NYPL Brooklyn Cyclones

Romero's Heroics Give BKLYN Sweep

August 18, 2019 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Brooklyn Cyclones News Release


CONEY ISLAND, NY - Yoel Romero was the hero on a Sunday night in Brooklyn, mashing a walk-off, two-run home run to give the Brooklyn Cyclones, the Short-Season Class A affiliate of the New York Mets, a doubleheader sweep of the Tri-City ValleyCats with 2-1 and 5-3 victories at MCU Park.

Game One - Brooklyn 2, Tri-City 1

W: Biddy (2-0)

L: Serrano (0-4)

SV: Mullenbach (5)

BIG MOMENTS

Jose Peroza and Raul Beracierta drew back-to-back, bases-loaded walks in the seventh to give the Cyclones a 2-1 lead.

Matt Mullenbach slammed the door with two scoreless innings to close the game, stranding the potential tying run at second in the ninth.

Both starting pitchers, Brooklyn's Garrison Bryant and Tri-City's Juan Pablo Lopez, tossed five scoreless innings on Saturday night before the first game of the series was paused and, after a 48-minute delay, suspended until Sunday due to fog.

KEY CYCLONES CONTRIBUTORS

Luke Ritter: 2-3, 2B, R, BB

Matt Mullenbach: SV, 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 K

Garrison Bryant: ND, 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 6 K

Game Two - Brooklyn 5, Tri-City 3 (8 inn.)

W: Leon (3-1)

L: Figueroa (0-2)

BIG MOMENTS

Leading off the bottom of the eighth, Yoel Romero crushed a two-run, walk-off home run to left field to give Brooklyn a 5-3 win and complete the twinbill sweep of Tri-City.

Nelson Leon set up the Cyclones' heroics with a scoreless top of the eighth inning, picking up the final out by tagging Tri-City's Korey Lee at home as he attempted to score on a wild pitch.

Tri-City knotted the game at 3-3 in the sixth on an RBI groundout from Luis Guerrero and a game-tying wild pitch.

Gavin Garay helped Brooklyn strike first in the second, booming an RBI double off the left-field wall to score Jake Mangum. Later in the inning, Garay made it 2-0 by scoring on a throwing error.

KEY CYCLONES CONTRIBUTORS

Yoel Romero: 1-4, HR, 2 RBI, R

Gavin Garay: 1-3, 2B, RBI, R

Nelson Leon: W, 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K

NEWS & NOTES

Yoel Romero's walk-off home run was the Cyclones' first in quite a while. Brooklyn's last game-ending tater came nearly eight years ago to the day, struck by Amauris Valdez against Tri-City on August 22, 2011 to give Brooklyn a 3-2 win in eight innings.

- Brooklyn celebrated its fourth walk-off win of the season, three of which have come in the last two weeks. Brooklyn is also now 6-3 in extra innings.

The Cyclones once again own sole possession of first place in the Wild Card, a half-game above Staten Island and Aberdeen and one game over Batavia.

WHAT'S NEXT

Cyclones vs. Tri-City - Monday, 7 p.m.

MCU Park - Coney Island, NY

Probables: RHP Nate Jones (0-1, 3.00) vs. RHP Ryan Gusto (First NYPL start)

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