Matanzas-Industriales: The Main Clash in Cuban Baseball

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 12 (acn) The leader Matanzas will visit today this city to face Industriales, the most attractive match of Cuban baseball championship in the continuation of the second round.

The current national runners up recently defeated a couple of times Holguin and command comfortably the standings with 36 wins and 15 losses, including five wins in six games during the current instance of the contest.
Included in the vanguard group but at seven games of its rivals turn, Industriales has record of 29-22 and shares the third seat with the current monarchs of Pinar del Río, after losing twice against them.

The latter traveled a long way to the northeast of the country to rival with the Holguin Hounds, team that has only won once and appears last with a negative balance of 24- 27.

In turn , Granma (31-20) will try to consolidate its runner up condition when receiving the visit of the Artemisa Hunters (28-23), the only squad that managed to sweep in the latest subseries with three wins in a row against the diminished team of the Isle of Youth (27-24).

After losing the first six games of the second round, the latter will try to achieve a positive balance against a tough opponent as the Ciego de Ávila Tigers (28-23) as home club.

The elite phase of the 54th Cuban baseball championship will run until March 19, with a stop from January 22 to February 13 for the participation of Pinar del Rio in the Caribbean Series in San Juan, Puerto Rico.