Damn!, Unión Laguna falls at the Revolution Stadium

Trevor Bauer received his biggest damage of the season when pitching as a visitor, but he still delivered a quality start to lead the Diablos Rojos del México to beat the Algodoneros del Unión Laguna last night with a score of 7 runs to 4, in the opening of the series that is played at the Estadio de la Revolución, where yesterday there was a full crowd in the stands.

The Guindas had the opportunity to at least tie the score in the eighth inning, but fell short in their attack against the Scarletta relief team; With this defeat, Unión Laguna put its record at 26 wins and 20 losses, while the Devils achieved their 37th victory, by just 8 defeats.

CASTELLANI, CASTIGADO

The starting pitching returned to its old ways, as now the Italian-American Ryan Castellani was punished early in the game, receiving 3 runs during the top of the same first inning. The Venezuelan Franklin Barreto gave the voice of attack with a tremendous triple throughout the center field, to immediately score the run “of the pool”, driven by a single from the Dominican Robinson Canó, to advance the visitors, when the fans from La Laguna were barely there. settling into their seats.

The Scarlet attack continued with a double by the fiery José Marmolejos to place runners on second and third base, although Castellani seemed to get out of the problem by dominating his next two rivals, the Venezuelan José Rondón responded with a tubey through the center field, to lead his two colleagues towards the register. Thus, before making a single pitch, the Californian Trevor Bauer already had a good advantage, thanks to his teammates, and although in three previous starts as a visitor he had not received an earned run, the Guindas hitters did not take him into consideration and scored the first line. on the spikes of Edgar Robles, who negotiated a walk in just four pitches, he stole second base and with a couple of outs, Aaron Altherr responded with a hit line to center field, to take the “Rabbit” to the register.

REBELLION ATTEMPT

The reigning champions of the North Zone returned to the attack during the closing of the third chapter, when the Dominican Jonathan Villar fired an unstoppable shot towards center field, a single that with his risky style of play, the former major leaguer converted into a double, and then scored thanks to a hit by Nick Torres, who hit a short line drive to the center field, all with two outs, to make the game 3 for 2.

However, the visitors recovered those two scores and put ground in the middle again when the opening of the fourth inning was played, still with Castellani in the center of the diamond, they scored twice without needing to hit a single hit. Gamboa received a walk, Barreto was hit and both advanced 90 feet on a wild pitch from Castellani, with a hit by Canó towards second base that Allen Córdoba could not control, Gamboa scored, while José Marmolejos drove in the fifth scarlet run with a sacrifice fly to the left field to make the score 5 to 2.

SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR

Trevor Bauer left the game after pitching 6 complete innings, allowing 5 hits and 2 runs scored, walking 2 and striking out 6 to earn his seventh victory of the season, leaving his ERA at 1.70. The Guindas tightened the match again in the bottom of the eighth roll, before the deliveries of the Japanese Tomohiro Anraku, “the Fantasma” Villar received a walk and then, the German-American Aaron Altherr hit his sixth home run of the campaign to the opposite side to reach 3 runs produced in the night and put the score at 5 for 4.

But the Devils did not give rise to drama and added two more in the ninth, against the pitches of Jake Jewell, Japhet Amador hit the center and Carlos Sepúlveda entered for him to run the bases, José Rondón received a walk and Ramón Flores singled to the central to send the register to Sepúlveda. Afterwards, José Briceño fouled out a fly ball that Adrián Tovalín caught on the first base side, Rondón advanced to the third mat on a step-and-run and scored on an error by Jonathan Villar when he did not catch Tovalín’s throw.

With a three-run lead, Jake Sánchez took the mound for the Scarlets in the bottom of the ninth inning to retire him in order and record his eleventh save of the year. The loss fell to Ryan Castellani after 3 innings of 6 hits and 5 runs. This Sunday the second match of the series will be played at 7:00 p.m. at the Estadio de la Revolución. Venezuelan Erick Leal (4 – 0, 3.05 ERA) will start for the Scarlet team, while New Yorker Joe Van Meter (2 – 2, 6.16 ERA) will pitch for Unión Laguna.