After Thursday evening’s victory over the Hudson Valley Renegades, the Brooklyn Cyclones came into Friday evening’s game three of the New York Penn League semi-finals one win away from a trip to the championship series. They fell behind in the top of the first, when Matt Cleveland gave up a solo homer to Hudson Valley’s Hill Alexander. The Cyclones tied the game in the bottom half of the inning on a sacrifice fly from Luke Ritter that allowed Antoine Duplantis to score from third. Hudson Valley scored a run in the second off of Cleveland, and a run in the third off of Dan Goggin to take a 3-1 lead. The Cyclones immediately went to work on tying the game in the bottom of the third, when Ranfy Adon hit a solo homer to bring the Cyclones within a run of the lead. The Cyclones tied the game in the bottom of the fourth on a passed ball that allowed Jake Mangum to score from third. From there the game remained tied 3-3 until the bottom of the ninth, when Yoel Romero walked to open the inning, and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt from Jake Ortega. Ranfy Adon cemented his place in Cyclones history with a walk-off double that allowed Romero to score and punched Brooklyn’s ticket to the New York Penn League Championship Series.

The Cyclones ultimately defeated the Renegades 4-3, and won the 2019 McNamara Division Championship. They will open up the New York Penn League Championship Series against the Lowell Spinners on the road in Lowell on Sunday, September 8 at 1:05 p.m. before returning home for the final two games of the series. This is the Cyclones’ first appearance in the NYPL Championship series since 2010.