Tuesday morning at the health campus for lab work, in the evening we were at the ballpark for the final series of the regular season. The Long Island Ducks were the opponent for what was a meaningless series, the Stormers had clinched the second-half division title on Sunday and with it a playoff date with the York Revolution for the second consecutive year. In the Tuesday opener the Stormers never led in an 8-5 loss. After Melvin Mercedes scored on a wild pitch in the first the club rallied from down 5-1 to tie it in the fifth on a Mercedes sac fly and Sunday hero Quincy Hamilton's three-run home run. The Ducks broke the tie with one in the seventh and two in the eighth, Max Green suffered the loss in relief of Noah Bremer. On Wednesday I had round #3 of chemotherapy and had the The 46-Hour Albatross attached to my chest, in the evening it and me were back at the ballpark for game #2. On this night the Stormers again fell behind 1-0 before Danny Amaral's RBI groundout in the second tied it. LI led 3-1 in the sixth when Joe Campagna went yard to make it 3-2, in the seventh Nick Lucky's two-run shot gave the Stormers a 4-3 lead. The Ducks didn't go away quietly, a two-out run in the ninth made it 4-4 and set the stage for extra innings. In the tenth the Stormers walked it off on Scott Kelly's bases-loaded bloop single to left scoring Mason Martin with the game-winner, Michael McAvene pitched the top of the tenth and took the decision. The lame-duck finale (no pun intended) is on Thursday. Take care, thanks for reading.
