Saturday night baseball on North Prince Street, the Barnstormers hosted the Gastonia Honey Hunters in game #2 of the weekend series. The Stormers had lost on Friday in my absence, on this night they evened the series with a come-from-behind win. The visitors from the Tar Heel State carried a 2-0 advantage into the bottom of the fourth, Wilson Garcia reached on an error and scored on Trayon Robinson's two-out double putting the Stormers on the board at 2-1. Andretty Cordero's solo home run in the sixth tied the game at 2-2, a four-run Stormer seventh gave the club all the insurance it would need. Chris Proctor (back from an extended injury absence) doubled with one out and Melvin Mercedes drew a walk, after a Gastonia pitching change Cordero doubled to left-center scoring both runners to give the Stormers the lead. Ariel Sandoval batted next and sent a laser-beam onto the picnic pavilion in right putting the finishing touches on the 6-2 victory. Brandyn Sittinger worked two innings and won it in relief of starter Jaret Lakind, Nick Duron finished it with a scoreless ninth. On Sunday afternoon the teams convened for a 3:00 game, I elected to make another rare day-game appearance. Gametime temperature was 85 degrees, the same as Friday night at the football game but the differences were (1) much lower humidity, (2) a beautiful breeze blowing from right to left and (3) since I had missed Friday it was a makeup game of sorts. On this afternoon each team scored in the second, the Stormers' run coming on a double by Garcia and Robinson's RBI groundout. Gastonia went ahead 4-1 in the fourth, in the home half Joseph Carpenter went yard with a man on to make it 4-3, Robinson followed with a base hit and scored on a Shawn Dunston sac fly to even it at 4-4. It stayed that way until the ninth when the Honey Hunters pushed across the lead run and held it for a 5-4 win. Nile Ball started and went six, Mike Adams took the loss in relief. The club stays home for a series with Charleston starting on Tuesday. Take care, thanks for reading.
