The Atlantics brought base ball back to Brooklyn on Sunday as they hosted the Elizabeth Resolutes in an exhibition of the national pastime to a large crowd gathered for the Brooklyn Cyclones home match later that afternoon at MCU Park in Coney Island.
Mike 'Fatts' Caliendo and Matt 'Krawler' Kouyoumdjian called the plays and explained the rule differences from the PA Booth, Rafael 'Wickets' Garcia spoke to the fans on the concourse and Ed 'Pigtail' Elmore enforced the rules of base ball as they were played in Brooklyn in 1864.
Elizabeth managed a base runner in the first against Atlantic pitcher Marc 'Nice & Easy' Josloff but could not move him around the bases. Anthony 'Dirty Pirate' Cannino started the Atlantic rally in the bottom of the first with a single and then promptly stole second base. Dean 'Dreambucket' Emma stroked another single to move him to third and Kevin 'Flash' Harrison scored him from third on a bound out to the left fielder. Billy 'Goat' Kowalczyk followed that with a clean single to score the second ace of the inning.
While the Atlantic defense continued to suppress the Elizabeth bats the Atlantic offense came through again in the third inning as Chris 'Pup' Parente singled and Dreambucket hit the ball solidly for a stand-up double scoring Pup all the way from first base.
With a three ace lead the pressure was on Elizabeth who kept threatening with long outs to the outfield. Finally in the fifth inning Elizabeth put their hits together and scored two times closing the score to 3-2. With a strict time limit the exhibition game was called after the bottom of the fifth inning and the match ended to the cheers of the crowd.
Next weekend the Atlantics play a round-robin of overhand and underhand matches against the Providence Grays and Elizabeth Resolutes at the Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island and then travel to Connecticut to take on the New London Thames at Fort Trumbull State Park on Sunday.
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