After rain – and tornado watches – postponed postseason action in the NYPL, Brooklyn and Hudson Valley got back to business. Well, Hudson Valley got back to business…
Hudson Valley 8, Brooklyn 1
The Cyclones were back to their old trick, employing the game plan of “let’s do the bare minimum on offense and hope the pitching carries us through”. That’s not a good philosophy for post season baseball and, as you can imagine, it did not work yesterday evening in Beacon. NYPL strikeout leader Luis Mateo took the hill for Brooklyn, but he was hittable (5Ip, 3R, 2ER, 6H, 2BB, 4K). In fact, the two walks were rather eye-opening since he only allowed nine for the entire regular season. He left trailing 3-1, but the bullpen – specifically Logan Taylor (three runs in two thirds of an innings) and Matt Koch (two runs in an inning) threw gasoline on the fire and turned this into a laugher. Eudy Pina cracked a solo homer as part of a 2 for 3 effort, Dimas Ponce was 2 for 4, and both Brandon Nimmo and Phillip Evans collected a hit apiece.
The decisive Game Three will be played tonight in Hudson Valley. Luis Cessa will toe the rubber for Brooklyn. A few miles up the road in Troy, Auburn and Tri-City will play a Game Three of their own. Big night in the New York-Penn League.
1 comment
Stickguy
9/10/2012-8:07am at 8:07 am (UTC -4)
how can an organization, from top (majors) to bottom be so completely bereft of offensive ability?
do they even have 10 legitimately good offensive players for their level? there is 1 on the Mets, maybe 1 was at buffalo, Flores at Bingo, Nimmo (with the young for his level bonus) and is that it?
so a total of 4 hitters in the system?
this pitching better be damned good, because 1973 is looking like the Roids age compared to what we have now.