Industriales squad from Havana, as a visitor, and the Alazanes of Granma, as local, will try to remain undefeated in the just begun Cuban Baseball Elite League.
Both teams won their first two games, appealing to their attacking power, in a weekend where almost 34 thousand fans headed to the stadiums.
Globally, 13 errors were made and 120 hits produced, 10 of them, home runs.
The nicknamed Leones of Havana produced 17 hits off the throwers of Pinar del Río, two of them home runs by the catcher Andrys Pérez and the talented young player Dayron Miranda.
Just like the first day, when Andy Vargas pitched five immaculate innings, Guillermo Carmona’s troop once again enjoyed a good job by their starter, in this case Pavel Hernández, to leave the score 13-2.
The right-hander pitched seven innings with only two runs allowed, one of them on a home run by Jorge Rojas.
For today, in a game agreed for the Captain San Luis Stadium, the management body of the felines announced the right-hander Yadian Martinez, while the Pativerdes will depend on the left-footed Geonel Gutierrez, both requested reinforcements.
At the Mártires de Barbados in Bayamo, the Alazanes, who defeated the combative Wasps of Santiago de Cuba 8-7 on Sunday after leaving them lying on the field on Saturday (7-6), will take the mound to Yunier Castillo, who will have to face Olympic veteran Danny Betancourt.
This Sunday, the Santiago team connected five home runs, two from Yoelquis Gibert and Eduardo García and another from José Noroña (expelled for protesting counts), but they committed four blunders to the field that cost them the game.
Finally, at the Julio Antonio Mella Stadium in Las Tunas, the lumberjacks of that province, champions of the last two editions of the National Series, will try to tilt in their favor the particular duel with the Tigres de Ciego de Ávila, winners yesterday 8-1.
In that challenge, José Isaías Grandales did not allow runs in seven innings, where he struck out five opponents, and the legendary Frederich Cepeda hit a home run.
Ariel Zerquera for the felines and Yadier Zamora for the so-called “Oriental Nightmare” were announced to climb the mound, a team that next month will make a stop in its calendar to represent Cuba in the second edition of the Champions League to be held in Mexico.
With information from Prensa Latina/ Translated by Radio Angulo
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