Ynoa he’s good: Brooklyn hurler pitches ‘Clones to seventh shutout
It’s a credit to Cyclones pitching coach Marc Valdes that his young hurlers expect performances like the one they got out of Gabriel Ynoa on Tuesday night in Lowell, Mass.
The 19-year-old Dominican right-hander, one of four Cyclones pitchers selected to next week’s New York-Penn League All-Star Game, tossed a season-high seven innings of four-hit ball with eight strikeouts and no walks as Brooklyn blanked Lowell, 1-0, for its circuit-leading seventh shutout of the season before 3,311 fans at LeLacheur Park.
Ynoa (4-1) set the tone for the aptly nicknamed Baby Bums’ league-best staff on Opening Day, pitching Brooklyn to a 2-0 victory over archrival Staten Island at MCU Park on June 18. The 6-foot-2, 158-pound third-year pro hasn’t slowed down since, going at least six innings in each of his nine outings while yielding two runs or fewer eight times.