Take care, thanks for reading.
