Star Jesse Castillo hit a home run in the top of the 10th inning to unlock a dramatic seventh game in the Final Series of the Mexican Pacific League and the Tomateros de Culiacán defeated the Naranjeros de Hermosillo 7-6 to become two-time champions. of the circuit. With their victory, they also won the right to represent Mexico in the 2021 Mazatlán Caribbean Series that starts on Sunday.
The Tomateros de Culiacán have won four championships in the last seven seasons, and now have 13 titles in their history in the Mexican Pacific League, only behind the Naranjeros de Hermosillo who have 16 crowns. Culiacán also won the 1996 Caribbean Series in the Dominican Republic and the 2002 in Venezuela.
Castillo was the great offensive figure for the Tomateros, hitting 3-2 with two home runs, three RBIs and three runs scored. Yoelkis Guibert also stood out in the attack of the champions, with four hits and two RBIs five times.
The Tomateros took the lead with a four-touchdown attack in the same second inning that Yoelkis Guibert capped with a two-run RBI single, and while the Naranjeros came close 4-2 on a Jasson Atondo sacrifice fly in the bottom of the second In the episode, Jesse Castillo hit his first home run of the game in the opening of the third inning to give Culiacán a 6-2 lead.
The Naranjeros did not lower their hands, and in the fifth inning they scored one more run when Jasson Atondo negotiated a walk, advanced to third with a double by José Cardona and took advantage of a roll by Cuban Yadiel Hernández to cut the disadvantage of the locals to three careers.
The drama came in the seventh episode: with one out, Norberto Obeso traded a walk, José Cardona hit a single and Isaac Paredes, a player for the Detroit Tigers in the Major Leagues, responded with a three-run homer to tie the game. meeting.
It wasn’t until the top of the 10th inning that Jesse Castillo hit his second home run of the game off star reliever Fernando Salas to give the Tomateros the lead and eventually the two-time Mexican Pacific League championship.
Panamanian Alberto Baldonado (1-0), usually closer for the Tomateros, took the victory with a sharp relief of two blank innings with three subscribers. Fernando Salas lost (0-1) after allowing five hits and the run of the difference in his two-round relay.
The champion team will debut this Sunday in the 2021 Mazatlán Caribbean Series facing Colombia, with less than 24 hours of rest.
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