CHERRY EXPLOSION | The Century of Torreón

-A 5-run attack in the eighth inning, with home runs by Jonathan Villar, Aaron Altherr and Daniel Palka, allowed the Algodoneros del Unión Laguna to turn the score around last night to take the victory at the sound of 9 for 5 against the Red Devils of Mexico, to match the series that is played at the Estadio de la Revolución.

When the Devils had taken a heartbreaking turn on the scoreboard in the opening of the eighth roll, the Guinda offense responded in the closing with three homers, two of them “back to back”, to achieve a victory against the team with the best record in the league. The Algodoneros improved their record to 27 wins and 20 losses, while the Luciferes fell to 37 wins and 9 losses, suffering only their fifth loss as a visitor this season.

AGAINST THE CURRENT

The visitor took the lead from the very first inning and then began the threat of taking the series, getting a run against the pitches of New Yorker Joe Van Meter, who had a very hard job. Venezuelan José Pirela led the attack with a single to left field, advanced to second with a grounder by Robinson Canó and scored the run “of the pool” with an unstoppable hit by José Marmolejos, to activate the scoreboard.

But Unión Laguna responded in the second inning and attacked starter Erick Leal with three scores: Allen Córdoba and Carlos Franco had hits in the infield and the next turn, Julián León touched the ball, Leal threw badly to third base and Córdoba took advantage the pitcher’s error to score the tying run. With runners on the corners, Albert Lara hit unstoppable to center field to drive in Carlos Franco with the lead and Julián Escobedo produced the third score with a single to left field to make the score 1 – 3.

At the top of the third inning, Diasbel Arias and Carlos Sepúlveda combined doubles to make the second run for the Scarlets. But in the bottom half, Julián Escobedo returned Laguna’s lead to two with a single to left field that sent Allen Córdoba to the pentagon. Then came 4 blank innings supported in good form by the relief pitching, until the eighth inning arrived. With runners on first and second base, Robinson Canó hit a double throughout center field that cleared the mats and tied the game at 4 runs, Canó advanced to third base with the throw to the pentagon and the next inning, he scored to turn it around to the board with a single to left field by José Marmolejos that put the match 5 – 4 in favor of the visitor.

CHERRY PUMPS

In the lower part of the eighth roll the cherry wood exploded. Before Jimmy Yacabonis’ deliveries, Albert Lara reached base with a single to right and from first base, he reached the pentagon with the tie with a double to right center field by Julián Escobedo, who had a night of 3 hits and two RBIs. The next inning, Jonathan Villar hit his second home run of the season in center field, turning the game around in favor of Laguna 5-7. Then, Aaron Altherr disappeared the ball through left field to reach 7 sticks back. entire campaign and behind him, Daniel Palka did the same, hitting a shot that went over the center field fence so that, with back-to-back home runs, Unión Laguna took the lead on the scoreboard 9 runs to 5. Yacabonis charged with his first setback of the season.

CONCLUSION

In the top of the ninth inning, Thomas McIlraith ended up closing the curtain after he had retired the last two thirds of the eighth inning, thus scoring his third win of the campaign and achieving the victory for the Cottoneros to tie the series . This Monday the last and final match of the series will be played at 7:30 p.m. at the Estadio de la Revolución. For the Scarlet team, Ronnie Williams (1 – 0, 5.13 ERA) would go up to the center of the diamond, while Oklahoma’s Braden Webb (4 – 4, 4.28 ERA) will start for Unión Laguna.