Brooklyn Cyclones Game Notes - 5/17/2024

 


Here are the Brooklyn Cyclone Game Notes for today's game.

The Brooklyn Cyclones (18-18) will try and halt a season-long four-game losing streak against the Bowling Green Hot Rods (20-16) — the High-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays — on Friday at 7:35 p.m. ET from Bowling Green Ballpark in Bowling Green, Ky.

 

RHP Douglas Orellana (0-0, 1.11) is expected to take the hill in his fourth start of the year for the Cyclones. The Hot Rods are projected to counter with RHP Alex Cook (2-2, 1.95).

  

Live coverage is available on the Bally Live app and the Cyclones Radio Network starting 15 minutes before the first pitch at 7:20 p.m. ET.

 

Full game notes are linked below.

 

LAST TIME OUT: The Cyclones were swept in Thursday's doubleheader against the Hot Rods...Brooklyn dropped Game 1, 1-0, and Game 2, 7-1...RHP Nolan McLean struck out a career-high nine over four innings in the lid-lifter, allowing just one unearned run…Wilfredo Lara was robbed of a game-tying solo home run with two out in the top of the seventh on an incredible leaping grab by LF Chandler Simpson...1B Nick Lorusso reached base three times in the nightcap on a pair of walks and a single...2B Junior Tilien tripled and scored on a 3B Jefrey De Los Santos RBI knock...RHP Jordany Ventura permitted one run on three hits over 3.2 innings in his first start of the year...The finale was tied at one into the fifth...Hot Rods scored four in the fifth and two in the sixth to close out the game.

 

MORABITO FUEL: OF Nick Morabito has reached safely all eight games since making his High-A and Cyclones debut last Tuesday night and enters play on Friday riding a 19-game on-base streak dating back to his time in the Florida State League…Since the streak began on April 20, the third-year pro is hitting .453/.545/.516/1.061 with 13 runs scored, four doubles, four RBI, and 14 stolen bases…The now 21-year-old leads Minor League Baseball in on-base percentage (.507)…He is also third in batting average (.389), fourth in wOBA (.483), and sixth in wRC+ (196)…Morabito is the only player at the full-season MiLB level with an OBP greater than .500 and holds a mark 10 points higher than anyone else…The McLean, Va. Native’s three stolen bases on Wednesday tied nine others for the franchise mark in a single game…Morabito became the first Cyclone to collect three swipes in a single game since LF Alex Ramírez accomplished the feat on July 21, 2023, at Hudson Valley.

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