A Cyclones loss (box).
Believe it or not, this game started out great for Brooklyn. Yoel Romero walked. Jake Mangum grounded to the shortstop who
made an errant throw and Brooklyn had 1st and 3rd, no outs
with the team MVP, Wilmer Reyes, up. Reyes promptly singled scoring Romero with
Mangum taking 3rd. Then with
Reyes stealing 2nd, Mangum stole home. Brooklyn up 2-0 on one base hit. That in a nutshell is what Brooklyn baseball
has been all year, aggressive base running, and exciting. It has been a fun team to watch and the
pennant race has been great to follow.
But on Thursday it was not to be. Mets 2019 fifth round pick, Nathan Jones had the
roughest night of his professional career.
In just 2/3rd of an inning, Nathan gave up 4 hits, two walks,
and a wild pitch. He left the game with
two men on base and 4 runs in. RHP Corey
Gaconi did not fare better in relief as he allowed two of the runners he
inherited from Nathan score and gave up two of his own. At the end of one inning it was 8-2 Iron
Birds. Final score 12-3.
With Hudson Valley winning, Brooklyn dropped back to a game
out of first, tied with Aberdeen for the wild card. Brooklyn sends Matt Cleveland (3-3 3.57 ERA)
to the mound Friday in what could very well be the deciding game of the wild
card race. Should Aberdeen and Brooklyn
end the season tied for the wild card, their head to head play will determine
the winner. After Thursday’s game, the
season series is tied.
Syracuse’s 2-0 win (box).
Jed Lowrie and Rymer Liriano homered and Ervin Santanna went
six scoreless innings as the Syracuse Mets got back to a first place tie with the
Yankee’s Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Rail Riders who split a pair with Pawtucket. Nick Rumbelow, Stephen Nogosek and Tyler
Bashlor all added an inning in relief.
That is now 22 games with 30 scoreless innings for Nogosek. Impressive at any level.
Syracuse now heads to Rochester for the final four games of
the year. Manager Tony DeFrancesco told Syracuse.com
that Lowrie will now get the night off but that Brandon Nimmo will be back in
the lineup on Friday.
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We forget how good Jed Lowrie was the past two seasons and what a loss this year has been without him. Hopefully he is back in Queens after Syracuse runs out of games.
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