Rally of 5 annotations during the opening of the sixth inning, led the Águila de Veracruz to beat the Algodoneros del Unión Laguna last night with a final score of 5 runs to 3, to equal a victory by side, the Inter Zones series that is being played at the Stadium of the Revolution.
The Guindas saw their 3-win streak broken and fell to a record of 15 wins and 13 losses, while the Águila stood at 14 and 15; Although the most painful thing for the team from La Laguna is that its starting pitcher, Luis Gámez, was injured and will be evaluated to find out how long it takes for him to recover.
HIT FIRST
The offense from La Laguna fueled and took advantage from the very first inning to attack the pitches of Californian right-hander Joshua Guzmán, to whom they made a couple of runs during that dawn of the game. Edgar Robles gave the voice of attack by negotiating a walk and although Albert Lara delivered the first out with a fly ball to right field, Didi Gregorius fired his fifth double of the season and immediately, “El Conejo” Robles scored the run “of the pool Taking advantage of a wild pitch, Jonathan Villar struck out for the second out, but Nick Torres answered with a single to drive Dutchman Gregorius to the register.
Although Guzmán managed to hang the ring in the second round, the Guindas rang again during the third act, without needing to hit a single hit: Torres was walked, advanced to second through a balk, moved to third base with Villar’s ground ball and came home swept after taking advantage of another wild pitch. For the hosts, the right-hander Luis Gámez opened the game and retired two innings without damage, but during the third inning he hurt his throwing shoulder and unfortunately had to leave the game, to be relieved by Omar Araujo, who was filled the house, but came out unscathed by dominating Jesús Valdez with a fly into the box.
REMOVE THE VISIT
During the subsequent innings, a good duel of pitchers was created, supported by good defensive plays, to keep the board without much movement, until during the opening of the sixth roll came the rebellion of the Buenos Aires, who put together a tremendous rally of 5 annotations to give him back to the score
With one out, “Cacao” Valdez grounded out to third base, where Villar made a mistake that opened the door for the visitors, as Edwin Espinal shot a single to the right and immediately, José Gaitán sounded a single hit that led the veteran Valdez to the register with the first visiting stripe.
Marco Fregozo took over and offered no solutions, as he received a strong line from Carlos Arellano, the ball hit Villar in the glove, who had a great reaction, but could not hold it and Espinal scored the second visitor’s run on the play. Still, veteran Christian Zazueta hit a double through the entire left field to take Gaitán to the pentagon with the tie and Arellano to third base, although Fregozo struck out Cristian Mejía for the second out, there he ended his performance and was relieved by left-hander Santiago Gutiérrez, who threw a wild pitch used by Arellano to ring the takeoff run and Gustavo Núñez executed an effective bunt with which he safely reached first base and allowed Zazueta to touch home to round off the rally that at final gave victory to the porteños.
Although the Algodoneros forged their chances to at least equalize the score, the Águila relay prevailed, Jonás Garibay hung the zero in the sixth, Tyler Madrigal did the same in the seventh, Kevin Escorcia removed the thorn and retired the eighth blank. , so that the lefty Samuel Zazueta closed the game with another ring in the ninth round, with which he scored his first save of the season, while for the Guindas, Alejandro Gallegos had a good relief to not allow damage from the people of Veracruz.
DECISION
The starter Joshua Guzmán took his third victory of the year, with the work of 5 innings pitched, in which he received 3 hits and 3 runs, awarded 4 walks and struck out two batters; the defeat was for Marco Fregozo, who only got one out by way of the strikeout, but allowed 2 hits and 2 earned runs that made the difference, since the other 3 runs were for Omar Araujo, 2 of them were earned.
The series will culminate and be defined today, with a game starting at 7:30 p.m.; Likely starters are José Valdez (0 – 1; 9.64 ERA) for Águila and Joe Van Meter (0 – 1; 4.08 ERA) for Unión Laguna.
