The conga overflowed in the Latin American Championship, as Santiago de Cuba is officially the third classified for this season’s playoffs. He did it at the home of his archrival, Industriales, and full of joy because his reference player, Yoelquis Guibert, hit three home runs in the game that sent them to the postseason.
Before starting the campaign, after the Technical Congress, Eddy Cajigal, with the confidence of someone who knows what he is proposing, said that “the first ball has not even been thrown, so it is difficult to talk about favorites, but the only thing I can do is To say is that Santiago de Cuba will be in the play offs.
Holy word from the former second baseman of the Wasps, a team that, under his command, has had an electrifying close to the regular calendar, which has him in fourth position, with seven wins in his last ten outings. That location allows them to start the first game of the postseason at home.
If something was missing to crown Cajigal’s prophecy, Guibert put the icing on the cake. According to the very safe double play combination of Benigno Daquinta and Arnelio Álvarez, his three home runs make him the first from Santiago to manage to bounce three balls in the same game, in Latin America.
The outfielder from Santiago is saying goodbye in style to the 63rd National Series, as he will soon honor his contract in Venezuelan professional baseball. Yesterday’s work at the Coloso del Cerro makes him the 112th player with that merit, and the first to do so in this calendar that is already dying.
The last Santiago native to do so was Alexei Bell, in 2009, and from that hot land he is the one who has done it the most times. Orestes Kindelán, the Drum Major, recorded it seven times.
Guibert’s three home runs go down in the books as the 152nd occasion in Cuban baseball.
