Scenes from The Vault
Blogger's note: All photos are courtesy of John Zeedick.
For the first time since the York Pirates won the Eastern League title in 1969, a minor league baseball team from York is headed to the playoffs. The York Revolution defeated the Lancaster Barnstormers 14-5 at Sovereign Bank Stadium to clinch the Atlantic League's Freedom Division second-half title Thursday. Enrique Cruz (pictured above) scored two runs and knocked in a run.
Outfielder Jason Aspito, however, earned hero status when he bashed a grand slam in the sixth inning Thursday to help York complete a comeback from a 5-1 deficit.
York shortstop George Sandel joked around with Aspito (pictured above) after the game, holding an empty Gatorade bucket over his head when he faced the television camera crews.
Late-season acquisition Saul Solveson closed out the game. The former Somerset Patriots reliever will face his former team in the Freedom Division Series that starts Tuesday in York.
Even beloved clubhouse manager Chris Seitz got involved in the celebration. Thursday may have been the only time during the Seitz Era when a player wasn't heard shouting, "SEITZ! Do some laundry!"
Scott · September 19, 2008 9:59 AM
(I also posted this on the Barnstormer’s Blog, and I’ll bet it gets taken down)
Here’s a very, VERY special toast to seeing every single one of those 3 or 4 dozen obnoxious Barnstormer fans that even bothered to show up in York, sit in well deserved dejection, with crocodile tears streaming down their cheeks. It's sure is hard to ring your cowbells in someone’s ears when they’re shoved straight up your…well you know…you were there! If the majority of you didn’t act ignorant, arrogant, and unsportsmanlike when you come to our ballpark, perhaps karma wouldn’t have destroyed your team. We are not ignorant to you when you come to York or we go to Lancaster, so take a good lokk at our example, and be decent.
Oh, and feel free to keep that stupid Community Cup, because it means jack squat to a bunch of players that change around each year. All that cup is really good for is a dugout spitoon!
York moves on…..Lancaster goes HOME.