Cyclones 2
Staten Island 0
July 26 at Staten Island
Cyclones’ catcher Eddie Rohan homered in the third and hit an RBI double in the fifth to score the only two runs and the Cyclones’ pitchers retired 14 straight batters to end the game.
Rohan’s home run over the right-field wall also recorded the first hit of the intense pitching duel. The homer is the fourth of the year for the Cyclones and the first for Rohan. He joins Matt “Bright Eyes” Oberste, James “Papa” Roche and Juan Gamboa in the team’s home run club.
Alex Sanchez singled in the fifth inning, just before Rohan got up to the plate and smashed another shot to right field, sending Sanchez home. But it was the Brooklyn hurlers that won the game for Brooklyn’s Boys of Summer.
Robert “Not-so-silent G” Gsellman struck out five batters in seven solid innings of work and Ricky Knapp entered in the eighth inning to close the game and get the shutout. The pitchers combined to retire 14 straight Yankees from the fifth inning on until Yeicok Calderon, the last batter of the game, recorded a hit and was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double.
With the win over their rivals, who have also lost five straight games, the Cyclones leapfrog the Yankees into third place in the division and look to stretch the gap with a sweep tonight at 7 pm.
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