Re-NICK-ulous!  Zwack Shines as Brooklyn Wins 6-1

BOX SCORE

Win – Zwack (2-1)

Loss – Castano (2-6)

Save – Hartwig (7)

Home Run – BRK: Palmer (7) / HV: None

Time of Game – 2:49

Wappingers Falls, NY (June 30, 2022) – The Cyclones topped the Hudson Valley Renegades on Thursday evening by the score of 6-1. In a game in which four Cyclones pitchers combined to allow just three hits, they also combined to issue nine walks. INF Shervyen Newton had three RBI on the night to lead the Brooklyn offense.

LHP Nick Zwack made the start for Brooklyn and was phenomenal once again for the Cyclones. The southpaw tossed 6.0 shutout frames, allowing just one hit with three walks while striking out six. Zwack finished the month of June having allowed just one run over his 25.0 innings and currently has an 18.0 inning scoreless streak.

But as impressive as Zwack was Hudson Valley’s starter Blas Bastano matched him zero for zero until the bottom of the sixth when Brooklyn was finally able to break through. After being held hitless through the first five innings, Jaylen Palmer led off the bottom of the sixth with a solo blast over the left field wall to give the Cyclones a 1-0 lead. Matt O’Neill followed with a walk and Matt Rudick was hit by a pitch to put a pair of runners aboard with nobody out. Shervyen Newton then hit a line drive into centerfield that Everson Pereira made a diving attempt for, but was unable to coral, allowing Newton to scamper all the way to third with a two-RBI triple. JT Schwartz then took advantage of a drawn-in infield with a chopper over the head of the Renegades shortstop for an RBI single that made it 4-0.

That’s how it would stay until the bottom of the eighth when Hudson Valley was finally able to take advantage of some control issues from the Brooklyn bullpen to score a run. RHP Sammy Tavarez walked four batters in the frame, to force home a run. But Grant Hartwig came out of the bullpen – in a bases loaded jam – and got the final out of the frame to keep Brooklyn on top 4-1.

In the top of the ninth, the Cyclones returned the favor when they loaded the bases with three straight walks to start the frame against Renegades reliever Leif Strom. Matt O’Neill was then plunked by a pitch to keep the line moving, and force home a run to make it 5-1 in favor of Brooklyn. Shervyen Newton tacked on an RBI groundout to push the Brooklyn lead to 6-1.

Brooklyn will look to get even in the six-game series on Friday evening when they send RHP Garrison Bryant (3-1) to the mound. Game time is 7:05 at Dutchess Stadium.