Wednesday evening at the ballpark for game #2 with Staten Island and another wacky night in the Atlantic League. The visitors from New York City's southernmost borough took a 1-0 lead in the second inning before the Barnstormers replied with a four-spot in their half. Back-to-back singles by Wilson Garcia and Joseph Carpenter started the rally, Trayvon Robinson's RBI double tied the game 1-1. Chris Proctor's infield groundout scored Carpenter and moved Robinson to third, Trayvon trotted home on Jack Conley's sac fly putting the Stormers up 3-1. Trace Loehr was hit by the pitch and moved up on a Melvin Mercedes base hit, a throwing error allowed Loehr to touch home with the inning's fourth run. The unphased FerryHawks came right back with three in the third to tie the game at 4-4, in the home fourth Loehr doubled and scored on Andretty Cordero's base hit to give the Stormers a one-run lead. It stayed that way until the eighth when the Hawks scored the tying run but in the ninth the Barnstormers won it on base hits by Garcia (run), Carpenter and Proctor (GWRBI). It was the ballclub's first walk-off win of the season and the first since Jake Hoover's game-winning home run in the 2022 playoffs. Nick Duron was the winner in relief of starter Brent Teller with Garret Granitz (two innings) and newcomer Ofreidy Perez (one inning) bridging the gap. The series was scheduled to end on Thursday but it never happened. Around 4:30 or so a hard storm passed through, the field had been covered and was in good shape but at 6:30 there was lightning in the area and the field was cleared. The infield was exposed since the tarp had been removed, once the next storm arrived it was only a matter of how bad it would get and it didn't take long to find out. Staten Island returns on the 15th for the season's last weekend, the game will be made up then if it is needed. The stormy weather conditions continued off and on through the weekend, on Sunday we had planned on opening the fall street hockey season in Rothsville. The morning forecast called for thunderstorms during the time we'd be there, we postponed the games for safety and absolutely NOTHING happened. To say it's frustrating would be putting it mildly, all we can do is hope for better luck on the 17th. Take care, thanks for reading.
