A season of excellent baseball has Pinar del Río as the only one without problems facing the playoffs. Not only because he is the leader, but also because he has not lost any subseries, and there are no signs of a debacle. If they only win two games, or lose two Guantánamo and Camagüey, they would be officially classified.
Las Tunas, with five pending positions with the current runner-up, Isla de la Juventud, does not have an easy end, as Industriales, Artemisa and Granma, all on the front edge of the table and looking to settle in the play offs with a better location , they pose a challenge. If it gets complicated in that epilogue, you would be forced to rescue those five challenges that, in our view, would only not be played if you finish in first place on June 20, with an advantage that is unattainable by another. But that doesn’t seem possible.
Granma needs, from today, to show all the power of its bats against the pineros. A sweep would take them to 43 wins, already a comfortable situation to face the end of the calendar against Pinar del Río and Las Tunas, in games that could be the advances to the play offs.
In my opinion, both Las Tunas and Granma would surpass, at the end of the regular calendar, 45 victories, and that is a postseason figure.
The last stage of Industriales is not so easy, you will see Lumberjacks and Wasps online, and at least you need to win each match 3-2, to avoid falling into the calculator’s web.
The people of Santiago are going to a difficult clash with Artemisa, a team that the more committed it is to its pass, and now lives that moment, the more dangerous it is. The Hunters guard, in eighth place, the entrance door to the playoffs, so there is no other goal for them other than winning, against the Wasps, which is the squad that performs best at this moment, because of the last ten challenges he has won eight.
Ciego de Ávila, with three successes in the last ten appearances, will face two teams consecutively, Cienfuegos and Mayabeque, without an invitation to the last part of the campaign. If you do not take advantage of it, you may enter an irreversible crisis.
For the Matanzas, defeating Holguín as comfortably as possible is a key, since they have the Agramontinos and Indios del Guaso in two lines; to three Villa Clara and four to the Hurricanes. His last two commitments are, precisely, against people from Camagüey and Mayabequenses.
The last of those in the luxury zone is Artemisa, who after crossing paths with the Santiago team, fifth in the table, what comes next is the third, Granma, and the leader. Those from Guantanamo and Camagüey, Villa Clara, Sancti Spiritus and those from Mayabeque will be very attentive to these results, because they are so close to that coveted eighth floor, that the last two are three behind.
Aside from the quality debt, the 63rd National Series will keep us in suspense until the last day. That won’t be a perfect move, but it’s a good one and a welcome one.
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