Back at the ballpark on Thursday night for the final game of the series with High Point. The Barnstormers have an insanely busy home schedule in July, this was the eleventh of twenty overall and the eighth of fourteen on the current homestand. As expected there was fallout from the postgame incident on Wednesday, the league assigned a completely different umpiring crew just for this game. It's not an unprecedented move and the hope is obviously to avoid any carryover. On this night the Stormers won convincingly and not entirely without controversy. In the first Shawon Dunston walked and scored on Andretty Cordero's RBI groundout, the lead was extended to 2-0 in the third when Dunston singled and touched home on an RBI double by Melvin Mercedes. In the fourth back-to-back doubles by Jake Hoover and Trace Loehr added a third run, Anthony Peroni's RBI single scored Loehr putting the Stormers up 4-0. In the sixth the game was torn wide open, the Stormers sent eleven batters to the plate and scored six runs. Loehr started it with a single, Peroni drew a walk and Devon Torrence reached on a fielders choice. Loehr scored from third on a wild pitch, after Dunston was retired consecutive walks to Mercedes and Cordero loaded the bases with two out. Trayvon Robinson was next and he made no mistake with a grand-slam home run to right-center, Anderson Feliz followed with a solo shot to just about the same spot putting the Stormers up 10-0. Hoover batted next and took the first pitch in the upper left arm, warnings were immediately issued to both dugouts by the plate umpire. In the seventh the visitors from North Carolina got on the board making it 10-1. The Stormers got it back after the stretch, Dunston reached on a fielders choice and scored on Cordero's RBI hit. The Rockers scored one last run in the eighth, during the inning an unintentional hit batsman resulted in an ejection since warnings had been issued but nothing transpired any further. The final score was 11-2, Nile Ball went six innings for the win with Erik Cha, Cole Aker and Bret Clarke working in relief. The long homestand continues on the weekend with a visit from the Charleston Dirty Birds (formerly the West Virginia Power). Take care, thanks for reading.
