Brooklyn Pitching Dominates to Close Out 1st Half with 3-1 Win
BOX SCORE Win – Vasil (1-1) Loss – Pipkin (1-2) Save – Hartwig (6) Home Runs – None Time of Game – 1:55 Brooklyn, NY (June 23, 2022) – The Cyclones closed out the first half of the South Atlantic League season with a 3-1 victory over the Jersey Shore
Win – Vasil (1-1)
Loss – Pipkin (1-2)
Save – Hartwig (6)
Home Runs – None
Time of Game – 1:55
Brooklyn, NY (June 23, 2022) – The Cyclones closed out the first half of the South Atlantic League season with a 3-1 victory over the Jersey Shore BlueClaws. Brooklyn finished the first half at 30-36 but everyone’s record resets to 0-0 starting with Friday night’s action. The Cyclones managed just three hits on the night, with Matt Rudick going 2-for-4 with a run scored to lead the offensive charge.
Matt Vasil (1-1) made the start for Brooklyn and was solid on the mound for the Cyclones. The right-hander tossed 6.0 innings, scattering four hits and just a single run while striking out five. His only rough spot came in the top of the first when D.J. Stewart had a two-out double that scored Ethan Wilson with the game’s first run.
Vasil surrendered three base hits in the top of the first, but then retired 15 in a row before allowing a two-out single in the sixth. Justin Courtney followed with 2.0 shutout frames to set up Grant Hartwig who closed out the win with a 1-2-3 ninth inning.
All of Brooklyn’s offense came in the bottom of the fourth inning when Matt Rudick led off the frame with a double and Matt O’Neill followed with a four-pitch walk to put a pair of runners aboard with nobody out. After JT Schwartz struck out, Nic Gaddis hit a frozen rope into left field that plated Rudick to knot the score at 1-1. Jaylen Palmer then worked a walk to load the bases and Jose Peroza followed with a walk of his own to force home the go-ahead run. Shervyen Newton added a sac fly to plate an insurance run and give Brooklyn a 3-1 lead.
That is how the game would end as the Brooklyn bullpen was nearly unhittable, and the Cyclones added just one more base knock of their own.
The Cyclones and BlueClaws will open up the second half of the season on Friday night with the first Coney Island Friday Night Fireworks of the summer. Game time is 7:00 PM and tickets start at just $10.