Cyclones bury Bombers with walk-off win
Brooklyn Continues Playoff Push, Stays Two Ahead of Connecticut
News, both good and bad, travels fast when you’re in the thick of a hotly contested playoff chase.
First-year Brooklyn manager Tom Gamboa was in the dugout Wednesday night at MCU Park when he heard that Connecticut’s Franklin Navarro had connected for a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the ninth inning, lifting the playoff-hopeful Tigers to a thrilling 5-4 victory over Lowell.
That stunning result suddenly upped the ante on the Cyclones’ ongoing tooth-and-nail extra-inning struggle with Staten Island during the Baby Bums’ penultimate home game of the summer in front of 7,786 Brooklyn baseball enthusiasts on Coney Island.