After an interruption of nearly an hour due to lighting problems at the Julio Antonio Mella stadium, the local offense heated up in the last third of the game and Las Tunas surpassed 7×2 to industrial in the opening of the decisive playoff of the 62 National Baseball Series.
The Lumberjacks threatened to score in the first two episodes, but it was not until the third that they managed to break the cellophane with a run batted in by fielders choice over a grounding connection.
However, the visit responded at the height of the fifth chapter with two stripes with prominence for Jorge Alomá, who drove in the first with a single and scored the rest thanks to an error.
The minimal advantage did not last long, because in the lower part of that inning a triple of Héctor Castillo was in charge of returning parity To the blackboard.
After that they made an act of presence stadium lighting problemsthere was a long wait, and after a while to renew the actions -already in the seventh- Las Tunas scored lapidary runs: one for a hit by Roberto Baldoquín, and the other two, for a tubey by Denis Peña.
to the next entry, the veterans Danel Castro and Yosvani Alarcón put two more nails (the final ones) to the blue coffin.
It is striking that despite having made use of almost all its main pitchers, Industriales could not prevent the Las Tunas attack from signing 13 undisputed, three of them by the aforementioned Alarcón.
The match was won by reliever Rodolfo Díaz (4.2 innings without allowing liberties) and lost by his counterpart Frank Herrera.
Tomorrow will be played on the same stage the second meeting of the dual meet.
As previously reported, former major leaguer yasmany tomasa key player in the line up of the Cubans, could not make the trip to the so-called Balcón del Oriente Cubano due to food poisoning.
It is worth remembering that in the semifinal played recently by Las Tunas against Matanzas, in the Yumurino Victoria de Girón stadium there was a power failure that forced the stoppage of the crashalthough the situation did not extend as much as the one experienced tonight at the Julio Antonio Mella.
