Cyclones 9
Renegades 1
Monday, June 29, at Hudson Valley
Another double-digit hitting barrage, coupled with stellar starting pitching, provided the formula for the Cyclones’ eighth win in their first 10 games.
Starter Brandon Moore (2-0, .64 ERA) scattered three hits and struck out nine in seven innings of work, giving up a run in the first inning and little else.
But the Cyclones erased that deficit in the fourth, with a Luis Rivera RBI triple.
Three straight singles by Matt Bouchard, Sam Honeck and Nicholas Giarraputo led to a run in the sixth. Another single later in the inning by Dock Doyle plated another.
Two more runs came in during the visiting seventh on singles by Bouchard and Honeck.
And four runs scored in the ninth — two on Giarraputo’s double and two more on Alex Gregory’s two-out single. Giarraputo was 2-for-5 on the night with three RBIs.
Reliever Lance Hoge was unhittable in two innings.
Cyclone hitting continues to amaze. The team is batting a league-leading .282 and has had nine or more hits in six of their eight wins.
Brooklyn has had 71 runs so far — 36 more than the second-highest run-producing team, Mahoning Valley (and the Scrappers have played one more game!).
But it hasn’t been all hitting; the Cyclones also have the third-lowest ERA in the league: 1.91 as a squad.
