Miguel Andújar and Jorge Mateu disappear the park ball, Raúl Valdés was phenomenal from the mound and the bulls of the East defeated the Eagles Cibaeñas 3-1, in a meeting held this Friday night at the Stadium Francisco A. Micheli, to force a seventh and decisive game of the “Semifinal B”.
Andújar, who connected 2 of the 7 hits of the Bulls, in addition wrote down one and towed another one, to extend to 13 its streak of consecutive parties basing, between Regular Series and Semifinals, giving of hit in 11 of these encounters .
Matthew, who scored one and towed 2 home runs with one on board in the second act, shot the 9th homer of his career in Dominican baseball including all stages and the 4th he gives in postseason.
Veteran left-back Valdés (1-0, 0.00), claimed the win after throwing 5 solid innings in which he allowed unstoppable May and an undeserved run, at the pace he transferred to one and struck out at 6. The left-hander now has a 16-10 postseason lifetime mark with a net clean average of 2.17
Valdés was followed by relievers Alfredo Simón, who threw a blank entry from a hit, Steven Wilson, who withdrew the 3 he faced in the seventh inning, then veteran Fernando Rodney worked the eighth inning allowing a unstoppable and punching to one and Fernando Abbot sent the ninth episode without allowing liberties and punching to one, aiming his second rescue of the series.
The bullfighting pitted the Eagles batsmen to beat 8-1 with runners in scoring position and forced them to leave 11 runners on the trails.
Yoanner Negrín (1-1, 2.53), charged with defeat after allowing June indisputable and 3 clean runs, in 4 innings and 2 thirds in which he conceded 2 boletosy punched 5 opponents.
THE RACES
The Bulls opened the scoring in the same first inning with a kilometric and solo quadrangular by Miguel Andújar.
In the opening of the second entrance and with runners in the corners, Francisco Peña connected batazo that could not manage the thrower and tied the actions.
The Bulls took control of the game again at the close of the second inning, when Jorge Mateu fired a 2-run homer to turn the board 3-1.
For the Bulls, Miguel Andújar 5-2 with a score and a drive, Yamaico Navarrès 3-1 with a base for balls received, Jordany Valdespín 3-3 with a score and Jorge Mateu 4-1 with a score and 2 towed.
For the Eagles, Rangel Ravelo 3-3 with a score, Johan Camargo 4-1 and Juan Carlos Pérez 4-1.
The series continues this Saturday, when the bulls visit the Cibaeñas Eagles at the Cibao Stadium, starting at 5:00 PM.
TORO-DADES
Miguel Andújar extended to 13 its streak of consecutive parties basing itself, between Regular Series and Semifinals, giving of hit in 11 of these encuentos. Yamaico Navarro has been in his 30 games this season, 24 in the Regular Series and 6 in these playoffs.