Fortitudo baseball beats Padua twice, and thinks about the second phase

Fortitudo baseball closes the first phase of the 2022 Serie A baseball with twelve consecutive wins, six sweep scored for the complete domination of Group Band access to the final phase in which we will play the place for the Scudetto final. The last series of matches, those against Padova, by now they were no longer useful for the purposes of the ranking for the Effe, now mathematically first, but the two wins 10-0 and 11-0close this first segment of the season in the best possible way, waiting for more convincing and decisive matches.

Good debut on the mound in the Italian-American race on Saturday Christian Scafidi, arrived under the two towers during the week. During yesterday’s Facebook direct, two market indiscretions also arrived: Fortitudo is working to get a thick shortstop and trying to bring back to Bologna Osman Marvalwhich is not yet certain, more due to the regulation of the championship than to the will of the club and player.

Next week the championship will stop for a break, and then we will start with the Poule Scudetto, the phase in which it will be absolutely forbidden to make mistakes because it will lead directly to the final for the championship.

Race 1 – Padova-Fortitudo 0-10

Last Friday night came the eleventh consecutive victory for UnipolSai Fortitudo, who won 10-0 at Padovawith the Bolognese starting strong going 4-0 in the first two innings, and then closing just as strong with 5 points in the last two.

The race is unlocked by a double of Renzo Martiniwhich he sends home Ricardo Paolini e Kevin Josephina, authors of two valid, for the 2-0 of the first inning. In the next attack, it is the second valid of Paolini to bring the result of 4-0, with Filippo Agretti (base ball) e Julian Dreni (hit) that mark the colon. The pitchers at this point take over the match, albeit at 6th Agretti with a valid send home Alessandro Grimaudo for the 5-0.

However, it is in the eighth inning that the tombstone on the match arrives, already virtually closed when UnipolSai scores 4 points, when the local mound is in trouble. In the last attack fortitudino comes the final 10-0 with the sprint of sacrifice Paolini that he sends home Grimaudo who had previously hit a double. At the batting box good performance as always for Ricardo Paoliniwith a 2 of 4, 1 base ball, 3 RBI and 1 point scored.

On the mound well Maurizio Andretta that in 5 innings launched he conceded only 5 hits and 1 base ball, later replaced by Alex Bassani (only 2 valid ones granted) and by Filippo Crepaldiwho in the ninth inning recorded 8 strikes out of 11 pitches.

Race 2 – Fortitudo-Padova 11-0

The second race of the series was held on Saturday night at “Gianni Falchi”, and the hosts have won with a score of 11-0 completing the sixth sweep consecutive and second shootout against the Venetians, with yet another seasonal victory for manifest superiority.

Men of the Manager Daniele Frignani immediately start very aggressive, with Ricardo Paolini which immediately realizes a valid and a base theft, and then thanks to the sprint of sacrifice of Kevin Josephina and the valid of Gilmer Lampe goes to point. The Dutchman is then the protagonist of a double steal that leads him directly to third, then pushed home for the 2-0 which ends the first inning from the single of Renzo Martini.

On the Bolognese launch pad Raul Rivero has no mercy on the host attack (3 hits granted against 10 strike outs in 5 innings launched), with only Riccardo Benetton able to constantly see the throws of the “Big Man”, and so you get to the lower part of the third inning on the score of 2-0, and here Fortitudo virtually puts an end to the meeting. A decline in the departing from Padua and the continuous grind of valid for Effe, bring 5 points as a dowrydouble in an inning full of hits Lampe that opens the dance, e the double of Alessandro Grimaudo who is worth 3 points.

The lower part of the fifth brings another 4 points to Fortitudo baseball, which fix the result on 11-0 at the endarrived with a single of Martini and a double of Ernesto Liberatore. In the sixth inning debut for the Italian-American pitcher arrived from the NCAA Christian Scafidi, who shows up with 9 strikes out of 10 pitches, eliminating two out of three opponents in the pot. In the seventh and last inning, given that the Bolognese win by manifest due to the 11-0 advantage, space also for Murilo Gouveawho, in order not to be outdone by the new partner, recorded 2 strike outs with 11 pitches made, of which 9 strikes.