Tension with every throw o swing set; contained breathing, emotions that are sometimes contained that turn into frustration in other heroism. This is how the excellent ball game between Granma and Industriales was experienced, in which the Alazanes crowned their triumphant participation in the semi-finals of the 60th National Series.
The Granmenses hung on two arms to support the close but highly anticipated 2-1 win. One of them was again that of Yara’s cannon, Lázaro Blanco, who, armed with all his equanimity, knew how to get out of a first chapter of two tickets and two hits, tolerating the only one of the Blues, because from there he engages in 107 missions and leads his cavalry with six strikeouts, without hitting other opponents and taking another four hits apart.
His teammates reacted and equaled the shock in the same first chapter, after the uncontrolled 12 shipments of starter Maykel Taylor, ten of them balls, and the driving force of a foal that has always been ‘wild’ in this kind of encounter, Carlos Benítez, author , next to the other annotation, after hitting tubey in the third and registering with another biangular, that of Iván Prieto, which is in the play out he drove six of his team’s 16. Almost in three, one was towed by himself.
The other arm? It wasn’t that of a pitcher, but that of rightfielder Alexquemer Sánchez, responsible for two outs keys to success. In the seventh, with Juan A. Torriente in the first (for his jit thousand in national heats) and two outs, Andrés Hernández released a cloud breaker that settled in the top part of the fence. The talented batter was betrayed by the excitement of what appeared to be a decisive home run, and he barely ran for the first, looking at what would be a heroic act, but when he bumped into the fence and wanted to win another base, Sánchez fired. a “missile” to second base and convicted him, without Torriente arriving a home, something that is also contradictory, as it must have done with a connection between those characteristics.
A chapter later, Lisbán Correa hit a line on Sánchez’s pasture, coming into that awkward corner of the field. The man from the capital wanted to reach the middleman, but again the chestnut broke the intrepidity of his opponents.
Blanco and Sánchez, and those details hidden in every sport, created through the adrenaline rush, concentration, observation and calculations of what each action represents at every moment, were the keys to this crucial clash. In baseball they are even more damaging, since in more than two and a half hours of play, every madness takes its toll, because in a challenge like yesterday, for example, there are no second chances.
If there’s a delivery like the one we saw in this game, there’s no consolation to whoever falls, but the capital’s players and fans have nothing to blame, not even those tactical mistakes. Their pitching, which came as the weak point, took them to the fifth game; in the attack they always looked for one more and in the preservation of the field they shone. So did Granma, who left his attack average of 314 for his pitchers to decide, with seasoned director Carlos Martí breaking Avilés-Despaigne’s halter in pursuit of Carlos Benítez’s bat, and he was right.
It was two hours and 51 minutes in which the players let us be Leones and other Alazanes for a while. Duels like this one, you wish they never ended. Yes, it was worthy of a final where only one can win, and Granma was victorious, because the ball that wins the least, and for that you need the clarity of Blanco pitching and a defense that the outs achieved by Alexquemer Sánchez.
RESULTS OF THE DAY
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Jose Antonio Huelga |
C. |
H. |
E. |
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IND |
100,000,000 |
1 |
8 |
0 |
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GAME |
101000000 |
2 |
6 |
1 |
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G: L. Blank (2-0). Question: P. Hernández (0-2). Sv: C. Santana. |
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