The most awaited moment of the weekend of Baseball Stars in Cuba will take place here today, when the voice of “play ball” is heard at the top between Occidentales and Orientales at the Victoria de Girón stadium.
The best exponents of the first round of the 61 National Series will represent their geographical regions and the public will be able to applaud these outstanding figures in the domestic sphere.
Finally, Pedro Pablo Revilla from Guantanamo, author of 17 home runs, Yasser Julio González from Pinar del Río (14), defending monarch, Rafael Viñales from Las Tunas and Alfredo Fadraga from Avila, both with nine, qualified for the final round of the Home Run Derby.
Other dominators of the previous date were the ranger Carlos Gómez (Sancti Spíritus) and the mask Oscar Valdés (Industrials), interpreters of the most precise shots from the outfield and to second base, respectively.
In the double play combination, the fastest was the one made up of Yorbis Borroto, Raúl González and Yordanis Samón with a time of 2.18 seconds, slower than the record set since 1986 by the Camagüeyan trio of Luis Ulacia, Sergio Quesada, and Leonel Moa (1.91)
The Sunday program will begin at 1:00 p.m., local time, although the finalists of the home run festival will first define who is the athlete with the greatest power in the wrists among all those present in Matanzas, venue for the third time in the history of a home run event. this caliber.
