Wednesday morning at the health campus, the surgeon and his chief assistant were in town from Philadelphia. They both examined the scar and said it's healing perfectly. In the evening at the ballpark for game #2 with Hagerstown, after the Tuesday loss the Stormers evened the series in shutout fashion. Nick Ward scored the game's first run on a wild pitch in the fifth inning, a three-run eighth put the game away. Back-to-back bases-loaded walks to Evan Alexander and recently-added Scott Kelly made it 3-0, Ward's RBI hit scored the final run. Noah Skirrow pitched six innings of five-hit ball with ten strikeouts with Scott Engler, Cody Stashak and Gerson Moreno finishing out the 4-0 win. On Thursday in the rubber game the Stormers scored twice in the first on a Joseph Carpenter base hit and Nick Lucky's sac fly, in the second inning the game's competitive aspect disappeared. Eight runs scored for the Good Guys on a Hagerstown error, base hits by Lucky and Yeison Coca, Nick Ward's RBI double and a grand slam home run by Alex Isola. The visitors got to within 10-4 in the fifth but another error and an RBI hit by Isola put the Stormers up by eight. The scoring ended in the sixth on back-to-back home runs from Mason Martin (two-run) and Carpenter (solo shot). The final was 15-4, Michael McAvene won it with relief help from A.J. Alexy, Billy Sullivan and Kyle Johnson, The ballclub hits the road until the first day of August. Take care, thanks for reading.
