Brooklyn Cyclones: Possible Round One Match-Up - Game Two Versus Tri City Tonight

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BROOKLYN CYCLONES:  Down to the Final Fifteen Games of the Regular Season, the Coney Island Nine Are Now Four Games Out of First Place.


Heading into tonight's action, the Brooklyn Cyclones are four games behind the Hudson Valley Renegades in the McNamara Division race.  And for the moment, they hold a four game lead over the Batavia Muckdogs in the Wild Card standings.  Fifteen games remain in the regular season.  And nothing is certain.


Tuesday night in Coney Island, the Surf Avenue Sluggers kicked-off a home stand, but failed to help their cause by dropping the first game against the League's top team, the Tri City Valley Cats.  The  circuit's best club sports a 44-17 record, and lead the Stedler Division by 15.5 games over the Connecticut Tigers.  For the Brooklyn Cyclones (37-24), this series is shaping up as a playoff preview should they advance into the post-season via the Wild Card.


Brooklyn starter, Rainy Lara, was looking to improve upon his league best seven wins.  But Tri City's starter, Juri Perez, was better.  Rainy was solid through the first four innings.  In the fifth however, the Valley Cats went to work against one of the League's top starters.  Of course, there was a lead-off walk to start things off.  Rainy then hit the second batter with a pitch.  A walk issued to the third batter loaded the bases.  The next batter, Austin Elkins, was ejected mid at-bat for arguing balls and strikes with the home plate ump.  Pinch-hitting, Emilio King struck out.  Then an RBI single plated two runs.  Another single and a sac-fly then made the score 4-2 after four and a half innings of play.


Brooklyn scored their two runs back in the third inning.  After Juan Carlos Gamboa led off the inning with a double, Nelfi Zapata crushed his second home run of the season, which at the time, gave the Cyclones a 2-0 lead.


The Valley Cats picked up one more run in the sixth, and the game ended in a 5-2 final.  Tri City's Juri Perez pitched six full innings, allowing seven hits, and two earned runs.  He walked one and struck out five.  Out of the bullpen, Jeremiah Meiners took care of Brooklyn over the next three innings.  He allowed just one hit, and struck out three batters to earn his second save of the season.  Rainy Lara suffered loss number two.


In game two tonight in Coney Island, Brooklyn's Luis Cessa will start for Brooklyn, and will face Tri City's Lance Day.




Mike.BTB

BKN CYCLONES ~ Staten Island; Phil Hughes Bow To Brooklyn

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BROOKLYN CYCLONES:  Bronx Bomber Phil Hughes Not Enough For Staten Island.  Coney Island Nine Take Rubber Game In First Meeting In The Battle Of The Boroughs.



The Staten Island Yankees needed Bomber's starter Phil Hughes, who's on rehab from the Bronx, to help get them out to an early two run lead against Brooklyn in the rubber game of their respective 2011 Opening Day Series.


The Lil' Spankees were feeling pretty good about themselves as Phil Hughes manhandled the Cyclones over his first four innings of work.  He walked one and gave up two hits to that point, but struck out seven Bums.  You might say his rehab was going pretty well today.


The Staten Islanders sent Phil Hughes out for the fifth inning.  That's when the catcher for the Surf Avenue Sluggers; Nelfi Zapata, who hails from the Bronx himself; stepped up and deposited the Major Leaguer's one out offering over the wall in left for a solo home run.  And with that blast, Phil Hughes' work was done for the day.


And so was the Staten Island Yankees' day for that matter.  With their Major League loan out of the game, the Cyclones went to work against the Yankees' bullpen; and more specifically Yankees' reliever; Wilton Rodriguez.  Over the next 2.2 innings, the Cyclones touched him for five hits and four runs.


The Cyclones grabbed their first lead of the afternoon in the sixth inning.  Ismael Tijerina doubled to to lead-off.  He advanced to third base and scored on a Richard Lucas sac-fly to center field.  Luke Stewart singled and moved to second when Juan Torres was hit by a pitch.  Travis Taijeron then singled home Stewart for a 2-1 Brooklyn lead.


The Yankees picked up a run in the top half of the seventh.  In the bottom half, Brooklyn added two more runs when Javier Rodriguez came through with a single off the second baseman scoring runners from second and third, giving the Cyclones a 5-3 lead they'd keep.


Brooklyn starter; Jeffrey Walters; handed in a representative effort.  In 4.1 innings, he allowed two hits and two runs (both earned).  He walked two and struck out four pitching to a no-decision.


Three Cyclone relievers kept the Yankees quiet the rest of the way.  Guillaume Leduc relieved Walters with 1.1 innings; two hits; and two strikeouts.  Today's winning pitcher; Hunter Carnevale; pitched two innings, allowing 2 hits and an unearned run while striking out four.  T.J. Chism closed things out for the Cyclones pitching the ninth inning.  In recording his first save of the season, he gave up a hit and struck out one.


7, 966 fans packed the park tonight.

MONDAY

June 20, 2011

Angel Pagan Bobble Head Night

Pagan is scheduled to throw out the First Pitch.

BROOKLYN CYCLONES

vs.

Aberdeen Iron Birds

From Surf Avenue, Coney Island

 

See You There!

Mike.BTB