Baseball Serie C, A triple defensive game inflames Scialoja despite the defeat of Estra BC Siena

In a sport like baseball, where you can watch rare and incredible events every day, where new records are set during each season, where millions of statistics tell every action on the pitch with extraordinary detail, it is legitimate to ask what can still amaze the staff. jobs and true enthusiasts.

In the American Major League, where each single team plays 162 games a year today, there have been 729 triple defensive games since 1876, namely the act of making three outs in the same play. We do not imagine how many times a triple defensive game has been recorded in the third Italian series (Serie C, whose regular season is on average 12 games per season), also because, to see it, obviously there must not be eliminated and during the something must occur that allows the defense to make three eliminations, so much so that common plays, such as hitter strike out or hitting a fly ball, normally do not offer the opportunity for a triple play and usually the ball must be struck sharply and directly towards an infielder, who performs a very rapid or unexpected action, as well as confusion or errors on the part of the base runners. We certainly know that one of these was at the Antonio Scialoja stadium in Castellina Scalo, in Siena, on Sunday 26 June, in the match between Estra Siena Baseball Club and Brewers Roma, won by the guests with the result of 11 to 2.

The triple defensive game was registered in the eighth round. The protagonists of the second base Juventus Leandro Fernandez Matos (2001) and the first base “Bettele” Castillejos (2002), two millennials authors of a rare play in the world of baseball. The eighth round began with Rome leading 4 to 1 over the bianconeri. On the mound for the Sienese team, at the beginning of the inning, the second relief “Bettele” Castillejos (in the world Paul Hendrick Castillejos). Who grants two ball bases in a row: Andrea Stefanoni outside the Lazio center and then Sacha De Cesario to the second base. Immediate intervention of the manager of Estra Siena, Jesus Barroso Gutierrez, who sends Luis Pena on the mound, moving Castillejos in his place in defense of the first base bag. Murano line in the glove of Leo Fernandez Matos in second, who then touches the pillow to eliminate Stefanoni who detached himself from the base and then assists Bettele Castillejos in first, who closes the triple elimination, with teammates celebrating the protagonists.

THERE IS ALSO A DOUBLE DEFENSIVE GAME – The triple defensive game was not the only occasion in which Fernandez Matos showed himself: at the opening of the match, with solid bases and with one eliminated, the same number six bianconero yes was made the protagonist, together with his brother Alejandro (2006), in a double defensive game: Caminiti’s serve against Alejandro, second shot for the elimination, by his brother Leo, of Caminiti and first assistance for the elimination of the designated hitter guest Sannino.

ONLY 3 BIANCONERI BEAT VALID – The final result, 11 to 2 for the guests, must not be misleading, however, since Sunday’s was certainly the best match played by Estra Siena, with a great performance by Dario Osti on the mountain throwing (6 innings launched, 1 single point immediately, 1 point gained on the pitcher, 10 valid bats, two bases balls, 3 strike outs), a good defensive test by Anthony Pichardo on the right outside (certainly the best of the Juventus outside players) . The only 6 valid bars of the Sienese attack (14 those of the guests) made the difference. On a day of dusting Leo Fernandez Matos (2/4 with a double left), Luis Pena (2 out of 3) and Dario Osti (2 out of 3 too), the only three on the scoresheet, the only ones to have supported in attack the Sienese nine, in which Bettele Castillejos and Anthony Pichardo (3 strike out each, with only Castillejos arriving on base after an opponent’s third base grip error) recorded a decidedly negative day in the box.

Excellent performance by the Juventus receiver Dario Mancini (very tired at the end of the match, 3 hours and forty minutes of play played in a scorching heat of 36 degrees), who on the second round, on a very powerful and precise shot from the right wing by Anthony Pichardo, he knocked out Aprile, who, on Andrea Stefanoni’s right-hand serve, had tried to run home from second base, and on the fourth round he caught stealing from the second baseman Battella.

THE RESULTS – The Bianconeri will now be engaged on 3 July in the trip to Latina, against the team that occupies, together with the Bianconeri, the last place in the standings and which on Sunday were defeated 13 to 3 by Montefiascone. Arezzo instead beat the Dolphins Anzio 12 to 2, continuing to remain in second place in the wake of Junior Grosseto, waiting for the big match on Saturday 2 afternoon between Junior and Arezzo.