The Tenerife Marlins Puerto Cruz were proclaimed champion of the Spanish Baseball League yesterday by beating Sant Boi 4-14 in the seventh inning in the second game of the day. As in great feats, the people from Porto suffered to savor the victory, also doing so resoundingly and closing the game with a home run from center fielder Lesther Galván. And it is that the islanders fell in the first game (7-10) and had to wait for the second game to win the championship.
The fans who came to the Néstor Pérez Suárez pitch experienced an infrequent first meeting. Richard Montiel’s men were below the score with a bulky 0-7. However, the brave spirit of the portuenses allowed them to equalize the duel (7-7) in the eighth inning. However, a home run from Sant Boi put an end to local aspirations (7-10).
The second game didn’t start off on the right foot either. The Catalan team took the lead with a 0-1 run by Monzón. But on this occasion, Tenerife Marlins Puerto’s reaction was immediate and in his batting turn he managed to score three runs and add one more in the second (1-4). Experience said that nothing was written before Sant Boi. The Catalans got back into the game in the fourth inning, adjusting the electronics until they reached 3-4. But the pulse did not shake the local offense and Wander Encarnación and Edison Valerio managed to score, with a home run each, making it 3-6. Richard Montiel joined the party scoring one more in this inning (3-7).
In the next entry, tranquility already arrived. Again Wander Encarnación hit the ball to the outside of the field Néstor Pérez Suárez and Edison Valerio joined again with another home run (3-11). At the end of this entry, the portuenses arrived with a 3-12 advantage. Despite the distance on the scoreboard, Sant Boi did not give up and pushed a little more when making the fourth inning of the game (4-12). In the seventh inning it was necessary to score two runs to be able to win by KO by having a difference of ten runs on the scoreboard. A milestone achieved by centerfield Lesther Galván with a home run that also boosted the career of Jesús Ustáriz.
Go for the triplet
The Tenerife Marlins Puerto Cruz achieves, in this way, its fourteenth league title, third in a row. Thus, in its 26-year history, more than half of them have done so by raising a national trophy. This trophy joins the one already achieved this season in Europe, where the island team was proclaimed champion of the Confederation Cup. After this league success, the club also aspires to the Copa del Rey, which will be held at the beginning of August in the Cordoba city of benameji. A competition that resists the team for several years now.
2023-07-16 06:43:25
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