"The title capped a strong season in Brooklyn that saw the Cyclones amass a franchise record 72 regular-season wins and sweep their way through the playoffs, knocking out the Greensboro Grasshoppers in the divisional series before downing the Spartanburgers in two games to take the title. The Cyclones' two runs in the Tuesday clincher both came in the top of the third inning after Bay, the left fielder, kicked off the frame with a triple before shortstop Marco Vargas and DH Matt Rudick delivered run-scoring singles."
"The Cyclones used six different pitchers over the course of the night, combining to yield just one run on five hits. They struck out 11 batters. Hub City's Rafe Perich drove in its only run of the night in the eighth inning with two outs, but Brooklyn reliever Brett Banks worked his way out of a bigger jam with the Spartanburgers threatening to tie the game with two outs and the bases loaded. Banks managed to get Antonis Macias to ground out to short in a five-pitch at-bat to end the threat."
The Brooklyn Cyclones captured the 2025 South Atlantic League championship with a 2-1 win over the Hub City Spartanburgers, completing a postseason sweep and earning the franchise's third title. The championship was the first since the Cyclones moved to the full-season South Atlantic League in 2021; the previous title came in 2019 as a short-season New York-Penn League team. Brooklyn set a franchise record with 72 regular-season wins. The clincher produced two runs in the third after John Bay's triple and RBI singles from Marco Vargas and Matt Rudick. Six pitchers combined to allow one run on five hits and recorded 11 strikeouts; Brett Banks escaped a bases-loaded, two-out jam in the eighth, and Dakota Hawkins was credited with the win after 2 2/3 innings of relief.
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