(Jacob Resnick/MetsMinors.Net)
When the games don’t end in extra innings at MCU Park, they start in rain delays. Fans waited 75 minutes before the Cyclones embarked on their Friday night match up with the Hudson Valley Renegades.
Brooklyn ultimately fell to Hudson Valley by a score of 2-0.
The only run on the board through the first seven innings came in the top of the second, when C Daniel De La Calle drove in RF Angel Perez with a single. Earlier in the inning, 3B Jim Haley, tagging from second base on a fly ball to center field, had been called out on appeal for leaving the base early.
Cyclones starter Gabriel Llanes turned in his best outing of the season on Friday, allowing only the unearned run in the second inning on five hits and a walk. He bounced back from a rough appearance his last time out, one where he took his second loss of the season, allowing five runs on seven hits in five innings.
Llanes struggled to control the running game all night, as the Renegades were able to swipe five bags in seven attempts off the right-hander. Hudson Valley sits atop the New York-Penn League with 38 stolen bases on the season.
Unfortunately for Llanes, the Cyclones bats were M.I.A. CF Jacob Zanon picked up the team’s only hit, a single in the fourth inning. Zanon also reached on a fielder’s choice in the sixth inning and subsequently stole his fifth and sixth bases of the season.
Gabriel Feliz worked a 1-2-3 seventh inning, but Gary Cornish allowed a run to score with two outs in the eighth, giving the Renegades an insurance run. Joseph Zanghi turned in his sixth scoreless outing of the season in the ninth.
The Cyclones continue their series with Hudson Valley on Saturday at 6:00. The team will be celebrating “Full House night” and all fans will receive a John Stamos bobblehead.
Mets second-round pick 1B Peter Alonso has joined the Cyclones and was activated on Friday. He is scheduled to make his professional debut on Saturday. Fourth-round pick SS Michael Paez,who won the College World Series with Coastal Carolina, is expected to report to Brooklyn this weekend and has already been added to the roster.
