'Gades cruise past Cyclones in game with big playoff implications
Wappingers Falls, N.Y. – The Hudson Valley Renegades won their second straight game against the Brooklyn Cyclones, taking Saturday night’s contest at Heritage Financial Park 7-3. The Renegades have won 16 of their last 20 games, their best 20-game stretch this season and have improved to nine-games over .500 in
Wappingers Falls, N.Y. – The Hudson Valley Renegades won their second straight game against the Brooklyn Cyclones, taking Saturday night’s contest at Heritage Financial Park 7-3.
The Renegades have won 16 of their last 20 games, their best 20-game stretch this season and have improved to nine-games over .500 in the second half of the season.
Hudson Valley is five games over .500 overall on the season, one shy of their season high-water mark of six games over .500.
The Renegades got hits in all of the first five innings and six of the eight innings in which they came to bat.
Brooklyn did not have a base runner after the sixth inning after stranding eight runners on base through six innings.
Three of the Renegades’ first five hits were for extra bases, and two were home runs.
Both the Renegades and the Cyclones hit a batter with a pitch for a second straight night. This series, the Cyclones have hit six Renegades batters.
Renegades pitching walked five Cyclones. Hudson Valley has walked 31 Brooklyn batters this week. Brooklyn did not walk a batter for the first time in a game this series.
In each of the Renegades’ three wins this week, they’ve won after the Cyclones scored first. Hudson Valley is 26-36 this season when opponents score first.
Cyclones pitching struck out 12 Renegades. Brooklyn has 50 strikeouts through five games in the current series.
Hudson Valley pitching struck out eight Cyclones. The Renegades also have 47 strikeouts through five games.
The Renegades move to 15-7 overall against Brooklyn, 8-3 at home, and 5-3 in the second half.
The Renegades moved to 0.5 games back of the Greensboro Grasshoppers and the second half playoff spot with the result of the Grasshoppers game on Saturday still pending.
With a Greensboro loss the Renegades would move into a tie for the second half playoff spot, the first time the Renegades would be in possession of a playoff spot since 5/2.
Renegades starting pitchers have thrown a combined 42.0 IP, 28 H, 9 R, 9 ER, 19 BB, 44 K in the last nine games.
RHP Sean Paul Liñan (5.0 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 4 K, 1 HR) has not allowed more than three earned runs in an appearance with the Renegades since 7/12 vs Rome.
Liñan allowed a base runner in each inning he pitched, and he allowed a hit in all but one.
Liñan has walked multiple batters in each appearance with the Renegades since 6/7 at Frederick.
Liñan has allowed a home run in back-to-back starts with the Renegades and in three of his last four.
Cyclones runners stole four bases while Liñan was pitching. Liñan’s stolen base total this season is up to 40 which is 12.5% of opponent’s stolen bases against the Renegades this season.
1B Kyle West (2-for-4, 2B, R, RBI, K) has three multi-hit performances in a row.
West is 6-for-16 (.375) this series against Brooklyn with 2B, 3B, HR, 2 R, 3 RBI, 5 K.
West is up to 74 RBIs on the season, the second-highest total in team history and five shy of Tyler Hardman’s team-record 79 set in 2022.
SS Jackson Lovich (2-for-4, 2 R, HR, RBI, K) has gotten on base in 14 of his last 15 games played.
Saturday night marked Lovich’s first multi-hit performance since 8/23 at Jersey Shore, and his 10th with the Renegades this season.
The home run was Lovich’s 22nd of the season between the Renegades and Tampa Tarpons, and his 84 RBIs are the most of any Yankees minor leaguer this year.
C Eric Genther (1-for-4, 2 K) extended his team-high on-base streak to 13 games.
Genther is hitting .265/.400/.510 over the stretch with 3 2B, 3 HR, 9 R, 10 RBI, 10 BB, 10 K, 2-for-2 SB.
LF Dean Toigo (1-for-4, 2B, R, RBI, K) has gotten on base in 15 of his first 16 professional games.
1B David McCann (2-for-2, HR, 2 R, 2 RBI, 2 HBP) hit his seventh home run in just his 17th game played with the Renegades.
McCann got on base every time he came up to the plate for the first time as a Renegade and the second time this year.
The first time McCann did so was with Single-A Tampa on 6/30 when he went 2-for-2 with HR, 2 R, RBI, BB, HBP.
2B Bryce Martin-Grudzielanek (1-for-4, CS) extended his hitting streak to five games.
3B Hans Montero (2-for-4, RBI, K) grabbed his third multi-hit performance in as many games.
Montero is 6-for-10 (.600) against Brooklyn this week with 2B, R, RBI, 3 BB, 2 K.
RHP Brandon Decker (3.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K) has not allowed an earned run in nine of his last 10 outings.
Decker didn’t allow a run to score across 3.0+ innings of work for just a second time this season.
The first occasion was on 4/14 at Frederick when Decker dealt 4.2 relief innings of four hit, zero run baseball, although that was him resuming a suspended game when he would have been that day’s regularly scheduled starting pitcher, so it was not a traditional relief outing.
RHP Wilmy Sanchez (1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K) has not allowed an earned run in four of his last six outings.