A true cachumbambé was the match held this Monday between the Gallos de Sancti Spíritus and the Holguin’s Cubs at the Mayor General Calixto García stadium, won by the locals 10×8, to cut a streak of five defeats in a row, in the National Series of baseball.
The left-handed starter from Sancti Spiritus Ariel Zerquera worked only 1 1/3 in which he allowed three runs, but his teammates, who had scored one at the end of the first, discounted another in the fourth for Alejandro Escobar’s fifth homer.
The holguiners scored their fourth run in the fifth, the only one supported by first rescuer Dilan Argüelle at 3 2/3, but at the bottom of that inning the Roosters added three rounds to the frame, driven by Dunieski Barroso’s third home run to take the lead. command 5×4.
That’s where starter Yusmel Velázquez exploded, going to the showers with five runs to his record in 4 1/3 innings in which he was hit with six hits, walked two and hit a pitch, in addition to fanning four batters.
Another three runs were scored by the people from Sancti Spiritus in the sixth, to put the match 8×4, two of them against Michel Cabrera who threw an inning, and another against the left-handed Dayrián Batista who faced two batters, Cepeda and Barroso, and both hit him of jit.
Against the third visiting reliever, Fernando Betanzo, the hosts discounted one in the seventh inning and scored three in the eighth to tie the game at eight scores.
In the ninth, against Diosmel Hernández (2-1), loser, after one out, Ernesto Torres hit a hit, Adriel Hechavarría received a walk, and Manduley doubled that brought two to the plate to set the final 10×8 slate .
The victory corresponded to Luis Cáser (3-0), by leaving his rivals without hits or runs in 3 2/3 chapters, in which he struck out three and gave away two walks, one intentional.
The first five men in the Holguin’s Cubs lineup pushed seven of the 10 goals; Ernesto Torres (5-3 with a triple and an RBI), Adriel (4-2 and an RBI), Manduley (6-3 with two tubeyes and three RBIs), while Edilse (5-1) and Michael Gorgüet (5- 0), they pushed one each. Luis Miguel Santiesteban, as seventh in the lineup, went 0-for-3 but drove in three scores.
For the defeated Barroso finished 4-3, with a tubey, home run and five RBIs for the plate.
At this moment Holguín’s Cubs, with a balance of 30-31, appears in ninth place in the standings, 6.5 games from the top, while Sancti Spiritus is sixth with 33-28, 3.5 games from Santiago de Cuba, leader with 37- 25.
This Tuesday, starting at 10:00 a.m., local time, the fifth and last games of the thirteenth private matches of the LXII National Baseball Series will take place, and at the Calixto García stadium the starters will be the right-handed Edgar Zulueta (1-0), for the visitors and the left-handed Uberleydis Estévez (3-5), for the home team.
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