Staten Island 5
Cyclones 3
July 17 at MCU Park
Cyclones starter Jake Simon didn’t get out of the second inning, allowing four hits and five runs as the last place Cyclones fell to the first place — and hated — Staten Island Yankees.
Simon walked the first two batters he faced before Dom Thompson-Williams singled to score Oswaldo Cabrera. Simon then hit Timmy Robinson with a pitch, loading the bases, and Leonardo Molina’s sacrifice fly scored Wilkerman Garcia. Simon then walked Nelson Gomez before Jason Lopez singled to score Thompson-Williams and Robinson before Gomez was tagged out at third, making it 4–0 in the first.
After Thompson-Williams singled to score Ryan Krill in the second, manager Edgardo Alfonzo brought in Gregorix Estevez to prevent the game from getting out of hand.
Our boys made up some ground in the next two innings when Edgardo Fermin’s single with runners on first and second scored Walter Rasquin in the bottom of the second, and Jose Miguel “Funky Cold” Medina’s single scored Matt Winaker. The Clones had a chance to get closer when Medina reached third with one out, but Medina left third base early on Walter Rasquin’s sacrifice fly to left, and was called out.
Things got interesting in the sixth when Quinn Brodey led off with a double. Brodey advanced to third on Rasquin’s ground out, then scored when Yankees’ reliever Justin Kamplain threw a wild pitch, but that was all the Cyclones could muster on the night.
Fonzie was not pleased with the early rally made by the Yankees, but he was happy to see our boys fight back.
“The first inning was what killed us,” the skipper said. “But the game was close and I think we played pretty well. Those guys never gave up and they fought until the end.”
The Cyclones hope to end the losing trend when they take on the Evil Empire tonight at 7 pm at MCU Park.
