Back at the ballpark on Wednesday night for game #2 with Southern Maryland. On this night the Barnstormers tallied in the opening inning, Shawon Dunston drew a walk and touched home on Andretty Cordero's RBI hit. The visiting Blue Crabs pinched back with a tying run in the second, they took the lead in the fourth and added two more in the fourth and one in the fifth to lead 5-1. The Stormers climbed back into it with a run in the seventh, Jacob Barfield doubled and scored on Ariel Sandoval's base hit. In the eighth Melvin Mercedes doubled and came home on a Cordero RBI groundout but an SM insurance run in the ninth ended the scoring as the Crabs took it 6-3. Cameron Gann started for the Barnstormers and took the loss. During the first half of the season the Blue Crabs were a juggernaut, they won the first-half division title with a mark of 48-18 and thus far in 2022 they had defeated the Stormers eleven consecutive games. On Thursday night they were finally halted but it took intervention from Mother Nature to do it. There was a quick-moving storm system approaching from the west, despite the forecast and the dark clouds the game started right on time at 6:30. After the Crabs scored three times in the first inning the umpires called time and had the field covered although the rain had not yet started. It proved to be the right call, the tarp was no sooner down and secured before the winds kicked up and the skies opened. After about thirty minutes of absolute deluge the field was rendered unplayable, the game was called and reset as part of a doubleheader on September 17. The Stormers started a weeklong road trip on Friday, Saturday lunch with Jenny and her mother was about all that happened all weekend. In August the ballclub has only twelve home dates compared to the just-completed twenty-home-date July marathon. Take care, thanks for reading.
