The wasps divided and retained the first place. Author: Abel Rojas Barallobre
The Santiago de Cuba team retained their lead in the Cuban baseball season, sharing the honors today with Matanzas, a day when the rains prevented the celebration of four games.
Early in the morning, pitcher Renner Rivero went all out (7.0 INN, 2CL, 5H, 4K and 1BB) to win the Crocodiles 4-2 and broke veteran Alberto Bisset’s unbeaten record after six wins in the campaign.
In the next game, the Wasps hit back the Crocodiles 6-2 with a hermetic relief from Jaime Pelegrin, who had no runs or hits in four innings and signed his first National Series success.
The Matanzas pitchers, in addition to allowing six hits, including a home run from Euclides Perez, showed lousy control in the second encounter, throwing out eleven walks in six innings.
In the Latin American Championship, Vegueros de Pinar del Río snapped the Industriales’ four-win winning streak by winning 4–3, led by batsman William Saavedra (4–2, 2CI), who hit the 158th home run of his career.
Villa Clara were once again out of the middle of the standings after beating the Spiritus Roosters 7-1 at their Sandino de Santa Clara estate.
Young Raidel Alfonso (8.0 INN, 1CL, 2H) didn’t hit or drop a man from the Sancti Spiritus, but he remained dominant all the way down to hitting five perfect innings before catcher Carlos Chavez broke the spell with his the first homer. for life.
Ciego de Ávila failed to capitalize on his last-place match against Guantanamo and lost by 16-6 knockout, in a game in which the Indians showed strength at bat with four full-turn sticks, two of them on Count Louis Robert Delgado .
Matches between Holguin-Artemisa, Mayabeque-Las Tunas, Granma Cienfuegos and Camagüey-La Isla could not take place due to bad weather in the eastern region of Cuba.
More than 20 games have already been suspended this season, and most of them will have to be played because they will determine places in qualifying or in the quarter-finals.
The latest information from the organizers of the National Series indicates that for the remainder of the championship, the last games of each sub-series, as well as every Saturday and Sunday, games will start at ten in the morning.
The National Baseball Commission recently said that after the end of the calendar and while the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador last, those games that the directors of both teams agree to can be played, the rest will be rescheduled upon the return of the national team. regional struggle.
After Santiago de Cuba (34-24) comes Artemisa (31-24), Las Tunas (30-24), Mayabeque (31-25), Matanzas (32-26), Sancti Spiritus (29-27) , Ciego de Avila. (28-27) and shared the eighth and ninth positions of Villa Clara and Holguin with a balance of 29-28.
Final squad: Industriales (29-29), Pinar del Río (28-28), La Isla (26-28), Granma (27-30), Camagüey (25-31), Cienfuegos (22-35) and Guantanamo. (20-36).
Source: Juventud Rebelde