The Lyceum Tigers said goodbye to the fall-winter baseball championship causing damage to the Eastern Stars, who in the fall defeated 6-1 are forced to play the mini-plyaoffs against the Lions of the Chosen.
A five-lap rally in the seventh episode, after two outs, defined the commitment for the Licey that this time his pitching did respond, already a little late, to the height to retain a victory in the last third of the game, which did him so much harm to the contest and main reason for his disqualification. The match was played at the Quisqueya Stadium.
Without much reason to smile, the Tigers at least take the satisfaction of giving one last claw to a team that would have won 16-14, complicating the classification because there would be a quadruple tie, as the Giants of the ‘Cibao (16 -14) also won Wednesday night 4-2 at the Eastern Bulls (16-14). The Eagles Cibaeñas (16-14), who rested today were left with the second position.
The Licey (13-17) stayed in the basement of the regular round and the Stars, with their failure, stayed in fourth place; since the Chosen One finished in fifth, to a game of the place that occupies the green ones, both will have to dispute the miniseries. This miniseries will begin on Sunday at 5:00 pm at the Tetelo Vargas Stadium in Sant Pere de Macorís.
The rule of the championship states that the team that finishes in fourth place, must play a series with which closing of fifth, as long as the difference is three games or less.
Anderson Tejeda, who beat 3-2 (one double) with a score and two innings and Dennicher Carrasco, 4-2 (double and triple), with a pair of tows led the blue attack. Oscar González pushed the only eastern vault.
The Tigers, who close out the regular season by winning their last two games, had the best work of the season, from their Cuban opener, Vladimir Gutierrez (1-2), who threw five blank two-ticket tickets and nine punches to get his first championship win. Only six hits allowed the blue pitching, a task completed by Adonis Medina (2.0), Elvis Luciano (0.1), Ulysses Joaquin (0.2) and Frank Garcés (1.0).
Andy Otero (1-2), who charged with defeat was a highly regarded rival by throwing five innings of a run, five hits and nine strikeouts.
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The Licey scored for the first time in the quarter against Medina, with a double by Erick Mejía in central meadow and after an out, Carrasco continued with another batazo of equal size on the right side to put the game 1-0 .
In the seventh, reliever Chester Pimentel retired Sandy Leon with a lift to the shortstop. Ramón Hernández continued with a single in the left field and Luis Barrera missed from pitcher to first. Michael de León shot single at center Hernandez scored from the middle, the second round blue. Mejía connected single by pitcher to leave men in second and first. Then Tejeda followed with a double in the center to tow De Leon and Mejia and put the game 4-1. This meant the departure of Pimentel, replaced by Claudio Custodi.
The punishment did not stop. Custodio threw a “wild pitch” and Tejeda, who advanced to third, scored for a triple by Carrascto in right meadow. Narcís Crook kept the home side in the game with a magnificent save when Carrasco delivered an almost perfect free kick to the far post.
The only eastern lap came in the eighth against Luciano, who came in to throw for Medina. 3 successive indisputable ones came: Gustavo Núñez by the left, Jeremy Rock by the same route and Oscar González by the power station, with which Núñez wrote down. But Luciano struck out Leyba, Joaquin dominated Socrates Brito with a slap in the face and Lewin Diaz delivered the last out.