from the newsroom
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday August 23, 2023, p. a10
Mexico fought an important battle by defeating Venezuela 3-1 in the Little League World Series and today will face another against Japan, 65 years after the ninth Mexican team won the first of three titles for the country in this U-12 tournament. , which since 1947 has been held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Represented in this edition of Williamsport by the Tijuana Municipal League team and accompanied in the feat by the presence of former Mexican star Adrián González at the Volunteer Stadium, the tricolor baseball players were victorious against the Little League of San Francisco from Venezuela.
The Tijuanenses saw their patience rewarded after receiving a run against during the third inning and responding with bases loaded, without being able to score in the next inning, until Santiago Hernández drove in the tying one in the fifth. In that same episode, Jonathan Juárez hit a hard ground ball to the legs of Venezuelan pitcher Luis Rangel to make it 2-1, and Maximiliano Leyva, who also did an excellent job on the mound, hit a powerful ground ball that prompted the third run.
The Tijuana team, led by Francisco Fiambres, who debuted with a loss against Japan last Friday and eliminated Canada on Monday, is two victories away from qualifying for the championship match.
It is the dream that Baja Californian baseball players maintain, to recapture the titles that their ancestors achieved in Williamsport in August, the first in 1957 and 1958 with the teams of the Monterrey Industrial League. These achievements promoted the practice of children’s baseball throughout the country, and later in 1997 with the Vaqueros de Linda Vista, from Guadalupe, Nuevo León, a triumph from which the phrase of encouragement for Mexican sports arose: Yes, we can!
This young Tri will then have revenge against the Japanese, represented by the Musashi Fuchu league, who accounted for the Santiago de Veraguas team of Panama 5-4.
2023-08-23 11:09:37
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