Golden triumph which was achieved on Wednesday night by the representative of Mexico in the 2021 Mazatlán Caribbean Series. Tomateros de Culiacán he beat his peer from Panama, to stay alive in the Caribbean jsuta held at the Teodoro Mariscal Stadium. The Aztecs will play their place in the semifinals tomorrow Thursday against Venezuela.
TRI improved their record to 2-2, as did the Canaleros who are also in contention for a pass to the next round.
* PITCHING *
Left-handed Anthony Vasquez started for Mexico and was the winning pitcher with a seven-inning effort for four hits, two runs (one earned), perfect control and three strikeouts. He threw 89 pitches (63 strikes) over 25 batters, leaving his ERA at 1.29. They relieved Fernando Salas and the Panamanian left-hander Alberto Baldonado closed.
For Panama, Luis Machuca (loser) started on the hill with a line of work of three rounds with two thirds, two hits, two annotations (clean), two walks and a chocolate with a total of 72 shots (37 strikes) in 15 batters and its PCLA closed at 4.91. Later the Sinaloan Wálter Silva and Alberto Guerrero came to the relief.
* NOTES *
The first country to score a run was that of the visitors, when in the bottom of the second inning David Rodríguez hit a double to right field opening the shoot-out, Héctor Gómez hit base on first base error and Dominican Willy García sent Rodríguez home. with roll for double play.
However, Mexico not only equalized in the fourth inning but also turned the tables with a bouquet of four races, the product of a Grand Slam by Julián León. It all started with a two-out walk to Efrén Navarro, the same happened with Jesse Castillo, with which starter Luis Machuca exploded from the mound.
The Mexican reinforcement Wálter Silva came to the relief, activated this same day by Panama and intentionally walked Víctor Mendoza to fill the house and the figure of Navarro appeared to give the home run with congested bases, which gave Tomateros an advantage of 4-1. The hit was on the line to left field.
Panama approached 2-4 in the sixth with a solo homer by Jhonny Santos’ left.
But Benjamín Gil’s men responded again and made it 5-2 in the seventh with a single to the left of Jesús Fabela, scoring with a hit to the right of Ramiro Peña. In the eighth inning, they scored the 6-2 with a single by Efrén Navarro, who scored with a hit by José Guadalupe Chávez, who missed shortstop Jonathan Arauz.
The Panamanian Chiriquí Feds went 3-6 in the eighth with a hit to left by Allen Córdoba, driving in Jhonny Santos.
* DAY FIVE *
This Thursday ends the round robin phase (all against all) with three games. Panama against Puerto Rico at 11:00, Colombia against the Dominican Republic at 15:30 and Venezuela against Mexico at 8 at night, all with Sinaloa time.
