A violent aggression starring last Saturday by Eriel Sánchez, director of the roosters of Sancti spírituson the technical commissioner of the National Commission, Miguel Rojas, has shuddered the followers of the 64 National Baseball Series (SNB).
In a brief publication in its profile in X the National Commission presented on Monday that its disciplinary commission “analyzes the incident” and clarifies that both “will not act in the 64 SNB until the measures to be applied are defined.”
The Disciplinary Commission of the National Baseball Commission analyzes the incident that involved the director of the Sancti Spíritus team, Eriel Sánchez, and the technical commissioner Miguel Rojas.
They will not act in the 64SNB until the measures to be applied are defined. pic.twitter.com/z9rzoztw1l– National Baseball Commission (@directionnacio5) SEPTEMBER 29, 2025
Without details of official sources on the subject, rumors on social networks indicate that Sanchez would have hit Reds with a blunt object, who would have suffered wounds in his head according to photos that have circulated on the same route.
The journalist Boris Luis Cabrera, who usually covers the tournament for several official media on the island, repudiated what happened from his profile on Facebook and ordered the Cuban baseball and softball federation (FCBS) The competent authorities to “act urgently and without contemplations.”
The details
The germ, according to a newspaper report EscambrayIt was a play in the eighth inning, when, with the bases full, there was a double play that invalidated what would have been the sixth race for the spirit, who acted as visitors.
There was then a heated discussion between Eriel and Rojas. “The referees explained the play to Eriel. When the game ended, he came to the table to claim, and unloaded with reddish, he told him everything, he offended him greatly and even lied to the mother. Rojas turned and ripotó him,” explains Wilfredo Hernández, technical commissioner of referees, present at the scene.
“It was very unpleasant among two companions who played together, the two sports glories,” said Pavel Reyes, provincial commissioner of Baseball in functions, according to the media, which communicated with those involved this Sunday.
“Eriel, with the right that assists him, declined to talk about the subject. Miguel Rojas, from his home, presented details that will be worth ventilating those who have the commission of doing so.”
Boris Luis Cabrera said that “a warning or symbolic sanction is not enough”, but given the seriousness of the fact “an exemplary measure is needed that protects the integrity of the game and sends a clear sign that in Cuban baseball there is no room for violence.”
“Discipline and respect are not negotiated,” Cabrera concluded when referring to the events that would have occurred during the match between the teams of Sancti Spíritus and Isla de la Juventud, held in the headquarters of the first.
Baseball violence
Although it is not the first violent altercation that has been seen during the present version of the main baseball tournament in Cuba -and that have involved complete teams -, this has undoubtedly been the most notorious for its magnitude and the possibility of putting the lives of one of the participants in the contest at risk.
He has not even spent a month since Guantanamero’s pitcher Álvaro Damián Savón Tejeda assaulted referee Ramón Zamora, who taught justice in the duel in which his team faced Camagüey in Agramontino territory.
Annoying with Zamora’s decision to expel him from the crash for allegedly throwing a ball to a batter, Savón Tejeda hit his guante the impartial’s face.
According to several reports, the incident did not generate major consequences thanks to the timely intervention of the management bodies of both teams.
After analyzing the reports of the arbitration body and technical supervisors, the Disciplinary Commission concluded that there was a serious violation of the discipline, which resulted in the Player’s suspension sanction for 20 gameswhich approved by the National Baseball Commission.
The ruling also established that the player, just 21 years old, could resort to the National Appeal Committee, as provided in Resolution 93 of the National Sports Institute, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER).
In turn, the baseball authority stressed that the decision has an “educational and exemplary character, aimed at safeguarding discipline and respect for the rules in the main sports show of the island.”
