Pitching and defense rule the day
On a perfect evening for a baseball game, the Brooklyn Cyclones began a three-game series against the Lowell Spinners amid a sea of bobbling Jack Kerouaks. Those would prove to be the bulk of the bobbles in a game filled with stellar defensive plays by both teams. Despite outhitting the Spinners 9-4 (plus one walk for Brooklyn), the Cyclones only managed to score a single run on Jayce Boyd’s second home run of the year. Gabriel Ynoa went 7 scoreless innings for the Cyclones, giving up 4 hits and striking out 8. He got into a jam in the 6th but stranded runners on first and third. Paul Sewald picked up where Ynoa left off and recorded the final 6 outs to get the save. Sewald was a bit wild at the start of his outing, but the overeager Spinners ran up plenty of 2-strike counts on balls in the dirt. In addition to offense, a notable absence in this game was 2011 1st round draft pick Brandon Nimmo, who signed autographs before the game but did not play. Nimmo missed a second game after taking a pitch to the shoulder on Sunday.
Ks to the left and Ks to the right
Nelfi Zapata gets the first hit of the game and becomes the first of many stranded Cyclones baserunners
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