With great pitching, timely hitting and taking advantage of opposing mistakes, the Lions of Escogido shut out the Gigantes del Cibao 10-0, in a match held this Thursday at the Julián Javier stadium.
Left-hander Ethan Small threw five innings of three hits and a transfer, striking out six opponents. The impeccable mountain work was completed by Elvis Peguero (1.0), Gerson Bautista (1.0), Steven Wilson (1.0) and José López (1.0).
The capitaleños opened the slate in the same first chapter when Erik González doubled to the center, cheated the anteroom and entered the race for Isaías Tejeda’s sacrifice fly to the right field.
In the sixth, Tejeda pushed one more with another sacrifice fly, this time to left field, taking Francisco Urbáez, who had reached base by ticket, opening the episode, to the register.
The Reds scored four lines in the seventh, which Yainer Díaz started with a transfer courtesy of Rafael De Paula, later a single by Engel Beltré to right field and a throwing error by outfielder Moisés Sierra allowed Díaz to reach the plate and Beltré to sneak in. in second, from where he scored for Urbáez undisputed to the right field, who was installed in the anteroom due to an error in shooting by receiver Carlos Paulino. Then Urbáez reached the rubber with the fifth of the Capitaleños thanks to a hit by Jimmy Paredes to the right field, which moved González to third, after taking a walk.
A wild pitch by Carlos Ramírez brought González to the plate with the sixth scarlet.
The Lions scored three more in the eighth, and one more in the ninth with Gabriel Guerrero’s solo homer down the left field off Cody Mince, which marked the visitors’ tenth round.
Small was the winning pitcher (1-0). The loss went to Adalberto Mejía (0-1), who allowed one return in five innings.
For the hairy ones, Urbáez went 4-2, with three runs scored, one RBI and a walk; Paredes, 3-2 with three RBIs and two transfers; González, 4-2 with a double, two runs scored and stolen base, and Guerrero, 5-2, home run, scored and RBI. For the Northeast, Richard Ureña hit 3-2 and Juan Francisco 4-1.
After the match, the Chosen One is placed with a 1-1 mark and the Franco-Corisans at 0-2.
The scarlet team will return this Friday to the Quisqueya Juan Marichal stadium to receive the Giants from 7:15 at night.
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