Thanks to a bombastic victory for 14-3 Fortitudo baseball wins in the seventh inning for manifest superiority the semi-final of the Italian Cup against Parma, accessing the final to be held this afternoon at 15 on the diamond of “Gianni Falchi” and mathematically winning the ticket for the Cup of Champions 2023because in the other semifinal San Marino beat Grosseto 6-1.
Today at 3 pm it will therefore be possible to attend the last official match of the season for UnipolSai, and after the small rematch against Parma taken in the semifinals, it would be extremely positive to end with a victory, lifting the Italian Cup, but beating San Marino will not be easy .
Semifinal 2 – Bologna-Parma 14-3
But let’s go back to last night’s race, to describe what happened. A good evening in the attack phase was accompanied by the excellent performance on the mound of Filippo Crepaldi, a winning pitcher who pitched for 6.1 innings conceding three points, six hits and two bases, then replaced in a moment of decline during the seventh inning by Alex Bassani who closed the game perfectly.
The game is released in the upper part of the second inning, when Fortitudo definitively directs the game by scoring 8 points. With Martini out, the hits of Agretti and Grimaudo arrive, and Dobboletta is eliminated, however, making them advance. With one out from the end of the inning, however, they begin to enter valid on valid: the singles of Liberatore and Paolini are followed by the two doubles of Lampe and Josephina, to continue with the single of Taveras that starts the round again. Martini this time beats a double, Agretti again valid and Grimaudo advances on a defensive error, then the change of Parma pitcher, arrived late anyway, concludes the innings with the elimination of Dobboletta, but now it is 8-0.
Parma immediately tries to recover, but is limited to a home run by Mineo, who fixes the result at 8-1. Then it is again Fortitudo to grind the game, scoring 3 times in the fourth, once in the fifth and two in the sixth inning, arriving at the result of 14-1 for L’Aquila. In the seventh inning a drop by Crepaldi grants the two points of the final 14-3.
The numbers speak for themselves, if everything went well on the UnipolSai mound, the attack was the decisive weapon: in addition to the two home runs by Gonzales Taveras (5th) and Lampe (6th), Fortitudo as a team he beat 5 doubles within the 17 valid scored.
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | LOB |
HE WAS | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 17 | 1 | 8 |
PAR | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
