Game Recap: Cyclones derailed by Dash, 7-5

Consuegra’s big day not enough as Brooklyn drops third straight

Brooklyn Cyclones Press Release By Johnny Gadamowitz (reprinted from milb.com/brooklyn by permission)

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (April 13, 2023) – Despite 12 total team hits, the Cyclones could not muster enough offense to mount a comeback down the stretch, falling to the Dash, 7-5, for a third-straight night.

RHP Kohl Simas recorded the win, serving as Winston-Salem’s starter. The righty held Brooklyn to just one run on six hits, with six strikeouts and a walk over five frames. Cyclones starter RHP Cameron Foster logged four innings of three-run ball, while striking out three and walking two. The Mets' 2022 14th-round pick was tagged with the loss.

RF Stanley Consuegra had his best game donning a Cyclones jersey so far this season. The Santo Domingo native knocked in four of Brooklyn’s five runs, all part of a 4-for-5 day at the plate.

Winston-Salem opened the scoring in the home half of the second inning, when C Iván González tripled home RF Wilfred Veras to plate the game’s first run.

The following inning, the Dash would continue to produce offensively. The Dash used another RBI triple - this time, off the bat of 2B Loidel Chapellí - to extend the lead.** Winston-Salem wasn’t done yet in the frame though, as Chapellí later scored off a sacrifice fly from DH **DJ Gladney to make it a 3-0 Dash lead.

Brooklyn’s response came in the top of the 5th, when the Cyclones notched their first run of the evening - a sharp RBI single from CF Alex Ramírez. The Dash quickly responded, though. In the bottom of the fifth inning, Winston-Salem scratched across another run with an RBI double from Gladney.

The bottom of the sixth saw the Dash continue to excel with the bats, and pad their 4-1 lead. First, LF Ben Norman plated González on an RBI double. Norman himself would then score moments later on a wild pitch from Brooklyn RHP Wilkin Ramos.

Facing a 6-1 deficit entering the seventh, the Cyclones cut into the Winston-Salem lead with a 2-run frame. Both tallies came on the same play: a 2-RBI double from Consuegra.

The Cyclones momentum was short-lived, though. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Winston-Salem added some insurance thanks to an RBI single from Chapellí to make it a 7-3 ballgame.

Still, the top of the ninth proved to have some drama. With two men on, and only one out, Consuegra cleared the basepaths on his second 2-run double of the evening. From there, 1B Jaylen Palmer was set down on strikes for the second out, before SS César Berbesi was hit by a pitch to bring the tying run to the plate. With the ‘Clones down to their final out, LF Omar De Los Santos grounded out to end the ballgame.

Brooklyn now aims its sights on a Friday night contest with the Dash, who have taken the first three games of the six game set. RHP Raimon Gómez (0-0, 40.50 ERA) gets the nod for Brooklyn in his second start of the season. Winston-Salem’s starter has yet to be announced. First pitch from Truist Stadium is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.