Jenny and Helen were in Strasburg on Wednesday morning, the access van took them in as usual and I took them home As Usual. At the ballpark in the evening the Stormers were all set for game #2 with Hagerstown but Mother Nature had other ideas. It began to rain about an hour before game time and it stayed for most of the night, the game was postponed and immediately rescheduled as a doubleheader on Thursday. The first game started at 4:00, around 3:30 or so it stormed again for about five minutes but then disappeared as quickly as it arrived. In game #1 the Stormers went up 1-0 in the third on a Trace Loehr RBI groundout, in the fourth the visitors from Western Maryland pushed across the tying run before Chad Sedio's two-run home run in the bottom half put the Stormers up 3-1. In the fifth an RBI double by Loehr and Cristian Santana's run-scoring single made it 5-1, after Hagerstown scored a single run in the sixth Jack Conley's two-run double put the Stormers up by five. The Boxcars scored twice the seventh but the Stormers held on for a 7-4 win. In the nightcap (which started at 7:05) it was all Stormers from the word Go, two-run singles from Justin Farmer and Nick Lucky in the second inning made it 4-0. Five runs scored in the fifth on RBI hits by Lucky and Santana plus a Shawon Dunston groundout and two wild pitches to put the Stormers ahead by nine, in the sixth two more crossed the plate on a fielding error and a Santana solo home run. The final was 11-0, in the doubleheader the Stormers used only four pitchers. Max Green won the opener with relief support from Steven Nogesek, Jack Labosky took the decision in the nightcap with newcomer Phil Diehl working the last inning. Since starting 10-18 the Stormers have won ten in a row, they'll try to keep it going on the road with the next home date on the 14th. The weekend was quiet except for Saturday lunch with Jenny and her mother, on Sunday we played street hockey in Rothsville. Warwick beat Township via shootout and Ephrata won over Hillside. Six weeks are in the books and everybody has played everybody else twice (although not in the original order), we'll be back for week #7 on the 16th. Take care, thanks for reading.
