Cyclones 3
Batavia 0
July 20 at MCU Park
The Brooklyn Boys of Summer scored three first inning runs and the pitchers earned their payday as the Cyclones cruised to their third shutout of the year over one of the league’s hottest teams.
Batavia entered the game coming off two straight sweeps of Vermont and Staten Island, but couldn’t get anything going against any of Brooklyn’s hurlers. Miller Diaz started the game and struck out nine Muckdogs in five innings before inclement weather delayed the game.
The only scoring of the game came in the first inning, when leadoff man Patrick “To Infinity and” Biondi doubled up the third base line, and Justin “The Machine” Turner, the big leaguer on rehab assignment with the Cyclones, walked. L.J. “Mini-Maz” Mazzilli and Jared King then hit back-to-back RBIs, and Matt “Bright Eyes” Oberste later cleaned it up with an RBI single of his own.
The pitching took care of the rest, as Tim Peterson added four more strikeouts after a second weather delay and John Mincone ended the game for his fifth save of the year.
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