The Staten Island Yankees were finally cooled off by the pitching and defense of the Brooklyn Cyclones.

Mike Gillespie’s ballclub who had won four straight out of the AS Break and taken the first two games of a four-game series against their Verrazano rivals were shutdown at Key Span Park tonight- falling 1-0 to drop back to four behind McNamara Division leading Brooklyn (37-18).

Pending what Lowell does in the second game of a doubleheader at Tri-City, the Baby Bombers currently lead the Spinners by two games for the wild card.

Meanwhile, Vermont gained half a game because they were rained out at Oneonta. So they now trail Staten Island by two and a half games (two in loss column).

Despite getting an outstanding pitching effort from starter Chris Farley along with relievers Ryan Zink and Nick Peterson, the Bombers couldn’t come up with the big hit against the Cyclone trio of winning starter Dylan Owen (7-1), Stephen Clyne and closer Eddie Kunz.

With the game televised on SNY due to the Mets being idle, Farley pitched extremely well striking out seven in the first four frames while allowing just one hit.

The problem was that the 24 year-old Massachusetts native who the Yanks signed as a free agent out of the International League had one small hiccup in the Cyclones first which ultimately decided a well played game which took only two hours and 26 minutes to complete.

Despite striking out the side, the righty was hurt by a momentary loss of control when he hit a batter and walked one to put two runners on. Brooklyn’s J.R. Voyles delivered a two out RBI single to left which plated Micah Schilling for the game’s only run.

The Cyclones managed just two hits the rest of the night and were doubled up by Staten Island on the scoreboard. But it didn’t matter because the Bombers couldn’t come up with the big hit stranding 11.

Given an early lead, Owen pitched very effectively keeping S.I. batters off balance with a nasty offspeed pitch freezing a couple on his way to five strikeouts over the first six before giving way to the bullpen.

The Bombers’ best chance against him came in the fourth when they put back-to-back runners on via a Damon Sublett free pass and an opposite field hit from first baseman Braedyn Pruitt with one out.

However, Owen managed to squeeze out of it by getting right fielder David Williams to fly out to right and having Austin Krum bounce out to first.

The Bombers also had two runners on the very next inning when dangerous leadoff man Justin Snyder was intentionally walked to put runners on the corners with a couple out. But Taylor Holiday failed to get Jose Gil in from third and flied out to right which ended it.

Williams also flied out to deep right in the sixth which was Owen’s final batter.

Despite three scoreless frames from Zink in which he fanned three, Staten Island couldn’t tie it up.

Making his first appearance in almost two months due to tendinitis, Peterson worked around a two out walk by getting his final batter looking for his second K of the night.

The Bombers went in order in the ninth against Kunz who notched his third save. But there was a little controversy when it appeared Chris Raber beat second baseman Voyles’ off balance throw which ended it.

SNY replays seemed to indicate that Raber’s foot was on the bag as the ball reached Lucas Duda’s mitt.

Raber and outfielder/first base coach Matt Morris protested but field umpire Shea Gipson didn’t change his mind ending a heartbreaker for the Bombers.

Notes: Despite falling to 1-2, Farley pitched perhaps his best game and had many Cyclones off balance, retiring 10 of the final 11 batters he faced. … OF D.J. Hollingsworth came on to pinch hit for third baseman Brian Chavez in the seventh and beat out an infield hit in the seventh to put runners on first and second but Snyder flied out to left to end another frustrating chance. Pruitt shifted from first to third while Krum went from left to center allowing Hollingsworth to play left. Pruitt was the only player with two hits in the low scoring affair. … The final game of the series wraps up tonight at the ballpark at St. George.