Diablos Rojos sweep champions Pericos in inaugural series

Mexico City. Diablos Rojos started the 2024 season with live fire. After the sweep that he applied in the pair of friendlies to the New York Yankees, in the Mexican Baseball League he took out the brooms to win three games at the start of this campaign none other than the champions Pericos de Puebla, who defeated yesterday Saturday 8-5, with a tie in the ninth inning and the comeback in the tenth.

With a home run by Ramón Flores in the ninth inning, the Scarlets (3-0) tied the game and with a three-run rally in the tenth, they took an advantage with which they ended up beating the Pericos (0-3), to take the inaugural series by sweep at the Hermanos Serdán Stadium.

The red artillery had a great day in which they first came from behind to tie and then completed the turnaround, thanks to a great afternoon of pitching, which only had one bad inning (third), where they allowed five runs, and after that they turned off completely to the Pericos.

With the game 5-4 in favor of the Pueblans, Ramón Flores blew the wall in the ninth to tie things, so the duel went to the tenth inning.

Already in that round, the red bats hit a single (José Rondón), a double (Japhet Amador) and a single by José Marmolejos to go up 7-5.

A hit by Xavier Fernández later sent the plate to 8-5. With that attack, the Japanese Tomohiro Anraku got the last three outs of the game, completing a great day of pitching, in which five relief pitchers worked 7.1 scoreless innings, with only one hit in that period.