Staten Island, N.Y. — The Connecticut Tigers kept their playoff hopes alive with a 6-4 victory over the Staten Island Yankees in a New York-Penn League game on Tuesday night.

The Tigers (39-31) trail the Yankees (40-29) by 1.5 games for the wild-card playoff berth. The teams play for the final time again at 7 p.m. Wednesday before Connecticut returns to Dodd Stadium on Thursday to play its final five games at home, the first three against the Lowell Spinners and the final two against the Tri-City ValleyCats.

The Tigers took control early, taking advantage of two errors to score three runs in the second (Tanner Donnels did drive in a run with a base hit) to take a 3-0 lead, and extending it to 6-1 with three more runs in the third on a bases-clearing double by Josh Lester.

Connecticut's bullpen of John Hayes, Malvin Martinez and Bryan Garcia pitched 4.1 scoreless innings after the Yankees scored three runs in the fifth with Garcia pitching a 1-2-3 ninth for his fifth save.

Lester and Daniel Woodrow had three hits apiece for the Tigers.