Wally Backman has been here before.

His Brooklyn Cyclones team is facing elimination after losing to Jamestown, 7-6, Tuesday night in a rain-soaked opener of the best-of-3 New York-Penn League playoff series.

The Jammers scored the winning run in the bottom of the eighth after blowing a 6-1 lead, according to the Jamestown Post Journal.

Game 2 is Wednesday night in Brooklyn, with Game 3, if necessary, there on Thursday.

The Cyclones had the best record in the NY-P this season.

A four-run third inning gave the Jammers a 5-1 lead.

Jeff Flagg and Joe Bonfe had RBIs for Brooklyn in the fifth, and Flagg another in the seventh to make it 6-4. 

After a 2 hour, 16 minute rain delay before the end of the top of the seventh, the Cyclones tied it 6-6 in the eighth on a two-run single by Bonfe.

Dallas Hord drove in the winner for the Jammers in the eighth after a walk and a groundout, giving them their fifth straight victory. The Cyclones were retired in order in the ninth.

Backman, in his first season as Cyclones manager, was a member of the 1986 Mets, who lost the first game of two playoff series on their way to the world championship.