The Cuban team baseball This Tuesday, the sub-23 got its first victory in the World Cup of the category, based in Taiwanand still has a chance of advancing to the Super Round of the tournament.
In a close match with many tensions, the ninth team from Cuba managed to beat their similar team from Mexico with a score of 2×0, and with this they also frustrated, at least for the moment, the classification of their rivals to the phase of the six best cast of the contest.
On the synthetic grass of the Taipei Tianmu Baseball stadium, the team led by Alain Álvarez once again exhibited little offensive power, but this time they scored the necessary points for the victory in the upper part of the seventh and last episode of the game, as reported the agency Latin Press (PL).
The winners had their crowning moment when pinch-hitter Bryan González “left his nerves in the dugout” and hit an RBI double for a run, reports the news release.
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In the seventh inning itself, the extension of the advantage for the Island came, when a wild pitch by the Mexican reliever with the bases loaded led to the race that put definitive figures on the board.
Meanwhile, the Cuban pitchers hired in the japanese professional leagueMarlon Vega and Frank Abel Álvarez —the latter being the winner of the match— managed to contain the Mexicans’ offense to just three hits.
According to official crash statistics referred by PLthe Cubans had their most notable presentation with the wood by hitting six hits, but they were once again owing in the production of runs, since they only stepped on the plate a couple of times.
In this way, they have scored only four runs in the 28 innings they have held. These annotations have come just in the last two challenges, counting the 2×3 defeat against the Netherlands, after suffering two grouts —0v5 against Puerto Rico and 0v4 against South Korea— in their first presentations.
Cuba suffers against the Netherlands its third defeat in the U-23 Baseball World Cup
Now the cast of the Island presents a balance of success in four games and is forced to beat Australia on Tuesday night (Cuba time) in the suspended game of the second date, and wait for a “true miracle”, in the opinion of PLwhich opens the doors to the Super Round and, with it, to the fight for the medals.
For this possibility to occur, a series of unlikely results would have to be woven in the rest of the matches that remain to be held in group B of the tournament, which will lower its curtains for the next day 23.
In that key, Cuba is now in fifth place, with one success and three defeats, as well as the Netherlands, a team that has already defeated it. Meanwhile, South Korea already has a secure spot in the Super Round, with four wins without setbacks, while Australia, Mexico and Puerto Rico add two and two, and are better positioned than the Island to reach the two remaining tickets to the next phase.
For the other group, tickets went to host Taipei (5-0), Japan (4-1) and Colombia (3-2), while Venezuela (2-3), Germany (1-4) and South Africa (0-5), no longer have a chance to climb to the podium.
