It had been six years since the Trenton Thunder last celebrated an Eastern League championship.

But the wait is now over for Thunder fans, after a dominant 2019 postseason run.

Trenton completed its run to the title Friday night in Bowie with a 5-2 victory over the Baysox in Game 4 of the Eastern League Championship Seires. The Thunder took both games in Bowie to win the series three games to one.

It is the fourth Eastern League championship in the 26-year franchise history (2007, 2008, 2013) with all coming as a New York Yankees affiliate.

“I don’t think that anyone will be able to grasp how hard it is to do that, to be a champion at any level,” Thunder Manager Patrick Osborn said. "It is so hard. Unless you are in it every day for the course of five and a half months. When you do become a champion, there is no feeling like it.

"I told these guys that you will never forget this feeling. We all finally got there and this is a feeling. You can’t describe it. Just the joy and happiness in that room. Because it is just so difficult to navigate a 140 game season, two round of playoffs against really good teams, nail-biting baseball.

For those guys that have been here and it didn’t work out for them, and I am just glad they got to taste success.”

Two-time Eastern League Pitcher of the Week Rony Garcia (1-0) threw five no-hit innings to get the win, as the Thunder hitters scored four times for him. Garcia then watched as the dominant Trenton bullpen closed out the final four innings.

“This kid has taking a huge step forward in terms of his prospect status,” Osborn said. “The way that the industry is thinking about him. He has been outstanding all year."

Kellin Deglin gave the visitors a 1-0 lead in the second inning with a solo home run that wrapped around the left field foul pole.

Trenton’s advantage was up to 3-0 by the end of the second, as Rashad Crawford and Zack Zehner had RBI base hits. Eastern League MVP Chris Gittens then blasted a solo home run in to lead off the top of the third for a 4-0 lead, and with the way the Thunder bullpen has pitched all season, it was all but insurmountable.

Greg Wissert and Trevor Lane retired the side in order in the seventh and eighth inning, then Daniel Alvarez came on to finish off the title. The Thunder closer gave up a solo home run to Anderson Feliz to start off the inning, but then made sure there would be no late comeback as he induced a popup from Jesmuel Valentin to end the game, and the series.

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Dellin Betances completed his third and final rehab outing of the season in the sixth inning, allowing two hits, including a solo shot from Cedric Mullins. The Yankees’ reliever threw 15 pitches (nine strikes) and struck out one batter.

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Trenton will get a chance to raise its fourth banner on opening night of the 2020 Eastern League season next April 9, as the Thunder open up with Harrisburg for three games.