The fifth month of the year began with a busy Wednesday, for a second consecutive Wednesday Jenny was in town for a medical appointment. As is usually the norm she and her mother rode in on the access van and I took them home with lunch along the way. In the afternoon we were back at the ballfield at McCaskey, Warwick visited for the second time. The ballclub has just two victories, the result on this day perhaps distilled the entire season's struggle into a single game. Warwick scored three runs through the first four batters of the game, they never scored again but they didn't have to. In two separate innings the Red Tornado had the bases loaded with one out and failed to score, in three others the first batter reached base and advanced no further. JPM finally got on the board in the seventh, with one out Jhanel Perez and Rey Ortiz reached on back-to-back singles. A wild pitch advanced the runners to second and third as Elliott Fluck flied out to right for the second out, on the catch Perez tried to score and was caught dead-to-rights in a rundown between third and home. Jhanel caught a big break as one of the Warwick fielders threw the ball away for an error allowing him to score, the next batter was retired ending the game. Starting pitcher Adrian Rodriguez went six innings and took the 3-1 loss, Janpaul Rodriguez worked the last inning. The boys have three games left, the next at home is on Monday the 6th. Over on North Prince Street the Stormers continued their series with Hagerstown and finished the sweep with wins on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. In recognition of the franchise's twentieth year the club recently announced its twenty-man All-Time Team, the roster features (in no particular order) pitchers Ross Peeples, Denny Harriger, Pete Andrelczyk, Dwayne Pollack, Scott Patterson and Jason Urquidez, catcher Lance Burkhart, infielders Melvin Mercedes, Andretty Cordero, Travis Hake, K.C.Hobson, Jeremy Todd and Lloyd Turner plus outfielders Blake Gailen, Trayvon Robinson, Caleb Gindl, Quincy Foster, Aaron Herr, Ryan Harvey and Tommy Everidge. The Stormers stay home for the weekend to host the Lexington Legends. Take care, thanks for reading.
