The Mexicans beat the Nicaraguans three runs to one the day before, a game that was decided at the end in the last inning, when young Carlos Cruz hit a three-run home run to end the challenge, when they were trailing by one score.
The Dominican Republic, for its part, was superior to Brazil in their first match, knocking them out 10-0 in five innings to open the tournament with a victory.
Milfree Figueroa early became the hero of the day by going 2-for-2 with three runs scored, two RBIs and one walk received.
Then the rain prevented the competition day from being completed.
Only Cuba, whose technical director is Vladimir Vargas, began its game against Puerto Rico and won two to zero, with a stellar performance by the starting pitcher, Alexandro Martínez, who dominated the upper part of the opening chapter, in which he scored two strikeouts.
The two runs made were achieved without hitting hits.
Also pending were the games between Ecuador and the United States, Argentina against Venezuela and the debut of the host Panama facing Colombia, the latter in the Rod Carew state of this capital.
The fate of these games will be known in the coming days, while the day for this Monday was brought forward to 08:30 local time, when Puerto Rico receives Argentina, two hours later the United States faces Nicaragua and in the afternoon, Cuba closes against the Dominican Republic.
On the other hand, Ecuador will also face Colombia; Venezuela against Brazil and in the evening the hosts of Panama will debut in the tournament by visiting Mexico.
This fight will put three tickets to the 2025 World Cup in dispute, the winners of the cross-semifinals on the 25th will access them and the other will come from the duel between the losers of those matches.
The Panamanians have already secured their participation in the World Cup and, if they reach the podium, they will give up their place for that event to the fourth-place finisher.
In this tournament Cuba appears in group B, along with Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, in that same order.
In key A are the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and the hosts.
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