The voltage at each throw o swing; restrained breathing, emotions that are sometimes contained and that in others turn heroism into frustration. Thus, the excellent ball game between Granma and Industriales was experienced, in which Alazanes crowned their triumphant entry in the semifinals of the 60th national series.
The Granmens hung on two arms to support the narrow, but long-awaited, 2-1 victory. One of them was again the one from Yara’s cannon, Lázaro Blanco, who, armed with all his economy, knew how to get out of a first chapter of two tickets and two hits, tolerating the only one among the Blues, because, from there, he devotes himself in 107 expeditions and leads his cavalry with six blows, without hitting any other opponent and distancing himself four more blows.
His teammates responded and matched the shock in the same first chapter, after the first 12 uncontrolled expeditions of starter Maykel Taylor, ten of them balls and the driver of a foal who was always “wild” in this type of meeting, Carlos Benítez, author , apart from the other annotation, after hitting tubey in the third and registering for another semester, this one by Iván Prieto, who in simulate led six of his team’s 16. Almost out of three, one was towed by himself.
The other arm? It was not that of a pitcher, but of the right player Alexquemer Sánchez, responsible for two outs the keys to success. In the seventh, with Juan A. Torriente in the initial (for his jit in the national series) and two outs, Andrés Hernández launched a cloudbreaker that was incorporated into the top of the fence. The talented hitter was betrayed by the enthusiasm of what seemed to be a decisive home and barely ran to the first, looking at what would be a heroic act, but when he hit the fence and wanted to gain another base , Sánchez fired a “rocket” at second base and convicted him without Torriente arriving a house, something also contradictory, because it must be done with a connection of those features.
A chapter later, Lisbán Correa hit a line on Sánchez’s lawn, which reached that awkward corner of the field. The man from the capital wanted to reach the intermediary, but once again the chestnut broke the fear of his opponents.
Blanco and Sánchez, and those details hidden in any sport, which go through adrenaline, concentration, observation and calculations of what each action represents in each moment, were the keys to this crucial clash. In baseball they are even more harmful, because in more than two and a half hours of play, any madness has its effect, because, for example, in a challenge like yesterday, there is no second chance.
When there is a delivery like the one we saw in this game, there is no consolation for the one who falls, but the players and fans of the capital have nothing to blame, not even those tactical gaps. Their launch, which became the weak point, took them into the fifth game; on the offensive they always looked for another one and in the custody of the field they shone. So did Granma, who left her 314 offensive average for her pitchers to decide, along with experienced director Carlos Martí, breaking the Avilés-Despaigne dumbbell in search of Carlos Benítez’s bat, and she was right.
It was two hours and 51 minutes in which the players made us be Leones and other chestnuts for a while. Duels like these are never going to end. Yes, it was worthy of a final, in which only one can win, and Granma triumphed, because the ball that allows the least wins, and for that you need the clarity of Blanco’s pitch and a defense that serves outs performed by Alexquemer Sánchez.
RESULTS OF THE DAY
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Jose Antonio Huelga |
C |
H |
E |
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IND |
100,000,000 |
1 |
8 |
0 |
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GAME |
101,000,000 |
2 |
6 |
1 |
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G: L. Blanco (2-0). Î: P. Hernández (0-2). Sv: C. Santana. |
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