
Tuesday was a big night for the Brooklyn Cyclones, as they played their first home game in more than 600 days, celebrated their 2019 New York-Penn League championship, and, after 20 years as a short-season affiliate of the Mets, brought full-season baseball back to Brooklyn. The Cyclones’ 4-3 loss to the Hudson Valley Renegades marked the first professional game in the borough in May since 1957, a game on the 26th in which Sandy Koufax (the namesake of the Cyclones’ original mascot — the one on the left is Pee Wee) beat the Giants, 5-3, backed by a Duke Snider homer at Ebbets Field.