Fortitudo baseball beats Parma in Race 2 and celebrates Grimaudo’s 300th

Last night’s 4-3 Fortitudo baseball victory brings the series back on par against Parma and brings the team of Manager Lele Frignani closer to the mathematical conquest of first place in Group B of the Serie A Poule Scudetto. Race 3, next week, will decide which of the two Emilian teams will win the series.

The race starts immediately well for the Bolognese, with the usual Ricardo Paolini who beats valid and is sent home by his teammates who follow him in the line-up, until the double game is beaten by Lampe closing the innings.

On the other hand, the Parma clubs find bread for their teeth because Maurizio Andretta looks really good: in 5.2 inning, su 80 pitches recorded 50 strikes. At the end of the match, of which he will still be the winning pitcher, he will be credited with two points accrued during his turn and suffered, however, while on the platform he had already climbed Alex Bassaniwhich still leads to an important victory.

But let’s go back to the Bolognese attack. The real watershed of the meeting is il quarto inningwhen the drop in the local starter and some small difficulties in finding the feeling with the relief race, produce the three points of the temporary 4-0 for Fortitudo. Paolini beats once again valid, Josephina follows him with a double that sends his teammate home, then after the change of pitcher, the intentional base is granted to Gonzalez Taveras and therefore Martini gets hit. With full bases, he thinks about it Gilmer lamp to remove a couple of men from the field, with a single from two points that is precisely the 4-0.

In the last two innings Parma wakes up and puts pressure on Fortitudo ma Alex Bassani does not break down too much, closing the match on his part at 4-3. To be fully recovered, even given the 10 men left behind, would have been a real joke. A victory not only important for morale and classification, but also for celebrate the 300 races with Alessandro Grimaudo’s Effe shirt and the birthday of Gonzalez Taveras.