The new week began with comfortable temperatures and low humidity, on Tuesday there was a late-afternoon rainstorm which delayed the start of the ballgame on North Prince Street. Staten Island (one of the five boroughs of New York City) had a team in affiliated baseball from 1999 to 2019, the franchise was eliminated when MiLB was reorganized in 2021. SI's new ALPB club is known as the FerryHawks, on this night they were making their first-ever appearance in Lancaster. The pregame rain delayed the 6:30 start to 7:20, after the Hawks took a 2-0 lead in the first the Barnstormers replied on an RBI hit by Andretty Cordero. The teams traded runs in the fourth with the Stormers scoring on a Colton Shaver home run. In the fifth LeDarious Clark singled and scored on Kelly Dugan's two-run home run giving the Stormers a 4-3 lead. In the visiting seventh the game turned on a dime, the FerryHawks took advantage of two two-out errors to score three runs, they would hold that 6-4 lead to the very end. Oscar De La Cruz started for the Stormers but did not figure in the decision, Tyler Suellentrop took the loss in relief. On Wednesday there were no weather issues whatsoever, there was brilliant sunshine when I was with Jenny for lunch and later in the day at the ballpark. On this night the visitors from The Big Apple took a 1-0 lead in the first, in the home second Jake Hoover doubled and scored on Devon Torrence's RBI single to tie the game. The Hawks scored single runs in the third, fourth and fifth to go up by three, Melvin Mercedes' solo home run in the bottom of the fifth brought the Stormers to within 4-2. In the eighth Cordero singled and touched home on an RBI double by Shaver but the Stormers came no closer, the final was 4-3 Staten Island. Augie Sylk started and took the decision. The series wraps up on Thursday but I will undoubtedly be absent, the Jr. Tornado is scheduled for a home game at McCaskey. Take care, thanks for reading.
