Saturday night at the ballpark for game #2 with the ALPB club By Any Other Name from Frederick, Maryland. The team actually began the season with no nickname, they were the "Frederick Baseball Club" and wore generic uniforms with question marks all over them (? indeed) while ballyhooing The Big Reveal in late June. Right now it appears the "Spire City" Ghost Hounds are sticking around for 2024 and beyond, with neighboring Hagerstown scheduled to join up as well the league may look a little different when April rolls around. On this night the visiting Hounds scored two runs each in the second, fourth, fifth and eighth innings, a six-run ninth ripped it wide open as SC won it going away 14-4. The Stormers scored twice in the third on an RBI triple by Melvin Mercedes and a wild pitch, single runs came in the fourth and eighth on run-scoring hits by Joseph Carpenter and Shawon Dunston JR. Berks County native Matt Swarmer (former big-leaguer with the Chicago Cubs) made his Barnstormer debut and took the decision. The series ended on Sunday afternoon with an unusual 5:00 start, the later game time allowed me to make an equally unusual Sunday appearance. Wilson Garcia's RBI hit in the first put the Stormers on the board, after Spire City scored twice in the second the Home Team tied it 2-2 on a Dunston double and Trace Loehr's RBI groundout. A four-run sixth put the Stormers in charge, Anthony Peroni drove in two of them with a double, Loehr had an RBI single and the fourth came home on a wild pitch. A solo home run to right by Dunston in the eighth put the ribbon on a 7-2 win, Brent Teller went six innings for the win with Zach Warren and Brandyn Sittinger in relief. The homestand continues on Tuesday with the Long Island Ducks visiting. Take care, thanks for reading.
