Isaïes Tejeda and Melky Cabrera took the ball out of the park and were the main protagonists of a quartet of players who distributed the nine unstoppable that connected the Eagles Cibaeñas last night, to prevail over the Lions of the Chosen 7-3, in a match held on Friday night at Cibao Stadium.
With the victory, the Eagles claim second place, after coming in third place before the start of the match, which marked the debut of the “Tsunami”, Carlos Martínez.
Tejeda led the Eagles offensive with quadrangular, double and single; Cabrera home run and one of a base, Ramón Torres double and single and Rangel Ravelo 2 unstoppable.
Seven Yellow Throwers drew 14 unstoppable red bats to limit them to just four touchdowns.
For the Lions Aderlín Rodríguez hit a home run single, Franchy Be double and hit, Brett Sullivan and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 2 of a base to head your team.
The result left the winners sparse with a 14-12 mark that puts them in second place. The losers were 14-14 and dropped to fourth place in the standings.
Luis Felipe Castell (1-0) was left with the victory, the defeat for Miguel Martínez (0-1) and the saved game was credited to Neftalí Feliç (7).
The debut of the “Tsunami”
The match marked the debut of the pitcher Carlos Martínez (The Tsunami), who left without a decision, with a work of 3.1 innings, faced 16 batters, allowed 7:00 hits, two runs, one clean, he did not give away a ticket and a poncho to four.
After Martínez, Darío Álvarez (4), Luis Felipe Castillo (5), Juan Nicasio (6), Gregory Soto (7), Michael Ynoa (8) and Neftalí Feliç (9) climbed the mound.
For the Chosen, left-back Miguel Martínez, who was only 2.2 episodes, faced 12 rivals, allowed 4:00 hits, four runs that were clean, did not award bases for balls and blew two.
After Martínez, Samuel Adames (3), Edward Paredes (4), Tai Tiedeman (5), Andrés Núñez (5), Rhiner Cruz (6), Fernando Rodney (7) and Anderson Severino (8) took over.
the races
The Eagles made two notes in the first by solitary quadrangulars of Melky Cabrera and Isaías Tejeda.
The scarlet ones discounted with one to the third by simple of Estevan Florial, Iván Castle was embassed by error to put runners in the corners and Franchy Be towed to Florial with pipe.
At the end of the third, the gables returned to the load with unstoppable Ramon Torres and, after two outs, single by Angel Ravelo and double tug by Isaïes Tejeda.
The fourth looked great for the Lions when Joe Dunand and Brett Sullivan fired single runs and Aderlin Rodriguez hit the ball into center field. But Dunand misread the bat and was put out on the eraser. Sullivan, who advanced to third, scored from Estevan Florial’s sacrifice fly.
In the fifth came the fifth of the yellows for singles by Rangel Ravelo and Isaías Tejeda, ball to Johan Camargo and shot by Robel Garcia.
In the sixth of the reds, Aderlin Rodriguez connected long quadrangular by the left garden against Nicasio for the third of the visitors.
The gables took off again from three with one to sixth for a double by Ramon Torres and a single tug by Melky Cabrera.
In the seventh Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. and Gregory Polanco got their first hits of the game after an offside, scoring a shot on goal.
Without hitting unstoppable the Eagles made another in the eighth when Robel Garcia negotiated 4:00 bad and stole the intermediate, advanced to third with a shot by Jon Kemmer and scored with a sacrifice bat on the left wall of Francisco Peña.
The Eagles and Lions will face each other again this Saturday at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium, in what will be the last clash between the two in the regular round.