Navigators of Magallanes and Leones of Caracas will celebrate their fourth duel of the season tonight.
For the third time, the eternal rivals will play to a full house at the Monumental “Simón Bolívar” stadium in La Rinconada, a setting where they have managed to win as hosts in the first two matches.
Today, before they sing the playball voice, the members of the hairy troop will have a special event to receive the ring that accredits them as monarchs of the 2022-23 campaign, in which they won their twenty-first title in the history of the LVBP .
The particular series this year is 2-1 in favor of the Leones, who in October won 7 runs to 6 on Thursday the 26th and by a 4-0 shutout on Tuesday the 31st, while Magallanes won by a score of 3 runs to 2 on Tuesday, November 15, in the “José Bernardo Pérez” park in Valencia.
Magallanes has failed to beat the Leones in Caracas in its last nine games, dating back to January 4, 2022.
Today’s Pitchers
The right-handers Luis Martínez against Jhoulys Chacín are announced as the starting pitchers for today’s match.
Martínez (2-2) will go to his sixth appearance of the campaign. In 26 innings he has allowed 14 earned runs for a 4.85 ERA with 13 walks and 14 strikeouts.
For the second time they will face Caracas. He lost the game on October 31 in this same setting after allowing one run, a home run by Romer Cuadrado, in four and two-thirds innings with three walks and four strikeouts.
Chacín (0-2, 6.75) is making his third start of the year. He has not faced Magallanes since January when he went 1-1 with six strikeouts and one walk in eleven round robin innings.
Today the Monumental exceeds 250 thousand fans
With the paper exhausted for the penultimate meeting between the eternal rivals in Caracas during the knockout round of the 2023-24 season, attendance in 16 games at the Monumental “Simón Bolívar” stadium in Rinconada exceeds a quarter of a million fans.
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An average of 14,737 people per match have attended the first 15 challenges at the new capital park, with maximum figures in the two challenges that Magallanes and Caracas played in the month of October: on the 26th, 32,188 people attended and on the 31 did so, a record number for the LVBP of 33,381 fans.
Since more than 32 thousand customers are expected today, attendance at three of the four matches between the eternal rivals will exceed the number of one hundred thousand fans.
After today’s game, Leones will host Navegantes once again at the Monumental, on December 20. In total, during the last month of 2023, Caracas will play twelve times there: four against Zulia (including a doubleheader), two against Bravos, two with Caribes, and one against Aragua, Lara, La Guaira.
The entry Eternal rivals face to face for the third time in the capital was first published in Líder en Deportes.
2023-11-29 11:30:00
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