NYPL Brooklyn Cyclones

Yanks beat Cyclones 18-0

Published on June 20, 2006 under New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Brooklyn Cyclones News Release


Brooklyn, NY- The Cyclones' 2006 season kicked off on Tuesday night, with a Home Opener against the Staten Island Yankees. The team created the "longest first pitch in history" earlier in the day with a motorcade from Brooklyn Borough Hall that delivered the ball to the ballpark after a journey throughout the borough.

After the festivities, the game finally got underway, and Staten Island jumped out to an early three-run lead in the first inning-from which Brooklyn never recovered. The Yankees went on to score in every inning but the eighth and ninth, with the final outcome never truly in doubt, and the final score at 18-0.

KeySpan Park was filled to over capacity once again, with 9,004 fans in attendance for the first game of the season. Despite the lopsided shutout, those fans were treated to a few bright spots from the Cyclones, as Wantagh native and Stony Brook alumni Nick Abel pitched the only back-to-back scoreless innings of the night. In addition, the Cyclones had runners on base in nearly every inning, with 1B Junior Contreras notching two hits in two at-bats with two walks, and CF Will Bashelor going 2-for-3.

The Yankees' Keaton Everitt earned his first win of the season, giving him a mark of 1-0, while Jorge Reyes suffered the loss (0-1).

The Cyclones and Yankees will face off again tomorrow in Staten Island, before the home-and-home series wraps up at KeySpan Park on Thursday, with a 7pm game in Brooklyn. The first 2,500 fans in attendance on 6/22 will receive a KeySpan Park Tin, courtesy of KeySpan.

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