Cyclones 3
Staten Island 2
Aug. 26 at MCU Park
Great Scott! The Cyclones won a game!
Scott Manea hit a sacrifice fly with a runner on third in the bottom of the ninth to score the game-winning run and stop the Clones losing streak at a record 14 games.
The Cyclones got on the board early. With runners on the corners in the first, Yankees starter Daniel Alvarez threw a wild pitch to score Walter “Rabbi” Rasquin and advance Jose Miguel “Funky Cold” Medina to second. Jose Maria then singled to score Medina from second to make it 2–0.
But it didn’t take long for the Yankees to tie it up. In the top of the third, Jose Polonia singled then Kendall Coleman reached on a fielding error made by Rasquin. Keith Skinner then doubled to score both Polonia and Coleman to tie the match.
The Cyclones put both the game and the streak away in bottom of the ninth. Jeremy Vazquez was walked before Medina singled, advancing Vazquez to third. Manea’s fly to right was deep enough to score Vazquez from third and win the game.
The win may have not have much of an impact on the Cyclones season since they are still at a league-worst 16–47, but this ends the streak and thankfully ruined the possibility of the Cyclones tying the Newark Co-Pilots for lowest total of wins in a season when they won 15 back in 1973.
Now our boys can shift their focus on something they haven’t been able to do since Aug. 9: Win a series.
The Cyclones hope to do so when they return to Staten Island today at 4 pm.
