HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 3 (acn) Cuban national team, which recently played 21 games in the Can-Am Baseball League, will try to tie the match it began last Sunday against the US college squad in North Carolina.
The main reason for that initial defeat of the squad managed by Roger Machado was, once again, the poor offensive performance, as they only batted three hits in the fourth inning to momentarily equalize 2-2 the score.
In that frame, SS Raul Gonzalez hit a solo homer and after a double by catcher Yosvani Alarcon, DH Yordanis Samon hit an RBI-single and according to the website of the contest, from there on, the young American pitching staff managed to retire 18 Cuban players in a row.
The so-called Schiller Rule was applied in the tenth inning with the game tied 2-2 and Cuba scored twice without batting hits, mainly thanks to a wild-pitch and a sacrifice-fly.
But in the bottom of the tenth, Americans managed to score three runs with two singles, including a walk-off hit off Frank Luis Medina.
Cuba´s starting pitcher today could be right-hander Alain Sanchez.
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