Cyclones 10
Tri-City 1
July 5 in Tri-City
Now that’s more like it!
The Cyclones forcefully destroyed Tri-City last night, earning 17 hits and 10 runs in the matchup — each a season high — and snapping their three-game losing streak.
The Clones’s bats were charged from the top of the first: Reed Gamache singled in Walter Rasquin, Quinn Brodey doubled to score Matt Winaker, Jose Miguel Medina hit a single to plate Gamache and Brodey, and Ricardo Cespedes singled to score Medina, making it 5–0.
The boys followed their early rally with more luck at bat in the second, when Medina scored Winaker on a sacrifice fly and Cespedes singled in Gamache to make the score 7–0.
But Brooklyn’s Boys of Summer were not finished. Winaker was hit by a pitch with bases loaded in the fifth, scoring Carl Stajduhar, and then Gamache hit a grounder to plate Franklin Correra, making it 9–0.
Tri-City finally got on the board when Miguelangel Sierra hit a solo homer in the seventh, but, with victory in sight, the Cyclones held the lead, increasing it in the eighth when Cespedes grounded out with bases loaded to score Gamache and make the final score 10–1.
The Cyclones’s hurlers pitched excellently: Nicolas Debora, Gunnar Kines, and Trey Cobb allowed only six hits and one run combined, with Kines getting the win.
The much-needed victory puts the Cyclones at 4–11 for the season, still in dead last place in the McNamara Divison, but now only two games behind Hudson Valley.
Brooklyn’s Boys of Summer hope to make it two wins in a row when they finish their three-game series against the ValleyCats tonight in Tri-City at 7 pm.
