Granma’s pitching got its first win today in the current baseball season, after its 5×0 success over the Guantánamo Indians, at the Mártires de Barbados stadium, in Bayamo.
In his eighth start of the championship, right-hander Sammy Enrique Benítez led the shutout, after throwing seven innings with two strikeouts, the same number of walks and spacing out three hits.
The right-handers Juan Danilo Pérez and Alexei Alarcón were also in charge of maintaining dominance and completing the work started by Benítez (3-2), who scored the third victory of the championship.
With a single, home run and two RBIs, Raico Santos led the Alazanes attack; The Granma left fielder seems to have recovered from the injury, which kept him away from daily play for two weeks.
Hubert Sánchez and Guillermo Avilés also stood out, with two singles and one RBI per capita; At the same time, first baseman Avilés was approaching two hits out of a thousand in national series.
By accepting the first two runs from the rivals, the Guantanamo pitcher Fernández Sánchez (3-2) was defeated; Meanwhile, third baseman Yorlis Luis Rodríguez fired his team’s only three hits, all against Sammy Enrique and including a couple of tubeys.
After securing the private match (3-1), the fifth of the tournament, Ángel Ortega’s troops will look for another victory tomorrow in the Bayamo park, to continue settling in the standings.
Ortega’s students show a balance of 24 successes and 17 setbacks, and share third place with Ciego de Ávila and Camagüey.
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