LOTS OF SPEED: Little League HOMER by Adolis Garcia

By Gian Franco Gil

Too many hands involved. Lost hit and explosion of the “Bombi”. With a sprint and without much force, the Cuban Adolis Garcia a run was scored after going through the bags, but without taking the seams out of the fair zone of the field of play. As it happens, very often, in Little League ball.

The victim of Adolis, the Detroit Tigers, although they massacred the Texas Rangers at pitching with a final score of 14×7, saw how the Cuban outwitted their defense with impunity and walked around the entire box, after a gale of misfortunes that befell the players to the field of felines.

It happened in the upper part of the sixth episode, when the Bombi wielded in his offensive turn. Before the shipments of another García, Rony, Adolis opened with a cannon shot to the first shipment, a sinker at 93 mph, which slipped between left and center fields.

The Cuban walked the bases when the ball passed between the Detroit outfielders and died when it reached the safety zone and hit the mattresses, forcing the center fielder to go get it. After making the cut, nothing more and nothing less than “El Mago” Javier Báez, he tried to make the delivery to third base, but buried the ball and it escaped, which opened the doors of the plate to the native of Ciego de Ávila.

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Earlier, in that same match, José Adolis had hit a solo home run, although this one did take the fences between left and center, to fall 410 feet from home plate. Despite scoring seven, the Rangers were outmatched by a wild 14-touchdown run by the Tigers, who took the action at Comerica Park.

Coincidentally, last week another Cuban, Randy Arozarena, completed a similar play, only that in the case of the 2021 American League Rookie of the Year it was assumed to be a home run inside the field, since the errors of the defense did not mediate so that the Rocket will scratch the card in favor of the Tampa Bay Rays.