Brooklyn Cyclones Earn Trip Back to Championship Series

From the desk of: THE McNAMARA DIVISION CHAMPIONS

NEW YORK PENN LEAGUE
SEMIFINALS

Cyclones defeat Renegades 2-1

I - HVR 5; BRK 4

II - BRK 1; HVR 0

GAME THREE

Hudson Valley Renegades  3

Brooklyn Cyclones              4

FINAL

Hurricane Dorian Darkened Skies Over MCU Park

PRE-GAME MEETING AT HOME PLATE

Renegades manager Blake Butera and Cyclones manager Edgardo Alfonzo 

NATIONAL ANTHEM

MATT CLEVELAND TAKES HIS WARM-UPS

FIRST PITCH

Hudson Valley wastes no time stirring up trouble against Cyclones starter Matt Cleveland, who surrenders two earned runs on two hits (home run by right fielder Hill Alexander), with two walks and one strikeout through 1.1 innings.  Dan Goggin (below) enters the game in relief of Cleveland in the second, and yields another earned run on two hits and no walks with three strikeouts in 3.2 innings of work.

DAN GOGGIN ENTERS GAME IN RELIEF OF CLEVELAND 

CYCLONES TIE THE GAME IN THE FOURTH AT THREE

The Cyclones tie the game at three on Luke Ritter's RBI sac-fly scoring Antoine Duplantis in the first and Ranfy Adon's home run leading off the third inning.  After which Jake Mangum singles and comes around to score on a pair of passed balls and a throwing error in the fourth.

CYCLONES RALLY IN THE NINTH

Reliever Nick McDonald pitches a scoreless sixth and seventh innings, allowing just one hit with four strikeouts through seven batters faced.  Andrew Edwards enters the game in the eighth.  He faces seven batters and strikes out five through the top of the ninth.

Bottom of the ninth: Cyclones second baseman Yoel Romero stands at second base after drawing a lead-off walk against Renegades reliever Eleardo Cabrera, then being advanced by Jake Ortega's successful sacrifice bunt.  Ranfy Adon stands in at the plate.   

RANFY ADON STROKES A LINER INTO THE RIGHT/CENTER GAP

ROMERO SCORES WINNING RUN AS REST OF

CYCLONES COME POURING OUT OF DUGOUT

CELEBRATION TIME 

AT CONEY ISLAND

Shortstop Wilmer Reyes is 4 for 4 with a run scored.  Ranfy Adon is big man on campus going two for four with a home run leading off the third, and the game winning hit in the ninth.  It was Adon's first home run of the season.  Four Brooklyn pitchers join in allowing Hudson Valley three runs on five hits with three walks and 13 strikeouts.  The Cyclones are headed back to their first NYPL championship series since the 2012 season.  They will face the Lowell Spinners whom defeat the Batavia Muckdogs two games against one.  The finals open Sunday evening at Lowell's LeLacheur Park.