The team that will represent Cuba in the V World Baseball Classic (WBC) culminated his preparation with a 6-0 victory over Hermanos de CTBC, champion of the professional league of taiwanwhere the tournament will begin on March 8.
The duel was held at the Taichung Intercontinental Stadium, where group A of the tournament will be played, and featured Yoan Moncada, who went 2-2 and hit a two-run homer in the third act, according to he report from the sports portal Hit.
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“I have given continuity to the work that I have been doing, concentrating on the fact that the most important thing is to help the team,” said the member of the Chicago White Sox in Major League Baseball (MLB).
His home run through the right field opened the scoring, and another Cuban score came in the sixth inning, from hits by Lorenzo Quintana and Luis Mateo, and a connection through Yadir Drake’s infield that prompted the first of them adds information.
The remaining three runs appeared in the ninth, two of them propelled by a hit by Alfredo Despaigne.
The local cast used six pitchers, like the island’s representation, with the major leaguer Roennis Elías as starter. Miguel Romero, José Ramón Rodríguez, Yeudis Reyes, Naykel Cruz and Frank Abel Álvarez continued to work to limit the hosts’ offense to eight hits.
According to the outlet, the Cuban manager, Armando Johnson, was satisfied with the preparation carried out on Asian lands, which included the dispute of 11 exhibition duels: five in Japan with a balance of two victories and three defeats, and another six in Taiwan in the one that his disciples were successful on three occasions.
“We have worked well, with total dedication from the boys, and now all that remains is to face the competition,” said the strategist to Hit.
The Cuban team will hold its last training session this Tuesday (local time), to face the Netherlands a day later in the opening page of group A of the World Classic.
In addition to these two teams, the host team is part of the key, along with those of Italy and Panama.
Cuba has been present in the four previous editions of the tournament and its best performance so far was the second place, occupied in the initial version, when the team reached the final but lost to Japan.
