Having managed fewer than three runs in eight of their previous nine games and coming off their fifth shutout loss of the season and second in three days, the Brooklyn Cyclones were in search of an elixir for their offensive woes.

They found it in Batavia, N.Y., — of all places — on Tuesday night.

Luis Rivera fell a triple shy of the cycle, drove in two runs and scored twice to pace a 14-hit attack as the Cyclones rallied for a 15-11 road victory over the MuckDogs in front of 757 fans at Dwyer Stadium.

Mired in a deep offensive funk and looking over their shoulders at hard-charging Staten Island and Hudson Valley in the ever-tightening McNamara Division {read more...}

With just over a month to go in their season, the Brooklyn Cyclones are suddenly in the midst of a three-way race for the McNamara Division title, and are no longer in sole possession of the best record in the New York-Penn League.

But why dwell on the negative?

After all, the Cyclones shouldn’t have been expected to live up to the best start in franchise history – they were 16-2 on July 7 — all summer, nor {read more...}

Imagine sitting through a 2½-hour rain delay, only to watch your team suffer a tough loss to its biggest rival.

The smattering of diehard Brooklyn fans remaining from the announced crowd of 6,248 at KeySpan Park on Wednesday night don’t have to imagine it at all.

They lived it.

The opener of the Cyclones’ much-anticipated final regular-season series against the Staten Island Yankees didn’t go exactly as planned for the McNamara Division leaders and owners of {read more...}

Collin McHugh was denied his third straight win Tuesday afternoon as the Brooklyn offense failed to back up its Opening Day starter in a 2-1 loss to the visiting Aberdeen IronBirds before 5,291 fans at KeySpan Park.

On the eve of their fourth and final regular-season series with the archrival Staten Island Yankees, Cyclones batters were baffled by Aberdeen starter Patrick Kantakevich (2-2) and relievers Kevin Landry and Joshua Dowdy, barely averting their fourth shutout loss of the {read more...}

Pedro Lopez admitted he was both mentally and physically exhausted. And that was even before Tuesday night’s 14-inning marathon win over Aberdeen.

The first-year Cyclones manager had just watched his league-leading unit lay a three-game whipping on archrival Staten Island in the third installment of this summer’s Verrazano Series, and put the 76-game New York-Penn League grind into perspective.

“We’ve never been through this before. It’s a learning process,� Lopez said following Brooklyn’s wild 10-9 victory over the error-plagued Yankees at Richmond County Bank Ballpark on Monday. “It’s really {read more...}

The bus ride back to Coney Island from Vermont was doubtlessly a bit more bearable for the Cyclones last Wednesday night, thanks to the pitching of Collin McHugh.

Or should we just go ahead and call him “McHuge�.

The 6-foot-2, 195-pound right-hander from Covington, Georgia gave Brooklyn exactly what it needed after a tough 2-0 loss in the opener of the doubleheader.

The Mets’ 18th-round pick in last year’s Draft held the Lake Monsters at bay while the Baby Bums put up six quick runs en route to a {read more...}

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The Brooklyn Cyclones may still own the best record in the New York-Penn League entering tomorrow night’s series opener with visiting Staten Island.

But the Baby Bums have to deal with the fact that they are only the third-hottest team in their division as the run for the playoffs begins.

First-year manager Pedro Lopez’ squad has gone just 5-8 since a franchise-record 16-2 start.

Nothing to worry about under normal circumstances, but the rival Yankees and Hudson Valley {read more...}

Brandon Moore is always in control — especially on the mound.

That’s why the Cyclones’ undisputed ace was the perfect candidate to play stopper last Wednesday night at KeySpan Park, striking out a season-high nine over eight tough innings, as Brooklyn bested visiting Williamsport, 4-3, to end its uncharacteristic four-game slide.

“The best pitch in baseball is strike one,� Cyclones manager Pedro Lopez is fond of saying. “Whenever a pitcher does that, he’s going to be {read more...}

Brooklyn’s KeySpan Park will be the center of the New York baseball universe over the next few days as the Yankees and Mets enjoy the annual All-Star break.

The only problem is, the Cyclones haven’t exactly been playing like prime-time performers.

“It’s just our luck that they’re playing terrible right now,� said WFAN morning drive host Craig Carton, who was scheduled to do the radio call of last night’s game against Williamsport with partner and former NFL {read more...}

To say that first-year managers Pedro Lopez of Brooklyn and Josh Paul of Staten Island have taken different paths to the second installment of the Verrazano Series between the Cyclones and Yankees this weekend would be an understatement as large as the body of water separating the two boroughs.

While Lopez has watched his team run out to a league-best and franchise-record 16-3 start, Paul has had to contend with overcoming six losses in his team’s first seven games, {read more...}

Little things mean a lot.

The Cyclones have been providing evidence of such on a nightly basis at beautiful KeySpan Park, and were at it again Tuesday evening in front of just over 5,000 Brooklyn baseball fanatics.

Southpaw Mark Cohoon became the New York-Penn League’s first four-game winner as the Baby Bums edged the visiting Aberdeen IronBirds, 3-2, on Jewish Heritage Night, lifting their perfect home record to 9-0 and giving them a season-high 10 wins in a row {read more...}

If they could stuff the ingredients for winning baseball in a jar, Cyclones manager Pedro Lopez’ face would have to be plastered across the label like Orville Redenbacher’s.

Brooklyn’s first-year skipper has already infused this young, talented group with a zest for victory that has the Mets’ Short-Season franchise by the sea off to a 15-2 start — the best ever since the re-birth of pro baseball in our fair borough eight summers ago.

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Baracklyn, Brooklyn — call it whatever you’d like. The first-place Cyclones just call it home.

And thus far this season, they’ve been unbeatable within the friendly confines of Coney Island’s KeySpan Park, improving to 3-0 with an impressive 7-3 victory over the Hudson Valley Renegades on Tuesday night in front of nearly 9,000 fans eager to pick up a piece of Presidential memorabilia.

The much-anticipated “Baracklyn Cyclones� night more than lived up to expectations, with fans lining up hours before {read more...}

Darin Gorski and Nick Santomauro showed up in Brooklyn just in time for Opening Night.

Arriving the day before this evening’s season opener against the rival Staten Island Yankees (weather permitting), the duo is expected to provide the Cyclones with a hard-throwing left-handed pitcher (Gorski) and a slugging outfielder with a Dartmouth education (Santomauro).

With the release of their 25-man roster for the upcoming season, a two-day promotional tour through Prospect Park and Borough Hall and {read more...}