Things that make you wonder: the Barnstormers played three midweek games at Long Island and won all three, this coming exactly one week after they were torpedoed in three games at home by the same opponent (YOU figure it out). On Friday the Spire City Ghost Hounds were back in town, the first order of business was the completion of that suspended game from July 9. The visitors from Frederick, MD held a 3-0 lead in the fourth inning when the rains came, on this day play resumed from that point at 3:15. The Hounds added onto that lead and were never caught, the final score was 8-4. The Stormers scored in the fifth on a Jack Conley sacrifice fly, an Ariel Sandoval RBI hit in the sixth and Wilson Garcia's two-run home run in the eighth. Bret Clarke had started the game on Sunday and continued on this day since he was on regular rest, he pitched eight innings the hard way and suffered the loss. The game wound down at 5:00, it was announced that the scheduled game would be a seven-inning game beginning at its advertised time of 6:30. Most of those in attendance elected to stay in the ballpark, I had a rare supper there since it happened to be that time of day. In the regular game Spire City once again took an early 3-0 lead, the Barnstormers got two of them back in the third on Andretty Cordero's two-run double. A solo home run by Garcia tied the game in the fourth but the Hounds went back up by one in the fifth and made it stand up for a 4-3 win. Spencer Johnston started and went six innings, Mike Adams finished it with a scoreless seventh. The game only took an hour and forty-five minutes, by 8:15 the night was over and the sun was still up. Take care, thanks for reading.
