José Amaury Noroña Gándara, outfielder and fifth hitter in the offensive lineup of the Crocodiles of Matanzas, surpassed the barrier of fifteen home runs and fifteen stolen bases during the continuation of the LXIII National Baseball Series (SNB).
In the second lawsuit staged in the Victoria de Girón Stadium between his team and the Holguín Cubs, the sensational hitter hit a home run in the fourth inning with his teammate Ariel Sanchez in circulation, after taking advantage of a pitch in the strike zone by Holguín reliever José M. Rivas to place the ball outside the baseball park.
“It was a goal set before the Series began. I always sought to combine feature-length hits with stolen bases, so now I can only feel satisfaction after achieving it,” the one from Matanzas, leader in Slugging, OPS (On-Base Average and Batting Power), and home runs, told the press. in the II Elite Cuban Baseball League.
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The recently turned 27-year-old player thanked the family and all his followers, who keep him calm and focused on his ambitious goals, who thus becomes the twelfth Cuban player of all time to achieve this milestone within the classics. national. The last one was also from Matanzas, when Yurisbel Gracial He achieved it in 2016.
“Breaks are not sought, I think they emerge on their own from work and effort on the field, although there are home runs that as a player you do go out looking for,” acknowledged the runner-up of the 2012 U-15 World Cup held in Mexico.
With experiences in the national teams from lower categories, the member of the Creole team for the 2015 Youth World Cup in Japan stressed that a possible call to the Cuba senior team does not reveal the athlete from the municipality of Colón, although he hopes to join the ranks of a future call for international events.
Noroña Gándara, with experience in leagues in the Dominican Republic and Spain, shows the leadership in runs scored throughout the Cuban season with 69, while presenting a batting average of 338, in addition to 68 runs batted in and 17 stolen bases.
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