Renegades Game Notes - 8/30/2026
SAL Hudson Valley Renegades

Renegades Game Notes - 8/30/2026

Published on August 30, 2026 under South Atlantic League (SAL)
Hudson Valley Renegades News Release


Hudson Valley Renegades (64-59, 34-25) vs. Brooklyn Cyclones (55-68, 30-28)

RHP Danny Flatt (First Game) vs LHP Connor Ware (0-0, 6.75 ERA)

| Game 124 | Home Game 66 | Sunday, August 30, 2026 | Heritage Financial Park | Wappingers Falls, N.Y. | First Pitch 2:05 p.m. |

Radio: The Beacon - WBPM 96.5 FM - Beacon, WGHQ 92.5 FM/920 AM Kingston, W232DQ 94.3 FM Peekskill, WBNR 1260 AM - Beacon, WLNA 1420 AM - Peekskill

Internet Radio: www.hvrenegades.com/broadcast & www.renegadesonair.com

TV: MiLB.tv & Bally Live App

Today's Theme Game: Bluey Day

Bark in the Park presented by Good Boy Vodka: First 75 dogs receive a Renegades Dog Leash presented by Good Boy Vodka

Promotion: Sunday Family Funday & Kids Club Sunday presented by Heritage Financial Credit Union

Postgame: Everybody Runs the Bases presented by CDPHP and Launch-A-Ball

BROOKLYN'S BACK: The Hudson Valley Renegades return home for their final homestand of the regular season, taking on the Brooklyn Cyclones, the High-A affiliate of the New York Mets. It's the fifth and final meeting in 2026 between the two teams, and the second and final in the Hudson Valley. The Renegades are 15-7 overall this year against Brooklyn, 8-3 at home, and 5-3 in the second half.

CHASING .500: Before the 6-5 win at Jersey Shore on Wednesday 8/19, the Renegades had not been at .500 overall on the season since sweeping a doubleheader at Brooklyn on 5/21 to improve to 21-21. It took 72 games for Hudson Valley to get back to .500 on the year. Further, the Renegades had not been above .500 since 5/14, and the team's high-water mark for the season is six games over .500, accomplished on 4/29 after defeating Jersey Shore to improve to 14-8.

GADES ARE HOT: Entering Sunday's against the Cyclones, the Renegades have won 16 of their last 20 games, their best 20-game stretch of the season. During this stretch the Renegades have won eight games in their last at-bat, including five out of their last seven road games in that fashion. They also swept the Jersey Shore BlueClaws, marking the first series sweep of the 2026 season. The 'Gades fell one win shy of a 10-game winning streak which would've been their first since 2017, and then lost two in a row for the first time since 8/13 and 8/14.

LEADING THE WAY: Jackson Lovich picked up his 23rd RBI with the 'Gades on 8/27 vs Brooklyn, and his 84th overall. Lovich leads Yankees minor leaguers in RBIs and is tied for 12th among all MiLB players who have spent the year in Single-A or High-A.

SPEED DEMONS: The Renegades stole 31 bases two weeks ago at Greenville including seven bases on Wednesday, 8/5, and a season-high nine bases on Saturday 8/8. Those two outings were the 11th and 12th times since the start of the 2005 season that the team has swiped seven-or-more in a game. The Renegades then stole 20 bases last week versus Wilmington to set a new club record of 231 stolen bases as a team this year. They passed their 2022 team high of 230 steals and are currently at 248 stolen bases.

WALK-OFF WINNERS: On 8/11 versus Wilmington, Hudson Valley grabbed its seventh walk-off win of the season. The 'Gades grabbed two more on 8/11 and 8/15 behind walk-off homers from Maika Niu and Jackson Lovich. It's the third time since the Renegades became an affiliate of the New York Yankees that they've had nine-or-more homers in a season (2021, 2024). Of the nine walk-off winners, six have been walk-off home runs (two by Kyle West, one by Kaeden Kent, two by Maika Niu, and one by Jackson Lovich).

BOUNCE BACK: After Hudson Valley lost five of six games at home to Jersey Shore, it won four of six on the road at Greenville, four at home against Wilmington, and all six on the road at Jersey Shore. The five losses marked the third time this season the Renegades have lost five-plus in a six-game series this year. It's only the second time since becoming a New York Yankees affiliate that the Renegades have lost five-or-more games in a six-game series three times in one season (2024). The back-to-back series wins at Greenville and versus Wilmington marked just the second back-to-back six-game series wins for the Renegades since April.

LATE-GAME LIFE: Last week against Wilmington, the Hudson Valley Renegades stormed back on multiple occasions. On 8/11, Maika Niu hit a walk-off homer after being tied with Wilmington since the top of the sixth inning. A day later, Niu grabbed his third go-ahead hit in a row, ripping a two-RBI double as part of a four-run bottom of the ninth inning to win. On the 13th, The 'Gades had another four-run bottom of the eighth inning but fell 6-5 to Wilmington. On 8/15, Jackson Lovich then hit a walk-off three-run homer as part of a seven run bottom of the ninth to walk off Wilmington.

DRAMATIC FINISH: On 8/9 at Greenville, the Renegades took down the Drive 15-12 in 12 innings. At 4 hours, 19 minutes, the game was the longest played by the Renegades in the Yankees Era (2021-Present), and the longest game played by the Renegades since 8/30/10 at Tri-City (4:25). In the win, the Renegades set their season-high run total, and they clinched their first six-game road series win since 4/14-19 at Frederick.

HAVE YOU MET THE NIU GUY?: Since coming to the Renegades three weeks ago outfielder Maika Niu has shown a knack for late-game heroics. All three of his home runs have come in the ninth inning or later, and he is batting an absurd .417/.417/1.000 in Late/Close situations (seventh inning or later, game within three runs). In addition to a walk-off home run on 8/11 vs Wilmington, he also had a go-ahead two-run double in the eighth inning on 8/12 vs Wilmington.

WAPPINGERS BOMBERS: The Renegades have five players with double-digit home runs this season (Kyle West, 20; Eric Genther, 14, Josh Moylan, 13; Core Jackson, 12; and Roderick Arias, 12). In 2025 only Dillon Lewis (13) reached double-digit homers. Five players reach double figures in 2024. Camden Troyer is one homer away from joining the club.

129 HOMERS: The Renegades have hit 129 home runs this season, the fourth-most in team history and most since 2023. The Renegades surpassed their 2024 home run total of 100 with a Camden Troyer blast on 7/31, but the Renegades need seven more to surpass their 2022 total. The Renegades franchise record for home runs is 156, set in the 2021 season, their first as a New York Yankees affiliate.

GO WEST, YOUNG MAN: Renegades 1B Kyle West has clubbed a team-leading 20 home runs this season, the most by a Hudson Valley player since Tyler Hardman tied the franchise record with 22 in 2022. West's 20th long ball came on 8/28 vs Brooklyn, making him just the third Renegade in history to hit 20+ homers in a season. West trails only Hardman and Dan Grummitt (22, 1999) in the category.

15/15 VISION: With his 15th stolen base of the season on 8/16 vs Wilmington, Kyle West became the first-ever Renegades player to hit 15 home runs and steal 15 bases in a single season.

HOMER HAPPY: The Renegades have been tearing the cover off of the baseball since June. In their first series of June at Frederick, the Renegades clubbed 12 home runs in the series, about 27.3% of their season total at the time (12-of-44). The last time the Renegades hit at least 12 home runs in a single series was 7/25-7/30/2023 at Hickory when Hudson Valley hit 19 HR. It is the first time hitting at least a dozen home runs in a series at Heritage Financial Park since 9/7-9/11/2021 vs Brooklyn, when they hit 14 HR in a seven-game series. The Renegades have hit a homer in 51 of their last 72 games. Since the MLB trade deadline, the Renegades have hit 27 home runs in 23 games, including two four-homer games.

20+ TEAM: Four Renegades have worked on-base streaks of at least 20 games. C Eric Genther was the first to do so when he reached base in the first 21 games that he played this season. Then, Roderick Arias, Kaeden Kent, and Wilson Rodriguez all crested the 20-game on-base streak mark in the month of July. Arias currently has the longest on-base streak of the four at 23, and Eric Genther is the only Renegade to achieve the feat twice this season.

RUNNING WILD: Renegades opponents have stolen 310 bases this season, and are 320-for-380 (84.2%) on stolen base attempts this season. That is already the most steals allowed by the Renegades in a season in franchise history, surpassing the mark of 226 from 2025. Hudson Valley is allowing an average of 2.60 steals per game.

NO DOUBLES DEFENSE: The Renegades have turned the fewest double plays in MiLB this season (52). The teams with the second fewest turned this year, the Charleston RiverDogs (TB, A) and the Tampa Tarpons (NYY, A+), have turned 65 and 69 respectively. Hudson Valley is on pace to turn only 53 double plays this season, which would be the fewest of any full-season team in a non-shortened season since 2005 (excludes 120 game 2021 season). On 8/25, the Renegades turned 3 double plays for the first time in a single game this season. The last time the 'Gades turned three double plays in a game was 9/6/25 vs Greensboro.

ER-YAY: The Renegades boast the third-best ERA in High-A (4.18). With offense exploding across the minors, the 'Gades were one of just a handful of teams to have a sub-4.00 ERA for the first eight weeks of the season. However, their ERA jumped above 4.00 on 5/29 after Bowling Green scored 13 runs. The Renegades have led the SAL in ERA in four straight seasons (2022-25), including a 2.82 mark in 2025 which was the lowest team ERA in MiLB since 2019. Additionally, the Renegades have the lowest WHIP in High-A (1.33), and they have struck out a league-high 1246 batters.

TAKING MANY FOR THE TEAM: Renegades C Eric Genther was hit by a pitch on 8/28 to tie for the second-most HBPs in MiLB with 27. He became the Renegades all-time career HBP leader on 7/4, surpassing the previous high of 18 set by Cole Gabrielson. Through only 57 games played, Genther broke the Renegades single-season record for HBP, which belonged to Robby Price (2010) and Ryder Mathias (2005).

WORKING DEEP: For the first time as a New York Yankees affiliate (and for the first time since 1995), Renegades pitching has thrown four complete games in a season. The four pitchers to achieve the feat are Rory Fox (5/21 at Brooklyn and 7/23 at Wilmington), Franyer Herrera (6/28 at Bowling Green), and Bryce Cunnigham (8/1 vs Jersey Shore). Additionally, 10 Renegades starters have record starts of 7.0-plus innings pitched. Fox, Jack Cebert and Luis Serna have done it multiple times. The Renegades are one of three teams in MiLB with three pitchers who have multiple starts of 7.0-or-more innings pitched, joining the Columbia Fireflies (KC, A) and the Augusta GreenJackets (ATL, A).

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