Cyclones 3
Vermont 0
August 9 at MCU Park
The Cyclones cruised to a second straight win, defeating Vermont 3–0 at MCU Park on Tuesday on the arm of starting pitcher Harol Gonzalez who tossed seven seven shutout innings.
“Harol is too good for this league but he sure is fun to watch,” Brooklyn skipper Tom Gamboa said.
Brooklyn’s bats gave Gonzalez a lead to work with as a pair of singles from Desmond Lindsay and Michael Paez and a Jay Jabs walk loaded the bases with one out. Brandon Brosher’s broken bat single to shallow center scored two runs.
Gonzalez was dealing for the Cyclones, retiring the first 10 Lake Monsters that came to the plate. Vermont put two runners on to begin the sixth. A fly out and groundout put the runners on second and third with two outs. That was as close as the Lake Monsters would get as Gonzalez struck out Eli White – after he had hit a liner just foul down the right field line –to end the inning.
Lindsay led off the Brooklyn sixth with a homer to left off Ivan Andueza to extend the lead to 3–0.
“I was just looking for a fastball, a pitch that I could drive,” Lindsay said.
Vermont threatened again in the seventh as Nick Collins singled to left with a runner on second and two outs. Tyler Ramirez tried scoring, but Jay Jabs made a great throw to the plate where Ali Sanchez made the tag to end the inning.
Gonzalez improved to 5–1 with a 1.57 earned run average, walking just one in the win and stirking out seven.
Gary Cornish came in from the bullpen for the six-out save. Two singles brought the tying run to the plat, but Cornish recovered by striking out Eric Marinez and getting White to ground out to short to end the eighth.
Cornish pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to close out the win.
The 26–25 Cyclones host Vermont on Wednesday at 7 pm.
UPS AND DOWNS
Pete Alonso was taken out following the eighth inning, after he slid into second and jammed his pinky, according to Gamboa. With the finger becoming discolored, Darryl Knight played at first in the ninth.
Zanon watch: Jacob Zanon will not play with the Cyclones for the rest of the season because of a partial tear of the labrum. Angel Pagan’s stolen base record is safe.
