Aberdeen 9
Cyclones 3
June 29 in Aberdeen
Ramos got battered!
Cyclones starter Darwin Ramos choked on the mound last night, allowing seven hits and four runs in four innings, and the Clones only scored three runs as Aberdeen beat them for the second time.
The Cyclones were the first team on the board when Jeremy Wolf singled to score Reed Gamache in the second, but the Ironbirds tied it at 1–1 in the third after Kevin Mosquit scored on Garrett Copeland’s ground out.
Things took a turn for the worse in the fifth when Mosquit scored from third after a wild pitch from Ramos. The hurler then walked Copeland, who scored after Ben Breazeale doubled to left field.
Manager Edgardo “Fonzie” Alfonzo replaced Ramos with Nicolas Debora, who could not slow the Ironbirds’s momentum. Ryan Ripken doubled to score Breazeale, and Jaylen Ferguson brought Ripken home on a single, making the score 5–1 at the inning’s close.
A home run by Breazeale in the seventh and a three run-homer by Ripken in the eighth brought the tally to 9–1.
The Clones regained some ground in the ninth when Franklin Correa singled to score Dylan Snipes and then scored himself on a wild pitch after stealing second base and taking third on a throwing error, but that was it for the boys, who ended the game with a score of 9–3 and Ramos taking the loss — the Clones’s sixth straight defeat.
Brooklyn’s Boys of Summer are now at an even more putrid 2–7, putting them dead last in their McNamara Division, two games behind the Ironbirds.
The Cyclones hope to break their funk when they take on the Ironbirds again tonight in Aberdeen at 7 pm.
