The first weekend of the current season of the Major League Baseball (MLB), reported good results for the Cubans involved in this competition, highlighting Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Randy Arozarena, Aroldis Chapman and Vladimir Gutierrez.
One who has had one of the best starts this season is Lourdes Gurriel Jr., who with three home runs to his name and 10 RBIs, he is entrenched in positions with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
This Monday, the Major League organization announced to the first winners of the 2024 Player of the Week awardamong whom is the youngest of the Gourriels, along with the Dominican, a militant of New York YankeesJuan Soto.
According to statistics, The native of Sancti Spíritus hit for an average of .471 in 17 official at-bats.
Also, he achieved an on-base percentage (OBP) of .526 and a slugging percentage (SLG) of 1.118, which translates into an OPS of 1.644, as well as an OPS+ of 315 and 19 total bases. To these statistics he added three home runs, six runs scored and ten RBIs, a department in which he is the leader in MLB to start the year, according to him. ESPN.
For its part, Arozarena hit, this Sunday, his second home run of the 2024 season. The man from Pinar del Río made the ball disappear before a fastball (95.3 MPH) from Kevin Gausman.
The hit left its wood at 107m1 MPH and traveled 384 feet down the opposite wing. It was his only hit in three legal at-bats, and his team, the Tampa Bay Rays, fell 9-2 to the Toronto Blue Jays at Tropicana Field.
A special point was deserved by the game in which two Cubans faced each other: Aroldis Chapman against Vladimir Gutiérrez.
The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Marlins 9-7 in ten innings at Ioan Depot Park in Miamiin order to complete the sweep (4-0).
In that match, the Pittsburgh star, Chapman, who came to pitch in the eighth inning with a minimal lead on the scoreboard (7-6), achieved a launch of 101.2 MPH.
“He is the only pitcher since 2008 (pitch tracking era) with at least one pitch of 100 MPH or more for 15 consecutive seasons,” said independent journalist Francys Romero.
For his part, Gutiérrez’s debut was a success with his Marlins team. In four innings of work he allowed three runs on a home run by Rowdy Tellez, got three hits, struck out four, walked a couple and had no decision in the game. He scored a high of 94.9 with his fastball.
