To the beat of 15 hits, 04:00 connected by Melky Cabrera, the Eagles Cibaeñas defeated the Lions of the Chosen 11 laps again. The victory consolidates him in the second position of the Dominican winter ball, for the BHD-León cup, dedicated to Mr. José Manuel Fernández.
The Quisqueya-Juan Marichal Stadium was the scene of the meeting, the first of the triple day in the afternoon. The victory puts the set of sparrows with a mark of 15-12.
The victory was for Darío Álvarez (W, 2-0) and lost Enny Romero (0-2), who jumped off the mound in the first inning, when the winners scored seven times, with the eighth rescue by Happy Naphtali.
So they lined up the teams
For the Eagles began Melky Cabrera (LF); Ramón Torres (SS); Rangel Ravelo (1B); Isaïes Tejeda (DH); Johan Cmargo (3B); Robel Garcia (2B); Juan C. Pérez (CF); Francisco Penya (C); Arismendy Alcántara (RF).
Pitchers: Yunesky Maya, followed by Daury Torres, Darío Álvarez, Luis Castillo, Junior Fernández, Michael Ynoa and Neftalí Feliç.
For the Lions began Iván Castell (2B); Franchy Be (LF); Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (3B); Aderlin Rodriguez (1B); Gregory Polanco (DH); Brett Sullivan (C); César Puello (RF) Jonathan Guzmán (SS).
Pitchers: Enny Romero, followed by David Paulí, Ramón García; Jonathan Cheshire, Edward Paredes, Víctor Capellà and Jumbo Díaz.
The races of the match
A bad defense of the Lions of the Chosen one allowed that in the same first entrance the Eagles wrote down in seven occasions makes jump of the opening mound of the red ones, Romero, After six batters and more than 25 throws in a third inning, five runs, 3 clean.
The bad episode for the Chosen One began when Estevan Florial did not have good handling of an “easy” fly of Melky Cabrera that was double; an indecision of Vladimir Guerrero in a beating of Tejeda by “fielder ‘s choice”, Rangel Ravelo and an error of the own Guerrero.
Cabrera scored for Ravelo singles; Torres was towed by Camargo’s sacrifice fly; Ravelo by simple of Garci’a; Tiled by single of Rock; Garci’a by double of Alcántara; Peña and Alcántara by Cabrera single.
In the third the sparrowhawks scored one more to extend the advantage to 8-0, when Pérez started the entry with a double, single from Peña and that took him to the anteroom from where he scored for single d ‘Alcántara.
At the bottom of the fifth episode an error by Ramon Torres complicated the inning to the Eagles and the pitcher Maya, for four undeserved runs of five scored by the Lions, and leave the game with no chance of victory.
In the episode they wrote down Florial, towed by simple of Castle; Guzmán for single of Lamb; Castle by Guerrero Jr. sacrifice fly, and Rodriguez homer with Lamb in circulation, to get 8-5 closer to the board.
The Eagles added 3 goals in the sixth to extend the 11-5 lead, when they scored Ravelo, who scored on a selection play; Camargo and García towed by Francisco Peña’s double.
At the bottom of the Lions ’eighth they scored four times to get closer to the blackboard 11-9 again. A home run by Miguel Gómez with Puello in circulation, produced the first two innings and Be and Castell were towed by Guerrero’s double.