Saturday morning lunch with Jenny and her mother, there were thunderstorms forecast and they decided to be on the safe side and stay home from the ballgame. I told them I agreed with their decision since they don't live around town (if it's rained out I only have one mile to get home, they would have fourteen) and as it happened they were 100% right. There was a strong storm around 4:00 or so, at 5:30 I went over to the ballpark where the game against Charleston was still on. It finally got underway at 6:55 and those in attendance got to see what I call an "Atlantic League Special". In the home second new addition Tyler Hill (former York Revs catcher filling the departed Colton Shaver's roster spot) singled ahead of consecutive walks to Trace Loehr and Devon Torrence, Shawon Dunston's sac fly scored Hill with the night's first run. The visiting "Dirty Birds" (quotation marks intended) tied it in the fourth before the Stormers took the lead back in the bottom half. Walks to Loehr and Torrence and a two-run triple by Dunston made it 3-1, Shawon would score on a passed ball putting the Stormers up by three. In the home fifth four more runs crossed the plate, singles by Hill and Anthony Peroni and a walk to Loehr loaded the bases. Hill raced home on another passed ball, Torrence walked to reload the bases and Dunston followed with a single scoring Peroni making it 6-1. Consecutive sac flies from Melvin Mercedes and Andretty Cordero added the last two runs, after five innings the Stormers led 8-1. At this point we officially entered Bizarro-Land, the rains returned and brought a deluge of scoring along with it. Charleston tallied six times in the top of the sixth to close to within one run, in the bottom half the Stormers saw those six runs and raised it two more. Singles by Hill and Peroni and a walk to Loehr loaded the bases with one out (sound familiar?), Hill scored on a wild pitch and Torrence walked to reload the bases (this is NOT a recording). Dunston singled to score Peroni, Merecedes followed with a double chasing home Loehr and Torrence making it 12-7. After Cordero was retired Dunston trotted home on another wild pitch, Trayvon Robinson's base hit scored Mercedes with the inning's sixth run. Anderson Feliz singled and Hill was hit by the pitch to load the bases (again), consecutive walks to Peroni and Loehr forced home two more making it 16-7. For the inning the teams combined for fourteen runs on ten hits, six walks, an error, a hit batsman and a wild pitch. The madness came to a sudden end in the top of the seventh, after one batter the umpires called play and had the field covered, the game was officially called after the required thirty-minute wait. Cameron Gann started and worked into the sixth inning for the win with relief from Cole Aker and Chase Johnson. The rain moved on overnight into Sunday, in the evening I took my car to the service center for that water pump installation they had recommended in June. Take care, thanks for reading.
