The culmination of the second break of the Round Robin finds this Monday the four teams in contention dancing a kind of “bolero”.
All four teams enter the middle of the event with an identical 4-4 record, when the event returns after the break for the New Year’s festivities.
The Giants, who come from whitewashing Licey 3-0. They receive the Stars this Monday, a team that beat the Eagles 10-6, after a balanced attack that was combined with 11 transfers granted by the Cibaeño pitching team. This clash will be at the Julián Javier.
The Stars have come out successful in their two matches against the northeastern, the first with a score of 10-5, while in the second they won 4-2. Andy Otero, effective lefty is expected to be the pitcher for the pachyderms.
On their side, the great rivals of Dominican baseball, the Eagles, visit the Licey at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal stadium for the third clash that both will play, which will begin at 7:15 p.m.
For tonight it is almost certain that there will be a duel between left-handed Cubans, Roenis Elías, who has been unhittable throughout the campaign, is almost certainly the trump card of manager José Leger.
On his side, Raúl Valdés, the veteran of a thousand battles, would pitch for the cats. Elías has a 2-0 record and one of his victims was precisely the Blues, to whom he threw eight blank innings.
Meanwhile, Valdés has thrown good baseball in his two performances in the box, winning the first and leaving without a decision in the second.
This will be the third confrontation between the two clubs, the first was won by the Eagles and the next day the blues retaliated for the setback of the previous night.
The Stars and Giants come from winning on the last date and after that outcome they caused the four-way tie, something strange already in a somewhat adult part of the Round Robin.
The Pachyderms are the team with the best offense with a .277 average, followed by the Eagles with .275, the Giants with .232 and the Tigers with an anemic batting of just .202. In their last clash they only connected three hits.
On their side, the cats dominate in ERA with 2.75 to the Eagles’ 3.30, while the Giants and Stars present a 4.04.
