The word “ataja”, but in reverse of its traditional meaning, will have to be given to the Ciego de Ávila team, which these days also remembers the Gardelian phrase of “downhill in its roll”. This Tuesday they lost to Cienfuegos 2×8 and already have four setbacks in a row in the final stretch of the 63rd National Baseball Series.
In the 5 de Septiembre stadium, the Avilanian offense could only get eight hits against the battered pitching of Los Elefantes, who are not by chance in the last places of the competition. The victory belonged to starter Maikel Enmanuel Borrell.
This time Dachel Duquesne pitched the first five innings in great form, in which he filled the scoreboard with zeros and limited the Pearl’s attack to only four hits, while his teammates gave him a lead of one in the third due to a booster rocket. Rubén Valdés who brought in Liosvany Pèrez who had received a base and stolen second.
But in the sixth the locals made a great six-run rally. The party started with a home run by Yosimar Quintana through the left field and then Félix Rodríguez hit a double.
Then outs one and two appeared, but the hosts had the party ready for that inning because then there were two singles, a walk and a triple by Dany Jesús Oramas that brought two of the scores and a double by Erick Acevedo to complete the rally.
Once again, Los Tigres’ defense made two errors—Rubén and Castillo—which is why it now ranks 14th in this department, while its offense is ninth with 294 and its pitching is fourth with 4.77 Earned Runs Per Game.
Despite the current bad moment of Dany Miranda’s team (34-29), the advantage is still four games over the occupants of the three teams – Guantánamo, Villa Clara and Camaguey – who are tied in eighth place (30-33 ).
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