The first match of the Italian Baseball Week played on the Codogno diamond between the Italian national team and the US selection of the Globetrotters ends with a “no contest” on 3 to 3. Young Italians play in an extremely aggressive way, they fight much more than the opponents (13 valid against only 3 of the Americans) but do not capitalize. On the other hand, the stars and stripes globetrotters are definitely very cynical and manage to even take the lead 3-0 thanks to a spectacular 2-point Fuoricampo of Yongblood made in the second recovery and by a race at Bloat’s house that exploits the only mistake made by the Italian defense in the fourth recovery. Azzurri who erase the zero in the box of the points halfway through the race with a champion of Lorenzo Morresi, after Lasaracina had in turn touched the Homer forcing the left outside to an outlet against the net. The equal of Italy arrives in the lower part of the seventh recovery with Martini in second base with a nice double and Carrera who takes him home with a single. Tomorrow evening at 20.30 the highly anticipated European challenge under the stars between the Italy of the manager Francisco Cervelli and the national team of the Czech Republic.
