York Rallies for 4-2 Win in Series Finale
The Lancaster Stormers got off to a quick start in their bid to sweep the archrival York Revolution for the first time in nearly three years, but the early efforts were quickly erased as the Revs came from behind for a 4-2 win Sunday afternoon at Penn Medicine Park.
Lancaster, which had produced runs out of most of their opportunities in the series, scored in each of the first two innings in the finale. Joseph Carpenter drilled a sacrifice fly to left in the bottom of the first off Tyler Palm (2-0). The Stormers crept another run across on a tapper to the right side by Slater Schield in the second. Then, Palm retired 11 straight Lancaster hitters, and the flow of the game changed.
Jeffrey Wehler’s double inside the third base bag scored Marty Costes from first with two outs in the fourth inning. Justin Connell tied the game with a homer onto the right field deck in the fifth.
Two more singles chased Noah Skirrow. Christian Scafidi struck out Bubba Alleyne to end the fifth. The sixth was a different story for Scafidi (0-1). With one out, Wehler launched a deep fly ball down the right field line that was out of Carpenter’s reach and rattled around for a triple. Scafidi worked the count to 0-2 on the nine-hole hitter Mason Walker, but his next pitch bounced and eluded Andrew Semo with Wehler scoring. Two batters later, Connell lined a triple down the right stripe for a 4-2 lead.
The Stormers managed a pair of two-out singles against Palm in the sixth and put runners at first and second with one out in the ninth. Cam Richardson induced a 4-6-3 double play out of pinch hitter Ariel Sandoval to close out the afternoon.
Lancaster will open a six-game series at Staten Island on Tuesday evening. Steven Lacey (0-0) will make the start for the Stormers against right-hander Morgan McSweeney (2-0). Fans may tune into FloBaseball at 6:25 to catch the action.
NOTES: The Stormers concluded their longest homestand of the season with a 6-3 record…Semo is 6-for-8 in two starts against York and is batting .364 overall…He was celebrating his 25th birthday…Lancaster had more hits on Sunday than in either of the other two games in the set…Nick Lucky threw a runner (Michael Berglund) out at the plate in the second inning, the second man cut down by a Lancaster outfielder in the series.