Cocodrilos de Matanzas knocked out Leones de Industriales 11-0 in seven innings, and put the semifinal of the 64th National Baseball Series 2-0 in their favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At their home stadium, Victoria de Gir\u00f3n, everything went right for the Matanzas team, while nothing went right for the Havanateam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The game resembled a training session for the home team, who were under no pressure, holding a 1-0 lead against an experienced opponent, but one with serious inaccuracies that are unacceptable at this level of baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Cocodrilos<\/em> decided the game with a six-run rally in the third inning, against the pitching of starter and loser Carlos Manuel Cuesta and relievers Giandy Guti\u00e9rrez and Julio Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Luis \u00c1ngel S\u00e1nchez led the Matanzas attack with 12 hits, going 2-for-3 with three RBIs, thus contributing to the eighth victory for left-hander Yamichel P\u00e9rez, who scattered seven hits over 6.0 innings without issuing a walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the Leones<\/em>: Terrible offensive production. In 16 innings, they have gone 15 consecutive innings without scoring, as their only run came from a solo home run by Yasiel Santoya in the first inning of the opening game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If manager Guillermo Carmona\u2019s team doesn\u2019t shake off this dangerous slump when they host their well-coached rival at the Coloso del Cerro stadium starting Wednesday, the series will never return to the mud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other semifinal playoff began with a 7-4 victory for the host and defending champion Le\u00f1adores de Las Tunas over the Cazadores de Artemisa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At Julio Antonio Mella Stadium, the Las Tunas team was losing 2-4 in the bottom of the fifth inning against left-hander Geonel Guti\u00e9rrez. But they rallied and put together a decisive four-run rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They got five consecutive hits, the last two being doubles by Henry Quintero and Luis Antonio P\u00e9rez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Starting pitcher Garc\u00e9s took charge of maintaining the lead, finding a second wind and better control of his commands to pitch 6.0 innings with 6 strikeouts, allowing four hits and earning his 13th win of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keniel Ferraz recorded his seventh save. The two teams will play the second game on Tuesday at the same venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cocodrilos de Matanzas knocked out Leones de Industriales 11-0 in seven innings, and put the semifinal of the 64th National Baseball Series 2-0 in their favor. At their home stadium,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[42],"class_list":["post-9908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"authors":[{"term_id":42,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"radio-habana-cuba","display_name":"Radio Habana Cuba","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9910,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions\/9910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9908"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}