Wednesday afternoon: back at McCaskey for baseball home game #2, Octorara visited from southwestern Chester County (the school itself is in Chester County but the district itself overlaps into the eastern fringes of Lancaster County). Conditions on this day were markedly different from the previous home date, at 4:15 it was forty-three degrees with winds out to left field at twenty-one miles per hour. The start was not promising, the Red Tornado trailed 3-0 out of the chute. In their half of the first the ballclub loaded the bases with one out on a hit batsmen, an error and a walk. Two runs scored on consecutive wild pitches, Armani Acevedo's RBI hit tied the game 3-3. In the second the visitors went back up by two, in the home third Adrian Rodriguez walked and scored on a Josh Reyes double to make it 5-4. From there it was all Octorara, six unanswered runs over the next three innings brought the final to 11-4. Eli Morales went five innings on the hill with Niko Bergeron out of the bullpen for the last two. The boys play at home again on Friday the 28th (I'm out for the Royals), my next game is on April 2nd when Ephrata visits for the season's first divisional game. Take care, thanks for reading.
