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.
“You could feel the electricity in the park tonight,” Gamboa admitted. “This game really meant something.”