Cyclones ‘drop’ two, fall into second place
Three errors in seventh cost Brooklyn top spot in McNamara Division
After having their season high-tying five-game winning streak snapped with a 6-2 loss to Lowell at Coney Island’s MCU Park on Tuesday evening, the Brooklyn Cyclones appeared primed for a bounce-back victory in the nightcap of the doubleheader.
But a trio of errors in the top of the seventh inning led to a heartbreaking 4-3 defeat to the Spinners in Game 2, dropping Brooklyn out of first place in the tight McNamara Division race and sending a disappointed crowd of 3,159 fans back onto Surf Avenue with a pair of losses instead of one feel-good win.
Cyclones starter Mitch Ragan, who has allowed one earned run or fewer in eight of his nine outings this summer, teamed with middle reliever Jared Biddy to hold Lowell to two runs on five hits with six strikeouts and no walks over the first five frames of the nightcap.
Matt Mullenbach (1-1) tamed the Spinners in the top of the sixth but was undone by his own misplay and a couple of others by Brooklyn outfielders in the seventh.