Staff Report
Wade Gaynor and John Murrian had two hits apiece Saturday, but the Oneonta Tigers lost their seventh straight New York-Penn League game.
Winning pitcher Mark Cohoon scattered five singles, struck out four and walked one to lead the Brooklyn Cyclones to a 5-0 victory at Damaschke Field.
Attendance is listed at 418 in Saturday's box score on the website minorleaguebaseball.com, but 130 fans were present when the seven-inning game started under partly cloudy skies.
The two teams were scheduled to play two seven-inning games Saturday as rain washed out Friday night's meeting. But a steady downpour that lasted more than an hour hit the area shortly after McNamara Division leader Brooklyn (43-24) won the opener.
Although the infield tarp was in place throughout the storm, water saturated Damaschke's outfield. The second game never started as umpires Thomas Newsom and Joe Muenzer called it off at 9 p.m.
Brooklyn scored once in the fourth and four times in the sixth en route to winning their second series against the Tigers this season. The Cyclones, 4-3 winners over Oneonta on Thursday, took 2 of 3 games from the Tigers during an Aug. 14-16 series at Brooklyn.
Dock Doyle sparked both innings with leadoff hits.
He singled in the fourth and later scored on Alex Gregory's sacrifice fly to right field off losing pitcher Jose Diaz (0-3, 8.38 ERA) for a 1-0 Brooklyn lead.
In the sixth, lefty Doyle turned on a Diaz pitch and sent it over the right-field fence for his first homer of the season. The Cyclones then batted around and scored three more runs.
Richard Lucas and Luis Rivera followed Doyle's homer with back-to-back singles, putting runners at the corners to chase Diaz. Reliever Michael Morrison then allowed an RBI single by Sam Honeck and a single to Gregory that plated two runs to cap the scoring. Both singles went to right fielder Alexis Espinoza, charged with a two-base fielding error after slipping on the grass and allowing the ball to skip past.
Morrison got Ralph Henriquez to fly out to short center, then walked John Servidio. Matthew Gaski followed with a chopper to first baseman Rawley Bishop, who threw out Gregory at home.
Morrison then walked Jordany Valdespin, loading the bases for Doyle's second at-bat of the inning. Doyle, who finished 3-for-4 with two runs and an RBI, struck out looking.
Gaynor and Murrian led off the second and fourth innings with back-to-back singles but were stranded both times.
In the second, Cohoon (9-2, 2.17) got Keith Hernandez to line out to shortstop; Luis Palacios to fly out to center; and Carmelo Jaime to ground out to second. In the fourth, Hernandez advanced the runners with a sacrifice bunt, but Palacios popped out to shortstop and Jaime popped out to first.
Bishop had Oneonta's other single, a two-out grounder to right in the third, but Cohoon struck out Alexis Espinoza swinging.
The O-Tigers fell, 8-1, to the Hudson Valley Renegades on Sunday, extending their season-worst skid to eight losses in a row.
Cyclones 5, O-Tigers 0
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