Both Lancaster and York Struggling

The rain caused some problems for the York Revolution this past week as 3 games between Sunday and Wednesday were postponed due to rain. They are probably somewhat relieved though to have not had to play those games as they are struggling right now.

While the Senators are playing well in May (4-2) the Revolution is struggling. They dropped 2 games last weekend to Lancaster (Sunday was rained out) and then dropped 2 of 3 to the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs. All of those games were at home too. That is a 1-4 record so far this month.

Now they head out on the road to face the Somerset Patriots this weekend. That series starts tonight and goes through Sunday. Somerset is only a game better than the 3-9 Revs at this point in the season so maybe York can get a couple wins under their belt.


The Lancaster Barnstormers did not have as much of a problem with the rain as none of their games were postponed other than Sunday against York. They played in Long Island against the Ducks. Unfortunately for Lancaster they might have done better with rain outs as they lost all 4 games in Long Island.

They return home this weekend for a 3 games series against the Camden Riversharks. Lancaster is 4-9 on the season while the Riversharks are 9-4.


It is still early for both teams and there are lots of games yet to be played but the slow starts have to be a concern to fans. The one advantage for both Lancaster and York is that their division has only 1 team above .500 while 3 teams are at 4-8 or worse.

Revolution and Barnstormer Update

Well the baseball season in Harrisburg isn't very good. Verb touched on how bad the Senators are yesterday so I won't go into that too much. Let's look instead at how the Barnstormers and Revolution are doing after their opening weekends.

Lancaster:

Things started off good for the Barnstormers as they welcomed over 8,000 fans to opening night against the Newark Bears. It got even better when they won 5-2 in that game. It was the fifth straight opening night that they have won and only allowed 2 runs.

Unfortunately for Lancaster the weekend would not finish as nicely as it started. After the opening night win they proceeded to lose the remaining 3 games of the series to fall to 1-3 to start the season.

After that first 5-2 victory the Barnstormers failed to score more than 3 in the other 3 games and could not hold Newark to less than 5 as they lost 9-3, 5-3, and 5-3 to finish the weekend.

The Long Island Ducks come in for a 3 game set Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday before the Barnstormers and Revolution renew their rivalry this weekend in York.


York:

The Revolution started the season on the road with a big win opening night over the Bridgeport Bluefish. (what the hell is a bluefish anyway?) It was the first season opener win for York in their history.

They won the opener 8-4 but dropped the next two by a combined 17-10 before winning the 4th game of the series 3-2 on Sunday.

Their 7 game road trip to start the season continues on Tuesday in Southern Maryland (Waldorf to be exact) where they will play a 3 game series against the Blue Crabs.


So while the Senators are doing their best to be mirror images of their parent club, the Washington Nationals who are 4-13, with a 2-13 record the Revolution and Barnstormers are hopefully going to start a little bit better.

I have yet to be to a game this season at any of the parks and am not interested in heading over to City Island anytime soon. When the stadium is completely done next season the success of the team possibly won't matter as much but the seats still aren't very good and the team is horrible.

I am hoping to get to a Revolution game soon however as I live only 20 minutes from the stadium and it looks great. I walked around the perimeter of the stadium a few weeks ago and I am absolutely looking forward to seeing my first Revolution game this season.

Let's hope the Sens can turn their season around and hopefully the first series was just a slip up from Lancaster and not a sign of things to come.

York Revs possible opening day starter is...

The York Revolution made 4 signings earlier this week with one of them possibly being the opening night starter. Wayne Franklin is the career leader in wins for the Revs and was the opening night starter in the first game the franchise ever played. I haven't seen a complete roster but I suspect with Franklin's experience and he win total being 12 from last year the team will go with Franklin opening night.

The other three signee's were Dan Foli, Mike Smith and Ryan Goleski. Foli and Smith are both pitchers that can add depth to the team while Goleski is a power hitting outfielder that can add some pop in the middle of the order.

I don't know the complete roster yet for the Revs if they even have one but when I found out anything else, I will most definitely pass it on.