Cuba took an important step towards one of the best finishes in the consolation round by beating Venezuela 2-0 in a close duel that featured ONLY one inning runs.
Roberto Hernández managed to bounce back from a first chapter that looked like an untimely end. The Sancti Spiritus man gave away three walks in the prologue of the match, allowing the Venezuelans to load the bases with just one out. However, the boy took the second and third by swiping to achieve a zero that would lull the South Americans around the world from that moment on.
So much so that Hernandez gave him the first hit in the third inning and then, in his final scene, the head of the fourth, they handed him the other, which he accepted. In four rounds, he granted the opening chapter’s transfers and he still didn’t hit out, but he was solid. His relief froze the opposing players as they couldn’t hit Leodan Reyes from Pinar del Rio and he reached an opponent, through balls, in three he completed the performance.
Kuba’s runs came in the second scene of the game when he added four of the uncatchable seven he gave in the game. This entry was opened by Pedro Pablo Revilla with a tubey through left field and dragged between right and middle field by a Carlos Monier hit, earning the triple category. Third, he scored with another biplane, this time with catcher and team captain Andrys Pérez.
Venezuela was almost all the time, six and one third, dependent on Wikelman Ramírez who, although charged with defeat, failed to control the Cuban offensive in this second act but exercised full control over the rival attackers. It was so much that he hit nine with a single walk and three hits outside of his disastrous second inning, in which he was twice kicked on home plate.
At the end of this edition, the challenges of South Africa against the Netherlands and Germany should be played in Puerto Rico, with a clear advantage for the Tulips and the Puerto Ricans in the predictions