Havana, June 5 (ACN) Las Tunas and Granma today came one step closer to the top of the LXIII National Baseball Series when the leaders of Pinar del Río fell, in a day where the bats were hot and four games were They decided by the law of mercy.
Two of those knockouts were delivered by the Alazanes in their Mártires de Barbados stadium against the Piratas de La Isla with scores of 11-0 and 13-0, to get closer to within two games of the place of honor.
In the first match Raico Santos hit a home run with congested corners to seal the score and in the second Guillermo Avilés dispatched two and Alfredo Despaigne one to reach 18 and reaffirm himself as leader in that section.
Lismay Ferrales won yesterday’s suspension to accumulate seven in the campaign and in the second the success went to Sammy Benítez (his sixth), both after walking the entire route of five chapters.
The Lumberjacks had 20 hits to defeat the Leones de Industriales 15-10 for the second consecutive date and were one and a half games away from the top.
Yosvani Alarcón went 3-for-5 with four RBIs and a home run and the ball also disappeared from Julio Antonio Mella, his brother Yordanis and Denis Peña.
For the capital’s team, who hit a dozen hits, Oscar Valdés scored a home run, who also drove in three runs.
At the Nguyen Van Troi, the Guantanamo Indians dug in and knocked out the Vegueros 12-2 with full-round hits from Robert Luis Delgado and Over Cremet, the latter with four hits for the plate.
Enyer Fernández archived his seventh victory by accepting only one earned run in five acts of work and Janier Álvarez took the loss in a 4.1 inning start where six earned runs were scored.
Ciego de Ávila broke a losing streak of four games by leading Cienfuegos 5-3 despite the home runs of Xian Vega and Félix Rodríguez and remained calm in sixth place threatened by the Crocodiles of Matanzas.
The Yumurinos knocked out the Holguín Cubs 12-1 with the 15th home run by José Amaury Noroña and good work on the pitch by Pedro Mesa, who walked the entire seven-inning route.
Finally, Mayabeque shook Villa Clara 13-4 with home runs scored by Jonathan Martínez, Frank Alonso and Dennis Laza and Sancti Spíritus beat Camagüey 2-1 to keep their qualifying aspirations alive.
The match between Santiago de Cuba and Artemisa could not be held due to inclement weather and tomorrow they will play a doubleheader.
