Dramatically win 5-4 on a single by Leandro Castro
By: Antonio Saba
A Leandro Castro hit at the end of the eleventh inning produced the run that gave the Los Angeles a 5-4 win. Yaquis Over the Mayos, so that in that way the Obregonense team would stay with the series two games to one.
Castro’s unstoppable left the ninth of Navojoa and he hit it with two outs, a line to left field off Carlos Bustamante’s pitching.
Marco Guzmán started the episode with a single, moved to second with a 3-4 sacrifice bunt by Alonzo Harris and third on a 4-3 ground by Jonathan Aranda.
The scene was ready for Castro’s uncool, who had been dominated on four previous occasions, and he caught a fastball from Bustamante for the decisive hit, which tended to the Mayos and give to Obregon the dramatic victory.
The game was characterized by a pitching duel between the starters of both teams, the Brazilian André Rienzo for the Yaquis and the American John Anderson for the Mayos.
The two pitchers went without a decision. Rienzo threw seven innings and Anderson 6.2 thirds, with two runs allowed each.
The Puerto Rican managed to get fifteen outs in a row, retiring in order from the third to the sixth innings, until the first batter of the seventh opened him with a single, a hit to Jay Austin’s left, to break the chain of outs.
Rienzo allowed another single by Omar Renteria early in the game and then walked Moisés Gutiérrez into the second inning, the second in his seven-inning effort.
After Austin’s hit in the seventh, Rienzo got two outs, but Asael Sánchez homered, his seventh of the year, to tie the game 2-2.
TAKE FORWARD
The Yaquis They had scored a run for Anderson in the third round, produced by a sacrifly to the center-back by Leandro Castro and Sebastián Valle hit the tenth solo homer in the sixth for 2-0.
In the seventh, the Cajemense tribe broke the 2-2 with a run driven by Jonathan Aranda’s double and in the eighth Navojoa He was up 4-3 with RBI singles from Renteria and Austin.
Obregon he equalized in the closing with a single by Roberto López that made Valle score, to send the game to extra innings.
Rienzo completed his riding job with three strikeouts and in the seven innings he had 87 pitches, 53 in the strike zone.
They also threw for Obregon Mario Meza, Fernando Sánchez, Edwin Fierro, Víctor Arano, left-handed Edgar Osuna and winner Yair Lozoya (1-0).
Anderson, for his part, in the 6.2 innings also allowed three hits, with a pair of chocolates and three transfers. He was relieved by Fabián Anguamea, Esteban Haro, José Isidro Márquez and Carlos Bustamante (0-1), the backhand pitcher.
PG: Lozoya (3-0)
PP: Bustamante (0-1)
HR: Nav, A Sánchez (7),
Obr, Valle (10)
T: 4:09
GAMES FOR TODAY
Obregon in Guasave 7:30 PM
Mazatlan in Navojoa 4:00 PM
Hermosillo in Mexicali 8:30 PM
Culiacán in Jalisco 6:15 PM
Monterrey at Los Mochis 7:30 PM
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