Cyclones suffer final indignity of 2015
Watch Arch Rival Yanks Celebrate McNamara Crown at MCU Park
The worst season, by far, in the Brooklyn Cyclones’ 15-year history somehow got even worse on Monday night at Coney Island’s MCU Park.
The punch-less Baby Bums had to watch on in agony as the arch rival Staten Island Yankees celebrated clinching the McNamara Division title at their expense in front of 5,012 Brooklyn baseball fanatics, holding on for a 5-2 victory to deny the Cyclones a shot at playing spoiler in the regular-season finale for both clubs.
So while the Cyclones (33-43) limped back to their locker room without a playoff berth for the third consecutive summer, the Yankees (41-34) were crowned champions of the division and went into all-out party mode on Brooklyn’s home field in advance of their best-of-three first-round playoff series with Tri-City, which will begin Wednesday night in Staten Island.