SWEPT Matanzas, Santiago WON with fright, Danel gave 2 HR, Bulls made the cross

By José Alejandro Rodríguez Zas / @jzas23

This Thursday, January 27, the first private sub-series of the 61st Series of Cuban baseball concluded. The Matanzas Crocodiles ratified themselves as undefeated leaders with four wins in the same number of field trips, after completing the sweep against the Cienfuegos Elephants, while the Santiago de Cuba Wasps tipped the balance in their favor against the Holguin Cubs.

For their part, the Toros de Camagüey and the Leñadores de Las Tunas saved their honor against Gallos de Santi Spíritus and Tigres de Ciego de Ávila, respectively, to take away their undefeated record in the recently started campaign.

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Matanzas won tight, but secured the sweep, the undefeated and the top

The Matanzas Crocodiles added their fourth victory of the season hanging from the arm of Dariel Góngora (1-0, 6.0 EL, 6 H, 0 CL, 7 K, 1 BB), who had an excellent start against the Elephants. , to score his first hit of the season, with final board of 2×0.

The lanky pitcher handcuffed the Cienfuegos batch and closed his performance with a trio of strikeouts in the top of the sixth inning, before giving way to the youngster Naykel Cruz (3.0 EL, 2 H, 0 CL, 1 K, 3 BB), who closed the curtains on the game with another superb display, to add his first point for saved game of the season.

The Yumurinos opened the scoreboard in the bottom of the fifth inning by Yariel Duque’s home run to the right field against the offers of the Cienfuegos starter, the experienced right-hander Yasmany Insua (0-1) who had a luxurious afternoon, but was not supported for his offense.

Insua completed seven innings, allowed the same number of hits, endured the two clean ones from Matanzas and struck out a rival batter. His control was not good and he gave up five walks, carrying the backhand

In the sixth, the Crocodiles combined a walk to Jefferson Delgado, a single by Arruebarruena and an RBI hit by Yadil Mujica, to make it 2×0 on the scoreboard enough to complete the sweep.

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Both teams had eight hits. Mujica, Duque and Arruebarruena were the most outstanding for the Matanzas with two hits each, while Juan Miguel Soriano and Orlando Santos, for the Elephants, also had two hits.

Wasps won with a scare in the ninth, after a good opening by Alberto Bisset

In the Calixto García Stadium in Holguín, the Wasps of Santiago de Cuba they beat the locals 5×4 to win the particular commitment, with good pitching work by right-hander Alberto Bisset (1-0), who worked six complete episodes, with six hits allowed, two runs, one of them clean, one strikeout and four walks, taking the success, in addition of the offensive contribution of the forward man Santiago Torres and the fourth player Adriel Labrada, who had two hits each.

(It is worth noting that Torres had to leave the match due to injury and will miss at least the next two sub-series of the Santiago players).

The untamed opened the scoring in the opening inning against Cubs pitcher, right-hander José Ángel Sánchez (0-1, 5.1 EL, 3 H, 3 C, 1 CL, 0 K, 1 BB) on Torres’ single, error of the Holguin defense on a ground ball by Ariel Benavides, unstoppable by Francisco Martínez who brought one and took Benavides to third base, from where he scored for rolling de Labrada, which served for a double kill.

The holguineros, for their part, equalized the game in the closing of the third, when they combined two walks by the veteran Bisset, a single and a throwing error by the waiter from Santiago, already with two out on the scoreboard, which allowed the two runs of the puppies.

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Eriberto Rosales’ troops took command in the top of the sixth inning, on the other hit by Torres, a sacrifice bunt by Benavides and a booster rocket by Labrada. One inning later, they extended the scoreboard due to an error by the Holguin players, while in the ninth, a single by Dasiel Sevila made the scoreboard 5×2.

The Cubs threatened in the bottom of the ninth when Jorge Luis Peña (4-3, HR, 2 IC, 2 CA) fumbled the ball off indomitable reliever Luis Fonseca (3.0 EL, 4 H, 2 CL, 3 K, 1 BB) but it was not enough to reverse the result. Fonseca himself closed out the match for his first save of the campaign.

The indomitable batted eight hits and made an error, for 10 hits and three blunders Holguin. Cubs first baseman Michel Gorguet also stood out with two hits in four at-bats.

Bulls made the cross with offensive highlight and grout included

The Bulls of Camagüey saved their honor against the Roosters of Sancti Spíritus by defeating them on their grounds at José Antonio Huelga, with definitive marker of 5×4 This time Miguel Borroto’s boys were able to secure victory in the third match of the particular sub-series, after missing out on two clear chances of success in the clashes on Tuesday and Wednesday, although it was not easy to achieve.

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The mask Jorge Álvarez was the big man of Camagüey with the wood, going 4-3 with two triples, a double and three runs batted in and one scored. “La Pólvora” opened the board at the beginning of the second act with a three-base connection to center field, which found two teammates in circulation. Then, in the fifth, he hit a double to left and scored for another bi-angular, this time by Yanmichel Flores. In the sixth, he put the 4 × 0 on the board with his second triple of the challenge.

The experienced Leslie Anderson was in charge of driving the Bulls’ fifth run in the lucky inning, while right-hander Pedro Luis Guzmán (1-0, 6.0 EL, 9 H, 3 CL, 2 K, 3 BB) walked very well on the mound, hanging six zeros to the Sancti Spiritus, ultimately the winner of the match.

But at the end of the seventh, with the game 5×0 in favor of the Camagüeyans, the Roosters’ offense made an appearance, taking Guzmán out of the box with two singles in a row, opening the inning, in addition to an RBI double. of Rodoleisi Moreno (4-2, double, 2 CI, CA).

Immediately, Borroto went to the bullpen, calling right-hander José Ramón Rodríguez (3.0 EL, 3 H, 1 CL, 2 K, 0 BB), who dominated the first two rivals he faced on fly-outs, but allowed a hit by Frederich Cepeda (5-2, double, CI) that brought the third for the Gallos. In the eighth, a brace by Diasmani Ortiz (4-3, double, CA) and a single by substitute catcher Yadiel Guerra brought the yayaberos closer 5×4, but Rodríguez was able to put his arm in and close the ninth to a conga rhythm, to ensure the victory and the save to his account, the first of the season

The Bulls connected eight hits for 12 Sancti Spiritus, without errors to the defense in the match. The starter for the Roosters, Alex Guerra (0-1, 4.1 EL, 5 H, 3 CL, 3 K, 2 BB) suffered his first loss of the match.

Las Tunas woke up in the Cepero, Danel Castro homered twice and Viñales did it with the bases loaded

Finally, the Lumberjacks of Las Tunas woke up their offense this afternoon, after two consecutive losses to defeat the Tigres de Ciego de Ávila with 13×8 blackboardto add this way their first victory of Series 61, at the same time that they took the undefeated from the Avilanians.

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1,000-year veteran Danel Castro (5-2, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 3 CA) hit a three-run homer in the same first inning to open the scoreboard, while Rafael Viñales (6-3, HR, double, 5 CI, 2 CA) did the same in the third, with the bases loaded, as part of a cluster of seven, which put the game 10×0. Danel himself hit his second home run of the afternoon in the eighth, with a man on board, to add five RBIs in the game.

Other highlights of the match for the Leñadores were Andrés Quiala (6-2, 2 CI, 3 CA), Yordanis Alarcón (4-2, double, CI, 2 CA) and Andrés de la Cruz (4-2, double, CA) , as part of a 16-hit attack, with no errors on defense.

For the Tigres, Yuddiel González (3-1, HR, 3 IC, 3 AC) also dispatched the ball, his second in the series, this time with two runners on base, at the close of the third chapter, while catcher Alfredo Fádraga (5-1, HR, 2CI, CA) did the same in the seventh, with a teammate in circulation.

First baseman Humberto Morales and outfielder Liosvany Pérez had three hits each, while third baseman Rubén Valdés contributed another two to the total of 11 for the Avilanians, who made two blunders.

The victory went to second reliever Yasel Labrada (1-0, 1.2 EL, 3 H, 2 CL), while the Tigres’ starter, Luis A. Marrero (0-1, 2.1 EL, 6 H, 9 C, 7 CL, 0 K, 3 BB) was punished and suffered the setback. Reliever Yosbel Alarcón (2.2 EL, 3 H, 0 CL, 0 K, 3BB) earned the save. For Las Tunas, their starter Alejandro Meneses (2.1 EL, 2 H, 4 CL, 0 K, 3 BB) had a short appearance.

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In other results, the Vegueros de Pinar del Río completed the 6×2 sweep over the Piratas de la Isla; Alazanes de Granma did the same with another 14×1 KO at the expense of Indios de Guantánamo, while Hurricanes de Mayabeque vs Leopardos de Villa Clara and Azules de Industriales vs Cazadores de Artemisa, suspended due to rain.

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SWEPT Matanzas, Santiago WON with fright, Danel gave 2 HR, Bulls made the cross