Cyclones 2
State College 1
July 16 at MCU Park
Jose Miguel “Funky Cold” Medina’s two-out double in the bottom of the ninth with two on scored the game-winning run as the Cyclones beat the Spikes to snap a five game losing streak.
With the game seemingly headed for extra innings after Edgardo Furmin popped out to first and Jeremy Wolf struck out swinging, Matt Winaker singled to right and Reed Gamache worked a walk before Medina hit a line-drive double to score Winaker to win the game.
Manager Edgardo “Fonzie” Alfonzo praised Medina for his clutch hitting.
“When we needed him most today, he stepped up and did his job,” the skipper said.
Clones starter Gunnar Kines threw six shutout innings, allowing just one hit by mixing a nice curveball in with his fastball to keep hitters off balance — something that hadn’t worked for him in the past.
“I knew my pitches were going where they wanted to and the curveball was coming in nice,” Kines said. “So I felt a lot better going into it tonight than in my previous outings.”
The win puts our boys at 7–19, still dead last in the McNamara Division.
The Cyclones hope to keep the momentum going tonight against hated, first-place Staten Island Yankees at 7 pm at MCU Park. The damn Yankees, of course, have a the best record in the New York-Penn League, at 19–7, and a staggering .731 winning percentage.
