SNB 61: Hurricanes and Gallos stand firm at the forefront

The Hurricanes of Mayabeque and the Gallos de Sancti Spíritus continued to give the note in the National Series 61, by defeating their rivals this Saturday to stay on top of the championship, in a day where the woods took a truce in most of the parks and the home run leader hit two homers.

The brave troop of Michael González continued with their hot bats and hit 15 hits to the pitching of the Indios de Guantánamo, to beat them 11-7 at the Nelson Fernández Stadium.

Yasniel González went 3-4 with an RBI and Alexander Pozo 2-2 and drove in two, as did Juan Manuel Martínez (4-1), all including a double.
Mailon Cruz stayed 7.2 innings on the mound with two cleans to his records, to score the victory, and Jaime Gámez got the last four outs to save the challenge.

Pablo Salgado was barely able to pitch two innings, in which he was scored five runs (one dirty) and left defeated.

For the Indians, the new Cuban baseball slugger, Pablo Revilla, hit two home runs that drove in three runs, to establish himself as the leader in that department, reaching 13 in the championship.

Eriel Sánchez’s Gallos once again clung to the left arm of left-hander Alex Guerra and whitewashed the Hunters of Artemisa 4-0, to give them their sixth loss in a row and keep singing on top of the standings.

The 19-year-old continued his run for the rookie of the year title by walking 7.2 immaculate innings in which he was given just three hits and reached five wins on the campaign.

Yunior Ibarra (4-2) brought two teammates home in the second set to finish early, and Daviel Gómez (4-1) added another in the lucky seven to finish it off.

The defeat went to starter Elián Moreno, who was barely able to work two innings and left with two earned runs behind him.

In Capitan San Luis, with 19 hits, the Vegueros from Pinar del Río defeated the Tigres de Ciego de Ávila 14-5, breaking their string of successes in five games and dropping them from the top of the standings.

All the regulars scored at least one hit, highlighting Juan Carlos Arencibia, 4-4, with a quartet of RBIs, and Roidel Martínez, 6-5, with doubles and triples included and a couple of RBIs.

Yoandy Cruz relieved starter Yaifredo Domínguez from the second inning and worked 6.2 innings, with six strikeouts and two runs allowed, scoring the win.

The defeat went to Yairon Martínez, after enduring nine hits and four clean scores in the three innings he remained in the box.

For the Tigers, Raúl González took the fences to drive in two runs (number 100 of his career), and the duo of Dainier Hernández and Alexander Jiménez went 2-4, each with an RBI.

The Alazanes de Granma continued to ride confidently through the ring on September 5, in Cienfuegos, quietly defeating the Elefantes from Cienfuegos with a score of 4-1, to stay very close to the championship leaders.

A home run by Carlos Benítez (4-1) in the same first inning, with two teammates on base, was enough to clinch the win. The other was towed by the already recovered Alexquemer Sánchez (4-2) two chapters later.

Left-hander Leandro Martínez reached his fourth success of the season by working two-thirds of the game allowing six hits and one earned run. Miguel Paradelo threw the rest without difficulty and scored the save.

For the Elephants, the best hitter was Xiam Vega, 4-3, with the only RBI of his troop.

The Avispas from Santiago shook off the dust of two consecutive losses and stung the Crocodiles from Matanzas in the Victoria de Girón, in Matanzas, defeating them 3-2 and staying very close to the first position in the tournament.

Dasiel Sevilla stole the show by batting 3-for-3, with a tubey and two RBIs. Yaicel Pérez doubled in two official at-bats and brought one home, and Yoelkis Guibert singled and tripled in five plate appearances.

Pedro Agüero walked six innings with two annotations on his account and achieved the victory. Luis Fonseca launched three blank chapters to save his ninth game and reaffirm himself as a leader in that department.

Dariel Góngora accepted three touchdowns in five innings and charged with the backhand. Naykel Cruz shone with a four-episode relay without allowing freedoms, but the support of his artillery never came.

For the Crocodiles, Juan Miguel Vázquez (3-1) and Erisbel Arruebarrena (4-1) drove in runs, the latter with a tubey.

Entrenched in their headquarters at the Cristóbal Labra, the Piratas de la Isla took the Leñadores de Las Tunas down a peg by beating them 8-1 and staying very close to the qualifying zone.

Leonardo Urgellés took two balls out of the field and drove in three runs. Aquimo Jiménez fired a tubey and drove in two teammates, and José Luis Bring linked three hits in four at-bats, with an RBI.

Lázaro Guerrero spaced out seven hits in six innings and didn’t allow any runs to take the win. Franklin Quintana scored his eighth save of the fair by working three episodes in which one was scored.

Yoidel Castañeda suffered the setback after a failed start of 3.2 chapters in which he endured five hits, with the same number of earned runs.

For the Leñadores, Yordanis Alarcón, Dailer Peña and Yuniesky Larduet shot three hits each, the latter with an RBI.

At the Augusto César Sandino, the Holguin Cubs won their seventh challenge in their last ten outings, this time at the expense of the Villa Clara Leopards 6-2, continuing their sprint in search of the qualifying zone.

Franklin Aballe (4-2) hit a two-run homer, Yasiel Gonzalez went 3-for-4 with two RBIs, and Yeison Pacheco (3-2) and Edwart Magaña (4-1) each drove a teammate home. one.

The winner Uberleydis Estévez gave away six walks in 5.2 innings, but struck out the same number of rivals and only accepted one clean, helped by Michel Cabrera, who in 3.1 innings kept the home plate doors closed.

Rookie Dairon Daniel Casanova gave up all opponents’ runs in five innings of work and took the loss, his first career decision.

For the Leopards, Reidel Pedraza and Yuri Marcos Fernández each went 2-4, the latter with a double and an RBI.

Finally, the capital’s Lions did not believe in attacks or hot sticks and tamed the Toros Camagüeyanos 5-2 in the Latin American park, breaking an adverse streak of two games and taking the lead in the particular duel of this campaign.

Raymond Figueredo, in the first start of his career in the National Series, threw on his blue greba cape and kept the Bulls tame for six innings, to the point of allowing them just two runs with the same number of hits.

The right-hander from the capital, who was one of the prospects included in the famous list that the Cuban Baseball Federation gave to the MLB before the agreement was truncated, started out of control in the first episode and allowed one run, but then he took a breath and He showed his quality on the mound.

At the height of the fifth inning, Miguel Borroto’s troupe tied him the first undisputed and two innings later Yosbel Pérez towed in another with a sacrifice fly, already with Andy Vargas on the mound.

Guillermo Carmona’s guerrilla scored one by Yosvani Peñalver’s driving cannon shot in the first chapter and another two in the closing of the fifth by starter Pedro Luis Guzmán, one of them driven by a hit by Andrés Hernández, wounded in his pride after that the Camagüeyan leadership deliberately bowled Yasiel Santoya three times to work for him.

Industriales nailed the rapier to the back of the visitors’ necks in the so-called lucky inning, when Oscar Valdés fired an unstoppable RBI to blow up reliever Ángel Luis Márquez’s box, and Dayron Blanco did the same against a shipment from Lisander Hernández.

As is becoming usual in these Havana films, Vargas scored the save in another high-carat mound demonstration, by staying on his feet for three chapters nailing six blue flags to some rivals famous for their terrible attacks.

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