Friday night on North Prince Street, the Barnstormers continued their homestand with a visit from our friends in York. These clubs are currently the second and third-oldest franchises in the Atlantic League, the Stormers started in 2005 and the Revs opened up shop two years later. In the opener on Friday the Barnstormers took a 2-0 lead in the second on Joseph Carpenter's two-run single, the lead was extended in the fourth on an RBI single by Jack Conley who would score later on an error making it 4-0. Jhon Nunez got the Revs on the board in the fifth with an RBI hit, in the bottom half a solo home run by Trace Loehr and an Ariel Sandoval RBI double upped the Stormer lead to 6-1. In the ninth the Revs made it close on Richard Urena's run-scoring hit and a Trey Martin solo home run but the Stormers held on for the 6-3 win, starters Jacob Lemoine (win) and Denson Hull (loss) were the pitchers of record. There were showers in the forecast for Saturday, Jenny and her mother elected to stay home and in retrospect they made the right choice. The rain arrived in the middle innings, it was never enough to stop the game but just enough to be a general nuisance. The visitors from the White Rose City went ahead in the first on a Jacob Rhinesmith RBI double, Nellie Rodriguez went yard in the second to give the Revolution a 2-0 lead. In the home half the Barnstormers erupted for six runs on a Revs error, Trace Loehr's RBI single, a two-run double by Andretty Cordero and Kelly Dugan's two-run home run over the picnic tents in right field. The Revs got one back in the third on Richard Urena's RBI groundout, the Stormers matched it in their half on a run-scoring single from Yeison Coca. It stayed 7-3 until the seventh, Ryan January's solo home run accounted for the last Revs score of the evening. The Stormers scored three times in the bottom half on Jake Hoover's two-run double and another Rev error, Trayvon Robinson's two-run shot into the right-field picnic pavilion in the eighth put the wraps on a 12-4 Stormer win. Brent Teller started and won for the Barnstormers, Tom Sutera took the loss for the Revolution. The series concluded with a day game and a Revs win on Sunday, I spent the morning in Rothsville at Lions Park. On this day Warwick beat Ephrata and Hillside won via shootout over Township, these matchups were rained out the first time around on April 30. No games on the 28th for the holiday weekend, we're back in Rothsville on June 4. Take care, thanks for reading.
