The Yanks are coming: Brooklyn gears us for series with Staten Island
The standings say the first-place Brooklyn Cyclones shouldn’t have much to worry about during this week’s four-game series with the third-place Staten Island Yankees, who are struggling to stay in contention in the McNamara Division 30 games into the 76-game grind of the New York-Penn League schedule.
But when it comes to Cyclones-Yankees, you can throw records and standings out the window.
“Always gotta beat Staten Island,” Brooklyn shortstop Phillip Evans said of the Verrazano rivalry following the season’s first series of the season between the clubs last month. “Yankees-Mets is a crazy rivalry and we try to keep it going down here. We always try to win that ballgame for sure.”