BROOKLYN - Fifty-six years had gone by since Brooklyn last hosted an All-Star game.
Glenn Gaston / Special to The Citizen
Auburn Doubledays' Jermy Acey makes contact with a pitch during Wednesday night's game against the Batavia Muckdogs. The Doubledays lost 10-0.
Auburn Doubledays' Jermy Acey makes contact with a pitch during Wednesday night's game against the Batavia Muckdogs. The Doubledays lost 10-0.
On Tuesday night, a near-record crowd of 9,054 at KeySpan Park was not disappointed.
The National League farm clubs beat the American League, in a 5-4 nail-biter in the first-ever New York-Penn League All-Star game in its 66-year history
"The league has been around since 1939 and traditionally short-season leagues don't have all-star games," league president Ben Hayes said. "We've been talking about it for the last couple of years and we finally decided, we've got 14 clubs, seven National League clubs and seven American, it felt like a natural thing to do. And bringing them in August gives them enough time to build up stats so that you can actually pick them."
The American League, which rallied from a 5-1 eighth-inning deficit to cut it to 5-4, almost came back in the ninth; loading the bases on consecutive singles by Oneonta's Cory Middleton and Auburn's Brian Bormaster and Oneonta's Justin Justice's two-out walk.
But New Jersey's Jeremy Zick induced Mahoning Valley's Jose Costanza to ground out to second to end the game.
"We didn't win, but we made a good run there at the end, and we had a chance to tie and a chance to go ahead," Patton said "That's all you can ask for, to give yourselves opportunities. When teams come together like this, it's tough to play well together and I thought we did that - we did a good job and came up a little short."
The National League's Gabby Sanchez was named the game's Most Valuable Player, as the Jamestown catcher's two-run bases-loaded single capped off a four-run rally in the bottom of the fifth.
Trailing 1-0 and having managed just one hit off Staten Island starter David Seccombe and Lowell's Ryan Phillips, the National League batted around off Hudson Valley's Wade Davis, who picked up the loss.
Williamsport's Steven Pearce led off with a single, Batavia's Clay Harris walked, and New Jersey's Chad Gabriel was hit in the back to load the bases. Vermont's Leonard Davis and Tri-City's Wladimir Sutil then hit back-to-back RBI singles and Sanchez drove in Gabriel and Davis with two-outs to bring the score to 4-1.
The National League, managed by Williamsport's Tom Prince, tacked on another run in the sixth on an RBI groundout by New Jersey's Sean Danielson.
Vermont's Wendell Yost, who pitched a scoreless fifth, picked up the win.
The American League rallied in the eighth as Bormaster led off with a single to center off Batavia's Kyle Kendrick. Lowell's Jed Lowrie then reached on a error by Vermont third baseman Leonard Davis.
Staten Island's Eduardo Nunez then singled to right to score Bormaster. Kendrick struck out the next two batters but Aberdeen's Mark Fleisher hit a roller to right that Davis dove could not field as Lowrie scored to make it 5-3.
Mahoning Valley's Matt Fornasiere followed with an RBI double to cut the deficit to one. Zick came on in relief and induced Hudson Valley's Garrett Groce to fly out to right.
The American League scored first in the second, as the Doubledays' Ryan Patterson led off with a hit up the middle. Staten Island's Kyle Larsen, who received a mix of boos and cheers from the rival Brooklyn crowd, followed with a run-scoring triple off Brooklyn's own Bobby Parnell, who started for the National League and struck out four in two innings.
Staten Island's Andy Stankiewicz, the American League manager, said the talent on display were plenty for fans to be excited: "These guys, they're young and they're studs and they're just up-and-comers in the game, and they're exciting to be around, full of energy. It's been neat."
The National League farm clubs beat the American League, in a 5-4 nail-biter in the first-ever New York-Penn League All-Star game in its 66-year history
"The league has been around since 1939 and traditionally short-season leagues don't have all-star games," league president Ben Hayes said. "We've been talking about it for the last couple of years and we finally decided, we've got 14 clubs, seven National League clubs and seven American, it felt like a natural thing to do. And bringing them in August gives them enough time to build up stats so that you can actually pick them."
The American League, which rallied from a 5-1 eighth-inning deficit to cut it to 5-4, almost came back in the ninth; loading the bases on consecutive singles by Oneonta's Cory Middleton and Auburn's Brian Bormaster and Oneonta's Justin Justice's two-out walk.
But New Jersey's Jeremy Zick induced Mahoning Valley's Jose Costanza to ground out to second to end the game.
"We didn't win, but we made a good run there at the end, and we had a chance to tie and a chance to go ahead," Patton said "That's all you can ask for, to give yourselves opportunities. When teams come together like this, it's tough to play well together and I thought we did that - we did a good job and came up a little short."
The National League's Gabby Sanchez was named the game's Most Valuable Player, as the Jamestown catcher's two-run bases-loaded single capped off a four-run rally in the bottom of the fifth.
Trailing 1-0 and having managed just one hit off Staten Island starter David Seccombe and Lowell's Ryan Phillips, the National League batted around off Hudson Valley's Wade Davis, who picked up the loss.
Williamsport's Steven Pearce led off with a single, Batavia's Clay Harris walked, and New Jersey's Chad Gabriel was hit in the back to load the bases. Vermont's Leonard Davis and Tri-City's Wladimir Sutil then hit back-to-back RBI singles and Sanchez drove in Gabriel and Davis with two-outs to bring the score to 4-1.
The National League, managed by Williamsport's Tom Prince, tacked on another run in the sixth on an RBI groundout by New Jersey's Sean Danielson.
Vermont's Wendell Yost, who pitched a scoreless fifth, picked up the win.
The American League rallied in the eighth as Bormaster led off with a single to center off Batavia's Kyle Kendrick. Lowell's Jed Lowrie then reached on a error by Vermont third baseman Leonard Davis.
Staten Island's Eduardo Nunez then singled to right to score Bormaster. Kendrick struck out the next two batters but Aberdeen's Mark Fleisher hit a roller to right that Davis dove could not field as Lowrie scored to make it 5-3.
Mahoning Valley's Matt Fornasiere followed with an RBI double to cut the deficit to one. Zick came on in relief and induced Hudson Valley's Garrett Groce to fly out to right.
The American League scored first in the second, as the Doubledays' Ryan Patterson led off with a hit up the middle. Staten Island's Kyle Larsen, who received a mix of boos and cheers from the rival Brooklyn crowd, followed with a run-scoring triple off Brooklyn's own Bobby Parnell, who started for the National League and struck out four in two innings.
Staten Island's Andy Stankiewicz, the American League manager, said the talent on display were plenty for fans to be excited: "These guys, they're young and they're studs and they're just up-and-comers in the game, and they're exciting to be around, full of energy. It's been neat."
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