“El Grillo” KICKED HER 2 times, Santiago FELL due to a beating, Tigres and Gallos repeated

By Jose Alejandro Rodriguez Zas

On the afternoon of this Wednesday, January 26, the second challenges of the opening subseries were held in this 61st edition of the National Baseball Series. On the day, the Crocodiles of Matanzas, the Tigres of Ciego de Ávila and the Gallos de Sancti Spíritus once again left through the wide door against their respective rivals, while the Wasps of Santiago de Cuba fell to a beating against the Cubs of Holguín.

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Arruebarruena was a lot for Cienfuegos, Matanzas remained undefeated

The current runners-up of Cuba, the Crocodiles of Matanzas, kept their undefeated in this Series 61 in three outings to the field of play, after beating the Elephants of Cienfuegos for the second consecutive day. with a score of five runs by twoat its headquarters in the Victoria de Girón stadium.

This time it was those from the Pearl of the South who opened the register in the match against Matanzas starter Renner Rivero (4.0 EL, 2 CL), who did not have a brilliant afternoon and left without a decision, constantly getting into complications due to his control . A hit and a walk, combined with a fly ball to the outfield and an RBI single by mask Richel López (3-2, CI) allowed the Elephants to score the first in the top of the second inning, while two other free walks, a single and a sacrifice fly by Juan Miguel Soriano made it 2-0 on the scoreboard in the top of the third.

However, not for nothing the people from Matanzas have shown to have an impressive offense in these early stages of the contest and with a three-run rally at the end of the third inning, they reacted and took command of the game. Consecutive singles by Jefferson Delgado (5-3, CA) and Javier Camero (4-2, double, CI, CA) and a huge home run by Erisbel Arruebarruena across the middle of the field turned the score around, 3-2, in favor of Matanzas and they decreed the exit of the Cienfuegos starter, Abel Campos (0-1, 2.1 EL, 3 CL), in the end the loser of the clash.

At the end of the fifth, another home run by Arruebarruena (3-2, 2 HR, 4 CI, 2 AC) opening the inning, this time from the right, his third in the league, widened Yumurina’s advantage, becoming the best batsman in the game. match. The finishing touch came in the sixth due to consecutive braces by Aníbal Medina and Camero.

The yumurinos connected 10 hits in total with a blunder to the defense, while the elephants added six hits without errors. The victory went to Joel Suárez (1-0, 4.0 EL, 3 H, 0 CL, 1 K, BB) who made an excellent long relay.

Ciego whitewashed Leñadores again, this time with a KO included

The start of Series 61 for the Lumberjacks of Las Tunas has been worrying, since such a battering team has not yet been able to score runs in the first two games. After being whitewashed yesterday 4×0 by veteran right-hander Yander Guevara, this afternoon they lost again against the Tigres de Ciego de Ávila, again due to grout, but with a 14×0 knockout included.

Only five hits were able to connect the Las Tunas against the Avilanian pitching, led by starter Dachel Duquesne (1-0), who kept the rival batters in one fist for six full innings, at the rate of four hits without clean and although he did not strike out, he only gave away a couple of tickets, achieving his first success in the contest. Leomil González and Leonardo Reyes were in charge of closing the seventh inning.

The Avilanians scored two runs in the first inning, one in the third, two in the fourth and sealed the knockout with a nine-run rally in the fifth, with home runs by Yuddiel González (3-3, HR, 3 CI, 2 AC) and Rubén Valdés (3-2, HR, 4 CI, 2 CA), the most outstanding on offense.

The left-handed international starter from Las Tunas Yudiel Rodríguez (0-1) charged with the setback, with a performance of only 3.0 innings, allowing eight hits and five runs, all earned, without strikeouts and a walk.

Exciting comeback of the Gallos leaves Camagüey with the desire, in return of Roberto Hernández

When everything seemed to indicate that the Toros de Camagüey would achieve their first victory of the contest, the Roosters from Sancti Spiritus brought out their caste and turned the scoreboard, with a great cluster of six races in the lower part of the eighth chapter, to win six races by twowith a two-run homer by first baseman and second baseman, Yunier Mendoza (5-3, HR, 2 CI, CA).

The game was tied for one race in seven complete chapters, with an excellent pitching duel, once again, between the two starters of the game, Juan Sebastián Contreras (5.0 EL, 6 H, 1 CL, 0 K, 1 BB) for Camagüey and Roberto Hernández (6.0 EL, 5 H, 1 CL, 4 K, 0 BB) for Sancti Spiritus, the latter returning to the box after his injury.

The Bulls’ run came on a home run by veteran Alexander Ayala (4-1) in the top of the fourth, while a single by Frederich Cepeda (4-1) had put the Gallos ahead in the bottom of the third.

The Bulls took control in the upper part of the eighth against reliever Aníbal Suárez, but when it seemed that they were taking the victory, the yayabera rebellion came at the end of the inning itself, with a cluster of six runs that put definitive figures to the José Antonio Huelga stadium scoreboard, winning for the second afternoon in a row.

Along with Mendoza, the most outstanding in the Gallos’ offense were Daviel Gómez (5-2, double, 2 CI, 2CA) and the fourth batter Alberto Rodríguez (4-2, double, CA), while for the Toros, the best was Luis González (4-3, double, triple, IC).

The success went to the account of Ariel Zerquera (1-0), second reliever of the Roosters, who barely faced a batter to close the eighth, while the capital turned Camagüeyan, Julio Raizán Montesinos (0-1) charged with the reverse, after allowing three earned in 0.2 innings of work.

Holguín returned a beating to Santiago, in game of several injuries

Finally, at the Calixto García stadium in Holguín, the Cubs stopped the Santiago de Cuba Wasps with 10×2 board, adding a whopping 17 hits for only five of the indomitable, who made three errors on defense. The holguineros played immaculate.

Yasiel González (5-3, 2 doubles, CI, 2CA) and Franklin Aballe (5-3, double, CI, CA) punished the Avispas pitching, whose starter Pedro Agüero (0-1, 1.0 EL, 5 H, 4 C, 3 CL, 0 K, 0 BB) could not get past the second inning, to add his first failure of the campaign. Yordan Manduley, Jorge Luis Peña, Luis Rául Domínguez and Maikel Cáceres also had two hits, in a game where no homers were hit.

Cubs lefty starter Rubén Rodríguez (1-0) achieved success, walking 6.0 innings with just three hits allowed, one earned, two strikeouts and as many walks. Marlon Serrano (3-2, double, CI) and Adriel Labrada (4-2, double, CA) stood out on offense for the Wasps.

In the match, the players from Holguin, Edilse Silva and Maikel Cáceres, had to leave due to injuries, while the indomitable center fielder, Yoelkis Guibert, also did not start the game due to health problems.

In other results of the day, the Vegueros de Pinar del Río defeated the Piratas de la Isla again 11×5; the Granma Alazanes repeated the 11×1 dose to the Guantánamo Indians; The Mayabeque Hurricanes beat the Villa Clara Leopards 6×5, for the second consecutive day, while the Industriales Blues managed to recover from the initial setback and beat the Artemisa Hunters with a score of 10×3.