NL All-Stars 7, AL All-Stars 3

The Brooklyn Cyclones were well represented in the 2011 New York-Penn League All-Star Game.  The game was played in Lowell, Massachusetts, home of the Lowell Spinners, the Boston Red Sox NYPL affiliate.

Danny Muno (1-2, 2B, 2RBI) hit a two-run double in the top of the ninth, to give the NL side a 6-3 lead. Richard Lucas (0-2,k) and Charley Thurber (0-4, run) also appeared in the game representing the Cyclones.

On the mound, T.J. Chism and Todd Weldon combined to strike out the side in the ninth to seal the win for the NL All-Stars.

Travis Taijeron and Tyson Seng were named to the All-Star team, but did not play in the game.

MiLB.com did a piece on the Cyclones third-baseman Richard Lucas.  Lucas, 22, is hitting .309/.402/.487, with 4 home runs, 29 RBI, 26 bb, 46 k for the Cyclones this season.  Last season Lucas played for St. Lucie and hit .212/.285/.339 with 11 home runs, 52 RBI, 34 bb, 149 k.

Lucas talks about his struggles last year:

Last year I got up there and started out pretty good the first couple weeks, then I just tried to do too much every time up at the plate.  Just every pitch, trying to hit a home run. Usually got out of my rhythm, got out of my old approach.

And is determination to prove his critics wrong:

You can’t help but look on the Internet sometimes and obviously it’s all out there, people saying, ‘You’re not going to make it’ … this and that, but I’ve been told that a lot before.  Even before I got drafted, they told me I wasn’t going to get drafted, they told me I wasn’t going to get a scholarship. That’s just more motivation to go out there and play hard.