May 4-6

Rainy conditions moved into the area on Saturday morning and continued for most of the day, I made the rare decision to stay home from the ballpark in the evening. I hate to be absent when I would otherwise be able to attend but it was a raw and unpleasant night, I may have considered it had the temperatures been about ten degrees warmer or my age about ten years younger. I'm to the point where my mind might say "I can do this" and my body says "Oh yeah, you wanna bet?". The bad thing is that Lexington visits just this one time, we won't see them again unless it's for the league championship in September. The game went on as scheduled despite the rain and it was called as soon as it became official, the Stormers won 12-2. Sunday was more of the same, I was awakened around 6:30 by the rainfall and the games in Rothsville were immediately postponed. It was supposed to clear off in the afternoon, I thought about going over to the ballpark but it was still raining lightly at 3:00 gametime and I didn't leave the house. That game went on as well, Lexington won to avoid the series sweep. The new turf at the ballpark was probably the only reason the games weren't postponed, in that regard it's a good thing but from a fan standpoint it can be less than ideal. The rain finally moved out overnight into Monday, in the afternoon we were back at McCaskey as Manheim Township visited for the second time. The first time was on April 12 (I was absent for hockey in Reading), Township won via the mercy rule. I figured this day had the potential to be either very long or very short, it proved to be the former. MT went up 1-0 in the first, in the home second Jhanel Perez's two-run triple gave the Red Tornado a 2-1 lead. After Township tied it in the third JPM took the lead back on a Josh Reyes RBI single. MT put a five-spot in the board in the fourth but The Good Guys fought back, in the bottom half Reyes came through again with a two-run single bringing the club to within 7-5, Township scored a single run in the sixth to go up 8-5, in the seventh they tore the game open with a fourteen-batter nine-run explosion. The final was 17-5, Andrew Carlisle started on the hill with Adrian Rodriguez, Janpaul Rodriguez and Eli Morales in relief. It in fact WAS a long day, we started at 4:15 and I got into my car shortly before 7:00. The season concludes with Senior Night on Wednesday the 8th. Take care, thanks for reading