The Puerto Ricans won in eight innings. Author: Taken from facebook
The Cuban baseball team suffered their third straight loss at the Aguascalientes-based U-12 World Championship when they lost in the extra inning to Puerto Rico 27-21, and their chances of qualifying for the World Championship in that category were diminished.
The game was decided in two extra innings—at this age, games are six innings—when the Puerto Ricans produced a seven-round package in Game 8 to lock in the score.
Pupils of Raul Rodriguez missed the opportunity to release people from the neighboring island on the field three times, especially on the seventh, when their bases were loaded, and only one came out.
Once again, the defense of the Cubans showed cracks with five errors, three more than the opponent.
It was a game of several very productive innings for both teams, which alternated between areas of action until it took them two more chapters to decide the winner.
Cuba has a balance of one win and three losses, a situation that forces them to win their remaining three games in order to aim for the top four in the tournament, the only ones eligible to attend the World Cup between July and August.
In other results of the fourth date, the Dominican Republic beat Brazil (24-2) and Venezuela beat Panama (20-11).
On Tuesday we will face Brazil, the only team to have lost four games played, and the day ends with RDO-VEN, EUA-PAN and PRI-MEX.
Position table: USA and MEX (3-0), RDO, PAN, VEN and PRI (2-2), CUB (1-3) and BRA (0-4).
Source: Juventud Rebelde