Two other defeats were added this Sunday by the Holguín Cubs team in the LXII National Baseball Series (11×5 and 5×3) and the calendar, as a relentless judge, alerts that the countdown has arrived when declines are usually irreversible.
Unsuccessful was the start of Wilson Paredes (4-6), loser, who in just 1 1/3 innings withstood seven hits and five earned runs.
The work of the relievers was also inefficient this Sunday, Ramiro Rodríguez, allowed three annotations in three innings, Sergio Moroso who hit the two batsmen facing each other and left with two runs on his record, one clean, and César Concepción who was scored a clean in 1 1/3.
The left-handed rookie Miguel Neira went to the showers after 4 1/3 chapters of work with five runs, four clean, to his resume, to the rescue came Fernando Betanzos (4-4), winner, who in 2 2/3 did not he allowed neither hits nor runs, struck out one and gave away a walk.
In short, the Spiritus Roosters finished with 11 runs and 12 hits and the Holguin Cubs scored five times and connected eight hits. Each team made a mistake.
For the winners Lázaro Fernández, hit 3-3 with a triple, to extend his consecutive hitting streak to seven, and pushed two runs, Frederich Cepeda connected for 4-3 with tubey and two RBIs, Alejandro Escobar made it 2-2 with a home run and three RBIs for the plate and Ronaldo Pérez hit a home run in two official shifts. For the losers Ernesto Torres batted 3-2.
In the second game this Sunday, the four initial innings passed without annotations, but in the fifth inning, the fourth hitter from Sancti Spiritus Dunieski Barroso opened with a home run, his second of the series, the second unstoppable hit by Jesús Enrique Pérez (4-2), to the losing dessert, who endured another two hits in that inning.
The people from Holguín, who had hit their first two hits in the fourth inning, negotiated the tie in the fifth by hitting a couple of singles, with a sacrifice bunt inserted, against left-handed starter Carlos Manuel Benavides, replaced by Yanielquis Duardo who could not prevent Yordan from Manduley will drive the runner on third with grounding for second.
In short, Duardo (4-4), winner, completed the clash and in 2 2/3 allowed two runs, driven in the seventh by Manduley’s fourth home run with Richard Oliva in first, by infield jit.
Los Gallos secured the victory in the sixth when Jesús Enrique allowed Rodolexis Moreno’s tubey and gave up the mound to Michel Cabrera who managed to get two outs, but gave away four walks, one intentional, and allowed three runs, although only one earned by error. shortstop Richard Oliva. José Antonio Sánchez got the last four outs with a hit, two strikeouts, a walk and a wild.
Sancti Espíritus finished with five scores, six hits and one error, while Holguín finished with three runs, eight hits and one blunder.
For the Roosters, Rodolexis Moreno went 2-4 with the aforementioned double, and for the Cubs, Edilse Silva went 2-3 and Manduley drove in all three runs for his team.
After these results Holguín, with a balance of 29-31, appears in the tenth seats in the standings, six games from the top.
The vanguard of the table this Sunday is made up of; Santiago de Cuba (35-25), Las Tunas (33-24 to 0.5), Matanzas (33-26 to 1.5), Artemisa (32-26 to 2.0), Sancti Espíritus (33-27 to 2.0), Mayabeque (32 -28 to 3.0), Industriales (33-29 to 3.0) and Ciego de Ávila (29-27 to 4.0).
This Monday, from 2.00 p.m. In the Calixto García stadium itself, the people from Holguin will trust Uberleydis Estévez (3-5) to end the streak of five consecutive defeats, while the people from Sancti Spiritus will give the ball to Ariel Zerquera (2-7), also left-handed.
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