Algodoneros do not maintain an advantage against Charros

The absence of timely hitting occurred again last night for the Algodoneros of Unión Laguna, who took an early lead, but ended up losing with a score of 6 runs to 3, the first game of the series against the Charros de Jalisco, at the Pan American Stadium , from Zapopan, Jalisco.

THEY GET UP EARLY, BUT THEY FALL

The visitors took the lead during the same first inning: Jonathan Villar negotiated a walk and Allen Córdoba hit a single to center with which Villar reached third base and the Panamanian reached second base with the outfielder’s throw; Both scored with a single by Didi Gregorius, and he himself would score, with a hit by Nick Torres. That was all the damage allowed by the Charros starter, Dereck Rodríguez, who worked 5 innings of 5 hits; He left the duel without a decision.

Jalisco came closer on the board in the second episode, before the pitches of starter Omar Araujo, Anthony García and Maikel Serrano linked hits, then José Guadalupe Chávez came to produce the first two lines for the locals with a hit to left field. Dwight Smith Junior tied the game in the third inning, with his third home run of the season: the young Araujo left without a decision after pitching 2 and a third innings of 5 hits and 3 runs.

In the sixth inning, Jalisco took advantage with an unearned run against Jeff Ibarra’s deliveries: Vimael Machín reached second after an error by Jonathan Villar and scored with a double by Anthony García. Ibarra took the loss. In the seventh round the locals expanded their advantage against José Torres’ pitches, Luis Sardiñas hit a double and stole third base to score after an error by Gregorius at shortstop due to a hit by Vimael Machín, who reached to third base with a tubey from Anthony García and scored with a sacrifice from Greg Bird to make the score 3-6.

Laguna came close in the top of the eighth inning with Aaron Altherr’s second full-round hit, he hit it to Jonathan Aro, who was in charge of retiring the last two innings to score his first save of the season and secure the victory of the Jalisco team. The victory went to Domingo Acevedo in relief work.

Today the second of the series will be played, at 6:00 p.m. The probable starters are Matt Hall (2-0, 6.43 ERA) for the Charros and Joe Van Meter (1-1, 6.39 ERA) for Unión Laguna.