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Cyclones’ Badamo baffles Renegades

Tosses Seven Near-Perfect Innings in 7-0 Win at Hudson Valley

July 2, 2015 By John Torenli, Sports Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Right-hander Tyler Badamo, who grew up coming to Cyclones games from his home in Mount Sinai, N.Y., earned his first win for Brooklyn Wednesday night with a near-perfect performance at Hudson Valley. Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Cyclones
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Tyler Badamo pitched well in his first two starts as a Brooklyn Cyclone, yielding two runs and going at least six innings in each outing.

But neither effort resulted in a victory for the 22-year-old right-hander from Mount Sinai, N.Y.

Badamo (1-1) made sure that wouldn’t be the case last Wednesday night in Hudson Valley.

The Mets’ 24th-round pick in the 2014 Draft pitched seven near-flawless innings of one-hit ball and faced the minimum number of batters during his first win of the year, a 7-0 whitewashing of the Renegades in front of 4,158 fans, including several members of his family, at Dutchess Stadium.

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“I felt pretty good out of the gate,” Badamo told MiLB.com after limiting the Renegades to a leadoff single by Nic Wilson in the bottom of the third while striking out four to lower his season ERA to 1.83.

“I had all four pitches working,” added Badamo, who has fanned 14 while issuing just four walks over 19 2/3 innings in his first three starts after going 1-0 with a 1.74 ERA in 10 appearances, including four starts, for the GCL Mets as a first-year pro last season.

Badamo, who visited MCU Park several times growing up and even played there as a high school All-Star from Long Island, revealed that his mother, sister, fiance, daughter, aunt and other relatives were all on hand to see him capture his first career Class A Advanced victory.

“This is now three starts in a row I’ve had 15-plus people in the crowd,” he told MiLB. “It’s nice to be home.”

Though he needed only 63 pitches to navigate his way through 24 batters, Badamo was pulled following the seventh inning.

“[Brooklyn manager Tom Gamboa] came up to me, said I was done and said I did a great job,” Badamo said. “He said we have two guys coming in that needed work who hadn’t thrown in seven days. I asked about my pitch count, but I shouldn’t have asked. I realized I was at 63 pitches.”

Craig Missigman worked around a double in the eighth and Carlos Valdez set the Renegades down in order in the ninth as McNamara Division-leading Brooklyn (8-4) improved to 5-1 on the road with its second shutout win of the young season.

The Cyclones also did some damage at the plate in support of their early season ace, amassing 12 hits, including two apiece from leadoff man and center fielder Tucker Tharp, right fielder Michael Bernal and third baseman David Thompson.

Michael Katz drew a bases-loaded walk in the opening frame and Jeff Diehl followed with an RBI single to left as Brooklyn moved in front to stay.

Badamo took care of the rest in what has to be considered his best outing as a pro.

He set down the first six batters he faced and got Danny De La Calle to hit into a 5-4-3 double play immediately after yielding his only hit of the night to Wilson in the third.

“I kept everything down in the zone,” Badamo noted. “My changeup was breaking well, I kept them off-balance. I don’t think they knew what was coming any time in the game.”

After that, Badamo retired 13 consecutive hitters, getting Cade Gotta on a fly-out to left for the final out of the seventh, and his evening on the hill.

“I felt good strength-wise.” said Badamo, who revealed that he and the team arrived in Hudson Valley in the wee hours Wednesday morning following their 3-2 loss in Auburn the night before.

“Apparently, four hours of sleep works for me,”

Four hours of sleep and four good pitches, all working for him at the same time.

This, That and the Other Thing: By going 2-for-3 with two runs scored and a walk on Wednesday, Bernal upped his season average to .342. A New York-Penn League All-Star at Brooklyn last summer, it’s likely Bernal won’t be with the Cyclones for the entire 76-game grind this year as higher levels will doubtlessly come calling for the Mets prospect. … Missigman and Valdez, who finished off Badamo’s gem Wednesday, have combined to throw 12 2/3 scoreless innings out of the Brooklyn bullpen thus far this season. … Catcher Nata Ramos and pinch-hitter Pedro Perez connected for their first homers Wednesday, in the sixth and seventh innings, respectively, giving Brooklyn a league high-tying eight long balls on the young season.


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