Once again Las Tunas is back at the top, after beating Sancti Spíritus, in a close duel. Four hits, three of them after two outs, including Varona’s home run and Fernández’s triple, put Yayabo’s team ahead in the seventh, a scene they opened with three down on the scoreboard.
But at the top of the eighth act, five undisputed hits in a row, the last by Yunieski Larduet, who pushed the decisive one, led the Lumberjacks to their 27th victory, with five games left to play. With the victory, they rose, by average (692 by 682) to the summit of the season, as their success was combined with the setback from Pinar del Río against the Avilanians. By the way, the Lumberjacks from Las Tunas are the ones with the best balance in the last ten rounds, winning in nine of them.
Those from Vueltabajo met the Tigers’ ace on the mound. Dachel Duquesne couldn’t get out in the ninth, after allowing a hit and a double, but in eight completes, even though he was hit with 11 hits, he struck out five and walked one. He is now the only one with seven game wins.
As the Granma cavalry emerged victorious in the pastures of Cienfuegos, with Guillermo Avilés on fire (yesterday he reached a thousand hits, with two hits), by connecting three undisputed hits, with equal records driven, both Tigres and Alazanes remain in third place, the one that Camagüey took off, knocked out by Artemisa.
In Latin America, Holguín continues with frozen bats. On Tuesday he went without hits and without scoring, against Pavel Hernández, and yesterday he did not step on home plate either.
José Ernesto Pérez left the Cubs with one hit in seven innings; His replacement, Frank Herrera, kept the blue fortress impassable, although he accepted three shots in two completes.
They continue to close access to the play off area Artemisa and Santiago, yesterday’s winning teams, so they took two steps back from the one who pushes the most at the door of the luxury hall: Matanzas, precisely defeated by the Wasps.
Although it was a game between occupants at the bottom of the standings, with two teams that lost more than they won, the Guantánamo-Mayabeque challenge went through a single and decisive moment of rebellion.
The Guantanamo players reached the fourth without hitting Albert Valladares. However, in that inning they destroyed the best pitcher of last week, according to the vote of the press, the national commission and the fans.
He allowed six of the seven hits that del Guaso’s team hit in that episode, including five extra-base hits in a row, including three home runs in a row, with which they scored their five runs. It was the only great moment for the Indians, because afterwards they only gave one hit: a double by Robert Luis Delgado in the eighth.
