The Cuban team suffered on Monday its third consecutive loss in the World Cup under 23’s baseball based in Taiwanby losing with a score of 2-3 against his counterpart from the Netherlands, according to official media reports on the Island.
The decisive score came in the sixth inning from the legs of Tommy van de Sanden, thanks to a double steal (home and second) poorly defended by the Caribbean players, according to a report from the agency Latin Press (PL).
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The previous runs marked by the Dutch were due to an RBI single by Shervyen Newton in the opening chapter, and another indisputable signed by Kaeber Ayrton Gemy Rog, when in the third inning he found the bases loaded, adds the information.
In the same first inning, Cuba scored its two and only runs so far in the tournament, when Guillermo Garcia from Granma, one of the team’s players with professional experience, drove in teammates Cristhian Hidalgo and Yuri Marcos Fernández.
This defeat practically eliminates any possibility that the cast of the Island will advance to the Super Round by group B, since even winning the remaining two matches would not be enough for them to finish among the top three of the key, except for an unlikely tie with another campus values PL.
After a unfortunate debut against Puerto Rico (0-5), and the duel with Australia was suspended due to rain, those led by Alain Álvarez had lost to the representation of South Korea (0-4)in a game decided in the last inning by a home run with the bases loaded for the Asian team.
With the most recent outcome, the Cuban team shows a balance of 0-3 and this Tuesday (Monday night in Cuba) they will look for their first success in the tournament when they face the Mexican team. The cap with the Australians would take place at the conclusion of the group stage matches, according to the realignment planned by the organizers.
Cuba qualified for this tournament thanks to second place achieved in the Pan American Championship of the categoryheld in Mexico, a contest marked by a failed escape attempt by players Alfredo Fadraga and Yosvany Ávalos, who left the hotel where the delegation was, but a day later they were returned to the concentration by Mexican authorities.
Both were sent back to Cuba before the tournament ended and were later banned from the country’s baseball competition system.
The pale performance so far of the national squad in the Asian event comes as another bucket of cold water for the island baseballwho had regained some good feelings with the subtitle won recently in the universal appointment of the sub-15 category.
It is a reality that this sport, declared Cultural Heritage of the nation, has been going through its worst moment for some time, affected by the constant departure of its best figures who seek on their own to sign a contract with one of the MLB teams in the United States. States, as well as for the mismanagement of its directors.
In this sense, the most recent chapter was carried out by the national commission, which was forced to postpone the start of the nascent Elite League due to the delay in the arrival of the uniforms and equipment purchased from the TeamMate company, after its main director assure on national television that everything necessary was already in the country.
