HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 23 (acn) The current monarch Pinar del Río suffered a hard blow in the bloody struggle for accessing to Cuban baseball playoffs when defeated twice on Sunday by Isla de la Juventud, and now appears at two games of the qualifying zone.
The Pirates proved again being rivals of great consideration when playing as local when beating the existing champions of the Caribbean Series in the first game 4-1 with the starter Ulfrido García allowing just three hits and one earned run in six innings and Danny Aguilera earned his tenth save of the s eason, with few RBIs by first baseman Luis Felipe Rivera for the cause of the winners.
Jorge Luis Barcelán was the hero of the second match, a 1-0 win, due to his decisive RBI in the tenth inning despite the excellent performances of the starter Javier Vázquez and reliever Reimundo Vázquez.
After these results, Pinar del Río experienced a significant drop in the standings by falling to sixth seat, while Isla de la Juventud now appears third at the expense of Industriales which also suffered two defeats against Artemisa.
The Artemisa Hunters won as visitors with scores of 3-2 and 5-3 in a dreamed day for the veteran closer Jose Angel Garcia, who scored two saves to reach 18 and establish himself as the undisputed leader of the season.
In turn, Granma is now at just one game from the top of the standings by knocking out 16-5 the leader Matanzas, thanks to strong offensive of 19 hits that included homers by Roel Santos , Guillermo Aviles, Alfredo Despaigne and Yordanis Samon.
Finally , Ciego de Ávila lost ground after being defeated 11-3 by Holguin, with the sixth win of the season for the ace Norge Luis Ruiz and ofensive highlight for Reutilio Hurtado and Oscar del Rosario, with one home run per capita in the match.
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