Cyclones Split a Doubleheader in Bowling Green on Wednesday,

GAME ONE BOX SCORE

Win – Parsons (3-0)

Loss – LaSorsa (2-3)

Save – None

Home Runs – Mena (2), Manzardo 2 (2,3), Brundage (2)

Time of Game – 2:47 (1:24 Delay)

Bowling Green, Kentucky (May 25, 2022) – The Cyclones took the opener of Tuesday’s doubleheader, in extra innings, by the score of 11-9. The Hot Rods scored three in the bottom of the 7th to send the game into extras, but Brooklyn held on for the win. Jose Mena went 4-for-5 with two runs score and four RBI and the Cyclones collected a season-high 16 hits in the matinee.

Bowling Green got started early, scoring three runs in the bottom of the first, but in the top of the second Brooklyn got a rally started when Mena singled and Jose Peroza walked to put a pair of runners on with nobody out. But that’s when the rain came and the game was delayed for 84 minutes. When play resumed Brandon McIlwain smoked a line drive up the middle that was snagged by Bowling Green pitcher Anthony Molina for the first out. Molina then throw behind Peroza and double him off at first, but the toss was off-line and allowed Mena to score and moved Peroza all the way to third. Jaylen Palmer followed with an RBI double and Branden Fryman added a run-scoring single to knot things up at 3-3.

The Hot Rods quickly took the lead back in the bottom of the second when Diego Infante had an RBI triple that made it 4-3 Bowling Green. After trading zeroes in the third, Brooklyn put up a five spot in the top of the fourth to take the lead. Nic Gaddis, Jaylen Palmer and Branden Fryman had three consecutive base knocks to load the bases before Rowdey Jordan plated the tying run with an RBI single. JT Schwartz then added an RBI groundout before Jose Mena connected on a three-run home run to extend the Brooklyn lead to 8-4.

Bowling Green got a big fly of their own – a solo shot from Kyle Manzardo – in the bottom of the fourth to cut Brooklyn’s advantage to 8-5. But the lead would swell back to four runs in the fifth when Rowdey Jordan added another RBI single to make it 9-5.

In the sixth Manzardo hit his second solo shot of the game for Bowling Green to trim the ‘Clones lead to 9-6 setting the stage for the heroics in their last turn at bat. In the last-chance bottom of the seventh, Hunter Parsons came out of the pen to try and close out the win for the Cyclones. The righthander had not allowed a run all season, but Tanner Murray singled and Logan Driscoll worked a walk before Beau Brundage connect on the first pitch he saw and sent it over the centerfield wall for a game-tying home run.

In the top of the eighth, with the “ghost runner” already on second JT Schwartz singled to put runners on the corners and Jose Mena reached on an error, to plate the go-ahead run. Later in the frame Nic Gaddis tacked on an insurance run with a double into the right field corner that made it 11-9 in favor of the Cyclones. That’s how the game would end, as Hunter Parsons was able to toss a scoreless bottom of the inning to give Brooklyn the win.

GAME TWO BOX SCORE

Win – Workman (1-0)

Loss – Zwack (0-1)

Save – None

Home Runs – Infante (4)

Time of Game – 1:29

Bowling Green, Kentucky (May 25, 2022) – In the nightcap it was all Bowling Green as the Hot Rods shutout the Cyclones 8-0. Brooklyn’s lone base hit of the game was a fourth inning single from Shervyen Newton.

The Hot Rods scored three runs, but just one earned, in the bottom of the second off of LHP Nick Zwack (1-0) and never looked back. They would score five more runs in the bottom off the fourth inning against RHP Garrison Bryant to extend their lead to 8-0, which is how the game would end.