Mets honor champion Cyclones at Citi Field
CONEY ISLAND — A day after Brooklyn clinched the New York Penn League championship by beating the Lowell Spinners 4-3, the Mets invited the Cyclones to Citi Field to be recognized as their 2019 Short Season A minor league affiliate champs. For the majority of the team, this would be their first visit to the park where they hope someday to play.
Current Met players and former Brooklyn player Brandon Nimmo (Cyclones 2012) and Robert Gsellman (Cyclones 2013) greeted the minor leaguers as they formed a line to watch batting practice. In addition to former Cyclones players, Met players Jed Lowrie and Robbie Cano who recently rehabbed with the Cyclones came over to the line of minor leaguers for handshakes and “selfies.”
In one of the closest playoff races in Cyclones history, “the Kids from Coney Island” took the playoff race down to the last day of the season by beating the Staten Island Yankees 4-1 at home on a nine-strikeout pitching performance by Long Island product Frank Valentino to capture the McNamara Division.