When talking about the baseball legacy of the Gurriel, the memory of the home run of Lourdes Father always emerges as one of the iconic moments, not only of the family, but of the history of the national hobby. That hit against the United States to tie the 1988 World Cup final – which later the Antillians would end up winning with Lázaro Vargas as a hero – is the symbol par excellence of the opportunity at the peak times of the mythical dorsal 20 of the spirit teams.
So latent is that memory that, when their children have decided a match in national series, with the Cuba or Major Leagues team, Parma’s home run is always evoked. And this Saturday, for the umpteenth time, we experienced that trip to the past again thanks to Lourdes Jr., who gave the victory to the Diamondbacks against Colorado in the ninth entrance after dispatching a long connection against the fences of the Chase Field of Arizona.
With the clash tied to five and a corridor in Second, the minor of Brother Gurriel dressed in his father’s hero’s suit and connected a fierce line directly to the fences of the left forest to leave the rocks to the field. The hit shot 102 miles and toured 363 feet, very little to leave beyond the limits.
“Yunito” thus rounded a plethoric day, in which he towed half of his team’s scores and also left the defense with a great edge in the fifth entry on a connection of Brenton Doyle that threatens to become extra.
“We feel very good with the support of the more than 38 thousand fans, very grateful because they have continued with us. We play for them, it is the main thing,” He pointed out Gurriel, aware of how frustrating it can be for the fans to see his team with a losing record (56-61) and adopting a stale of vendors on the date of changes, which is almost a sentence for the aspirations of this year.
“The stage of the changes was difficult for us, but we have to assume it because it is so baseball. Personally I just want to contribute to the team to try to win game to the game,” said the spirit patrolman.
Faithful to that thought, his wise party began since the same opening chapter, when he promoted the first race with a single to the left. Later, in La Quinta, he approached the diamondbacks 4-3 with a high sacrifice to law. The cherry cherry then came with its Walk-off In the ninth to the shipments of reliever Jimmy Herget.
Gurriel is going through a good offensive moment and in just eight games in August he has already towed more races (11) than in all July (six), when his production declined a lot, to the point of leaving an OPS of .628. Now he has managed to upload that indicator to .835 during this month.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr.: A home run against more than 100 miles is not a game thing
This is the fourth hit to decide a major league match in Gurriel’s career and his second in this season. The first of these connections was achieved almost five years ago, on August 20, 2020, when it was still at the Toronto Blue Jays. That day he left the Phillies to the field with a single to the left in front of the Venezuelan pitcher Deolis Guerra.
As a curious detail, this was the first and one of the 23 Walk-off which occurred in MLB before the ninth chapter between 2020 and 2021. In those two seasons, affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, it was agreed that the double billboards would play seven entries to preserve the health of the players.
That gave the opportunity for some clashes to be decided before the ninth inning, something extremely rare in the major leagues, where there is not even the Nocao rule. To have an idea, since 1912 there have been 17 600 Walk-off In MLB and only 43 have been before the ninth.
