Granma beat Camagüey 9-1, which is now in third place in the standings.
Havana, March 31.- The Ciego de Ávila Tigers dealt today their 15th blow in 17 appearances, becoming more established in the first place and continuing their safe path to the postseason of the LXIII National Baseball Series.
A home run with full pads by Alexis Miguel Varona could not prevent Dany Miranda's cats from beating his Gallos de Sancti Spiritus 11-6 and sweeping them in the five challenges played this week.
Raúl González (4-3) hit a rocket to the left wing in the sixth inning to drive in a couple of runs of the three he scored in the challenge and give his troops an advantage that they did not lose again in the rest of the match.
Héctor Labrada also stood out with the wood with two tubeyes and Rubén Valdés with a couple of singles, both with two RBIs per capita.
Yomil González signed a 3.2 inning save with only one run allowed and took the credit, while José Eduardo Santos lost it in a start where he worked 6.1 innings and was scored six times, half of them due to errors.
The Vegueros of Pinar del Río defeated Santiago de Cuba 19-7 at the Capitán San Luis stadium to win the particular fight and remain three games ahead of the place of honor.
Against five rival pitchers, the Westerners deployed an attack of 18 hits, six of them against the defeated Wilber Reyna, who went home with seven runs allowed in 2.2 innings of work.
Luis Pablo Acosta (5-4) and Jorge Yoan Rojas (3-3) stole the show by each hitting a pair of doubles and a home run and sharing eight RBIs equally.
Substitute Mario Sánchez (1-1) and Alexei Ramírez (4-1) also disappeared the ball over the mats, the latter with two runners on base.
Branlis Rodríguez supported five runs in 5.2 innings, but thanks to his team's offense he scored his first success of the season.
For the Easterners, Euclides Pérez (4-2) hit a home run with a teammate on board.
At the Mártires de Barbados stadium, in Bayamo, the Alazanes, from Granma, did not believe in José Ramón Rodríguez and beat the Camagüeyan Toros 9-1 to drop them to third place in the standings.
Leandro Martínez achieved his second victory with a great work of eight innings where only one run was scored and he left four batters with the rifle on their shoulders.
Alexquemer Sánchez took the ball out of the park for the sixth time, Osvaldo Abreu had a perfect afternoon (4-4) with three RBIs and Darián Palma went 3-for-5 with four RBIs.
Pepe Rodríguez could not get past the fourth section and went home with five clean lines and the defeat of the challenge.
Industriales did their homework at the Nelson Fernández, in San José de Las Lajas, and beat the Hurricanes, from Mayabeque, 7-2, to win the particular series and catch up with the Toros in the standings.
Jorge Enrique Alomá (5-1) hit a triple that drove in two runners, the same amount driven by Roberto Acevedo (3-1) and Yasiel Santoya (3-1).
The success went to Maikel Taylor's record (his third of the campaign), despite allowing eight hits and giving away six walks in five innings of work.
José Ignacio Bermúdez could not get past the second inning and suffered the setback by allowing six runs, two of them unearned.
In other matches, Matanzas defeated Villa Clara 8-3, with Andrys Pérez standing out with a home run and three RBIs, Guantánamo defeated Holguín 4-3, and Cienfuegos tipped the balance of the duel against Artemisa by beating them 9-2. (ACN) (Photo: Internet)
