© Diego Gasperoni
Call it San Ma… Lino. A simple play on words to explain how the catcher of the Italian champions was the absolute protagonist of the first 2022 championship challenge. San Marino wins 3-1, Parma falls on his feet, supported by an excellent Diaz on the platform, but he has to do the accounts with Gabriel Lino (the only one to always go to base) who in the 2nd inning opens the dance with a solo-homer and in the 6th he closes it with a double from 2 rbi in the middle of the outside.
For the rest it is a great duel on the mountain. Henry Centeno starts a bit contracted: a first inning of 26 pitches and two men left on base by Parma. The double of Talevi per second does not scare the San Marino starter, while apart from Lino’s home run, also in the second round, Diaz is an unsolved puzzle for the home line-up. He closes his five rounds with 2 hits, a base ball (to Lino to avoid worse problems) and 6 strike-outs.
Meanwhile, in the fourth, Poma’s team, very aggressive in the box, finds a draw on the Gonzalez (base) -Rodriguez (double) axis. It is the offensive swan song of the Emilians who have managed ten consecutive outs since then. And in the sixth San Marino the garauno mortgage. Contreras starts his game badly, with four very heavy balls to Ferrini. Bindi is on the safe side by asking and getting the bunt from Celli, Talevi is very good at saving the point on the dry beat of Angulo that arrives safely in first, but with the men in the corners, Lino thinks about shooting a double near the fence.
Centeno closes with 9 “kappa” in six innings, Kourtis in the seventh is a guarantee and sends the three batters he faces to the plate. Tomorrow is another story, at 8.30 pm the match of the Italian pitchers is staged, on the mountain the challenge between Tiago Da Silva and Fabiani.
Carlo Ravegnani, born in Rimini on January 31, 1968, began his journalistic career at the age of 20 in the then Gazzetta di Rimini, “replaced” in 1993 by the current Corriere Romagna where he works as a sports editor. Collaborator for the Rimini area of the Corriere dello Sport-Stadio, baseball was a fundamental component in his life: first a fan in the stands of the Pirate Stadium, then a player in the legendary Parco Marecchia and then in Rimini 86, a company he founded together with a group of diehard friends. So a journalist of the beat and run on his own newspaper and some occasional collaborations with specialized magazines as well as radio commentator of the Pirates matches together with his friend and colleague Andrea Perari. In recent years, the managerial career has also begun, with the presidency (since 2014) of the Falcons Torre Pedrera. The passion has been handed down to his son Riccardo who plays pitcher and first base in the Falcons themselves.
