Ricardo Paolini hit the game-winning three-run double in the sixth inning
© Lauro Bassani (PhotoBass)
Fortitudo scored 13. The impressive series of consecutive victories, between the regular season and the play-offs, brings Bologna up 2-0 in the championship final. In the middle of the battle therefore, against a San Marino team that will be asking a question tonight: how can you hit 14 hits, with the whole line-up scoring (and it was without Lino and Epifano), as many as 6 more than your opponents and lose by scoring just 4 points? Simple, leaving 12 men on base in the first six innings, with the peak of loaded pillows in the 2nd and especially the 6th when the game is decided.
The Italian pitchers are on the mountain and it shows. The batters hit 22 hits overall, with three doubles and two home runs. And honestly none of the six pitchers fielded by Frignani and Bindi convinced. Tiago Da Silva was baptized by a home run from Garcia in the first round, then San Marino had the patience to come back with the referees from Pieternella and Ferrini, but also to waste the impossible first on Crepaldi and then on Scotti.
From the 4th inning onwards it was a continuous back and forth: Bologna goes up 3-2 with Agretti who with full bases arrives safe just a moment before the double play and San Marino equalizes with Dudley Leonora’s fly ball. Bologna goes ahead (4-3) at the change of field with the base granted by Di Raffaele to Garcia with full cushions (the relief then closed with two strike-outs) and the titans still impact with the second solo-homer in 24 hours of Batista.
We are in the 6th inning and the game is decided. Because Bassani hits Celli and Ericson Leonora, then the intentional base to Angulo but recovers brilliantly, leaving Dudley Leonora guilty of a horrible turn and forcing Rosales to make a harmless rebounder. After the base in Gamberini and the valid bunt by Liberatore, he enters Mount Garbella who presents himself with a pick-off in the center field. The base in Seferina was almost forced and then he showed up in the box, the man of these finals: Ricardo Segundo Paolini who fired a double in the center, cleared the bases and set up the 2-0 which was worth a lot in the Fortitudo house. From Thursday the series moves to San Marino.
Carlo Ravegnani, born in Rimini on 31 January 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 Corriere dello Sport-Stadio for the Rimini area, baseball was a fundamental component in his life: at first a fan in the stands of the Stadio dei Pirati then a player in the legendary Parco Marecchia and then in Rimini 86, a club he founded together with a group of diehard friends. So journalist of the beat and run on his own magazine 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, his managerial career has also begun, with the presidency (since 2014) of the Falcons Torre Pedrera. The passion has been passed down to his son Riccardo who plays pitcher and first base for the same Falcons.
2023-09-04 23:11:06
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