"I got into this industry because of love for baseball and the community, and love for Oakland," Freedman said. "I see a tremendous amount of parallels between the city of Oakland and the city of Long Beach, and I think the kind of community-oriented baseball that is working in Oakland can work in Long Beach as well."
Diamond Baseball Holdings, supported by private equity firm Silver Lake, has acquired 45 Minor League Baseball teams since late 2021, controlling over 35 percent of all MiLB teams in the U.S.
"It's a show," Cyclones manager Gilbert Gómez told Brooklyn Paper in April. "It's a fun environment to play in. The roller coaster behind and you got all those lights popping up at night, and you got good fans, good crowd when it gets warm."
Richard Fitts looked pretty amazing on the mound in his five scoreless innings of work, reaching 97 MPH on that fastball, and manager Chad Tracy opted to pull him perhaps a little earlier than his pitch count of 77 may have called for. It ended up biting him a little, as the bullpen got scorched.