Caracas and Barquisimeto house the semifinals

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The semi-final series of the 2019-20 professional baseball season begin on Sunday in Caracas and Barquisimeto.

Sharks of La Guaira will receive at the University City park the winner of the meeting to define the fourth place or wild card between Magallanes and Caribes, scheduled to be played last night in the city of Puerto La Cruz, while in the stadium “Antonio Herrera Gutiérrez ”From Barquisimeto, Águilas del Zulia will visit Cardenales de Lara.

The four competitors in this second stage of the postseason may make a substitution in their payrolls, by means of a raffle scheduled to be held at the conclusion of the wildcard game.

La Guaira advanced to the semifinals after dispatching the Lions of Caracas in six games.

The club from Lima was the leader in the collective average of the tie with .302 (from 1494-451), in which the great capacity of the bullpen stands out in its pitching.

Although no club of those that remain in the postseason has formalized its opening rotation for this instance, in the case of Sharks it is estimated that former bigleguer Guillermo Moscoso, reinforcement of the Aragua Tigers, should be the starter of the first meeting.

Zulia and Lara have not had a direct postseason showdown since the Eagles won the 2016-17 final in five games. The right Ramón García must start on the hill by visitors, while Williams Pérez is confirmed by the locals.