Starting this Tuesday, the Wasps of Santiago de Cuba will play the three remaining games to complete the calendar of the qualifying stage and they will do so as visitors against the Guantánamo Indians who this Sunday settled the pending match with the Pirates of La Isla with an overwhelming victory of 11 runs to 1, KO in eight episodes.
With this victory, Rubén Prevot’s hosts reached a balance of 37 wins and 35 losses, that is, the same balance achieved by the Gallos de Sancti Spíritus, the latter team taking advantage of having won the bilateral commitment and therefore boasts the eighth step in the standings.
Then, the Guantanamo Indians keep their aspirations fully alive to get the long-awaited ticket to the play-offs and will come out ready to achieve it against the team from Santiago de Cuba that has already reached a ticket to the quarterfinals but is still fighting to establish itself among the first four and thus ensuring the status of home club at the start of the postseason.
Theoretically, the Avispas could finish this segment of the championship with the same number of victories as Las Tunas and Granma, two teams that they currently have ahead of them, but it is a variable that is very difficult to specify since the Leñadores still have six games pending and the Alazanes five; And even more, if this almost magical situation crystallized, the indomitables would give in in both cases to these teams because they lost the bilateral commitment to both.
So reality dictates that the viable option for Eddy Cajigal’s troop is to secure the fourth place that they now occupy and for which there are three other groups capable of fighting for it, such as Industriales, Ciego de Ávila and Matanzas. who accumulate 39 victories and 33 losses; However, with only one win against Guantánamo, the Wasps will be unattainable for all three.
Even more, in the event that the people of Santiago lose the three games with Guantánamo and both Industriales and Ciego de Ávila and Matanzas win all three and there is a quadruple tie, it is worth remembering that Santiago de Cuba won the bilateral duel against the Leones and the Tigres and only lost to the Crocodiles.
Therefore, in this range of possibilities, the most feasible thing is that the Wasps achieve at least one victory against the Guantanamo tribe and with the fourth seat secured they can begin the play-offs at the Guillermón Moncada.
Finally, I want to note that for this commitment in the lands of Guaso there is the possibility, previously announced, that catcher Harold Vázquez, another of the players who have returned to the Cuban soil to compete in our national championship, may see action.
Vázquez is a young receiver of just 22 years of age with a very good somatotype and to whom the technicians attribute, in addition to defensive performance, potential with the wood although his slight footprint in just one national series with the Wasps left discreet numbers in both orders.
Finally, a look at the commitments that will start this Tuesday and the current state of the standings
Pinar del Rio vs Artemisa in Capitan San Luis
Isle of Youth vs Industrialists in Cristóbal Labra
Mayabeque vs Matanzas in the Victoria de Girón
Cienfuegos vs Sancti Spíritus on September 5
Ciego de Ávila vs Camagüey at the José Ramón Cepero
Granma vs Las Tunas in the Mártires de Barbados
Villa Clara vs Holguín at the Augusto César Sandino
Guantanamo vs Santiago de Cuba at the Nguyen Van Troi
Positions table:
PRI 46-24
LTU 41-23 2.0
GRA 44-26 2.0
SCU 42-30 5.0
IND, CAV and MTZ 39-33 8.0
SSP 37-35 10.0
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GTM 37-35 10.0
LCV 36-36 11.0
ART 33-36 12.5
MAY 34-38 13.0
CMG 31-41 16.0
HOL 25-47 22.0
CFG 24-48 23.0
IJV 19-48 25.5
