Late heroics helped the Staten Island Yankees prevail over the Hudson Valley Renegades for the second consecutive night to sweep the home-and-home series.
The wildcard leading Baby Bombers used a two-run ninth inning rally to get past Hudson Valley in dramatic fashion 5-4 before 2,346 at Richmond County Bank Ballpark Monday night.

It was their sixth win in the last eight and lifted their record to a season best 27-19- keeping them half a game ahead of Oneonta (27-20) who prevailed over Lowell for the second straight night.

The Bombers also pulled within four of McNamara Division leading Brooklyn, who fell to Aberdeen at home 11-5.

A night after blowing an eight-run lead at Hudson Valley before scoring five times to pull out a wild 13-8 extra inning win, Mike Gillespie’s ballclub this time rallied to comeback from two three-run deficits in the first two innings by pulling out the victory in their final at bat.

Before starter Chris Farley even retired a batter, he put the first three on base via an infield hit and two walks. Two sac flies and a Stephen Vogt RBI single immediately put Staten Island in a three-run hole.

The Bombers got one back in the home half thanks to a Jose Gil sacrifice fly which scored leadoff man Justin Snyder who started it with a walk. They could’ve gotten more but third baseman Ryan Wehrle who in the top of the frame dropped a ball for an E5 bounced out to short to end it.

Hudson Valley responded right away in the second to rebuild their three-run lead. After a leadoff triple to right by Shawn O’Malley, he crossed home plate on another sac fly this time by Emeel Salem.

The Bombers trimmed the lead to two in the second. Austin Krum ledoff with a double to center and two batters later came around to score when Snyder singled him in to cut it to 4-2. With a couple of runners on and two out, Taylor Holiday was caught trying to steal third to end the frame leaving dangerous cleanup hitter Braedyn Pruitt at the plate.

With Farley settling down to toss three scoreless innings in a row and middle reliever Nick Chigges coming out of the pen and being almost flawless by allowing just one hit in the middle innings, it gave their team a chance to comeback.

They crawled to within one on a Gil two out runscoring single which plated Holiday after he started the fifth with a ground-rule double.

Trailing by one in the seventh, the Bombers stranded runners in scoring position when Gil flied out to right.

The game would still be hanging in the balance after Jason Kiley worked around a two out walk in the ninth to set the stage for some dramatics.

Facing Hudson Valley’s Ryan Zimmerman in his second inning of work, it didn’t take long for Staten Island to get to him. After pinch hitter D.J. Hollingsworth singled and was nailed trying to stretch it to a double, Snyder came up and took the closer deep to center for his fifth homer of the year which knotted it.

Zimmerman would get the second out by getting Holiday swinging before departing in favor of Mark Suchowiecki. As fortune had it, a miscue by Suchowiecki led to his own demise when he allowed second baseman Damon Sublett to reach on an error.

That brought up Pruitt, who made him pay with a walkoff double to center which scored Sublett all the way from first to give Staten Island the exciting victory.

Notes: With two more hits, the versatile Snyder who played short last night hiked his average to .383. He also finished with two runs scored and two RBI’s. … Holiday also had a multi-hit night and swiped two bases to reach double digits for the summer. … With another pinch hit, Hollingsworth is now batting .355. … Vogt and O’Malley each finished with two hits to pace the Renegades. … The Bombers were able to prevail despite three errors including two from Wehrle at the hot corner and one from Gil behind the plate. … Kiley picked up his third win after a scoreless ninth to improve to 3-2. … Staten Island now heads to Williamsport for three before returning to St. George Friday to host a three-game set against Jamestown.