Cardinals tied the grand finale to 2 - 2

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Puerto La Cruz.- In games two and three of the Grand Final of the 2019-2020 season of the LVBP, Cardinals of Lara swallowed the ice of defeat. While everything was bitter, what made the team wrinkle the most was the performance of the top of the lineup: 21-1 in those bad times.

The manager Luis Ugueto took action on the matter. He moved the upper bats. He returned Yordanys Linares to the first turn, placed Ildemaro Vargas second and Osman Marval was the third, as he did a long time in the campaign. Result: between the three they went from 13-8, with four races towed. Thus the red birds re-tasted the honey of victory. They defeated Caribes de Anzoátegui 5-1, at the Alfonso “Chico” Carrasquel Stadium in Puerto La Cruz.

"The blows we were waiting for came out," said Vargas, who went 4-3, to Carlos Valmore Rodríguez, a journalist and commentator for IVC. “Both the team and I know that if I am in base it is a danger to the opponent. I'm grateful because things went out. ”

Cardinals, winning the fourth match, equals the Grand Final to two laurels per side and guarantees the return of hostilities to Antonio Herrera Gutierrez de Barquisimeto, to dispute the sixth commitment, this Sunday.

The only spots in the works of Mayckol Guaipe and Néstor Molina, openers of the Caribs and Cardinals, respectively, occurred in the second inning. Twilight made two races in that episode thanks to unstoppable producers of Linares and Vargas. Anzoátegui achieved his only hairline for a solitary home run by Balbino Fuenmayor.

“The pressure is always there, but we know we can win. I want to give my love to the fans, my respects for them and for all the staff. This is the Cardinals who wins, ”Vargas continued for the journalist Alexander Mendoza. “I take my hat off with Carlos Rivero. He is playing a great third base. ”

Linares linked 4-2, chartered and scored, and Marval 4-3, with a double, two towed and rubberized once. In fact, the designated hitter took advantage of the tribe's bullpen, in the seventh act, by towing Vargas with a double to the right field. Marval himself appeared in the ninth inning with a single that drove Linares. The last twilight race was courtesy of a shot by Luis Jiménez's right line; The sturdy shovel was made out on the second pad while trying to lengthen the connection.

Before Cardinals closed with a flourish, Caribes had the opportunity to at least match the engagement at the bottom of the eighth chapter. He filled the bases with one out, and the board down 3-1. The manager Ugueto invoked reliever Pedro Rodríguez, who came to face Niuman Romero, captain of Anzoátegui. The firefighter tamed him in a foul zone to the anteroom, as he did with Eduardo Sosa, an emerging hitter who entered Denis Phipps.

“I have always had that confidence. I like those situations with so much adrenaline. What you have to do in those cases is not to let the opponent feel comfortable, that you have to get defensive, ”said Rodriguez, who has seven finals played and two titles won, both with Caribs. “Thank God things went well. I was trying to throw a sinker to Niuman to get a rolling for doubleplay. Sometimes, in those shifts, batters seek to get big. ”

Caribbean only hit five hits. None of the team hitters were able to double bats. “We do not bat. The team did not flirt in a timely manner, ”said Freddy Gonzalez, banking coach of the Tribe. “We don't run with men on base. The exchange of Phipps for Sosa was looking for a hit. He was a left-handed hitter against a right pitcher. Sosa has done it before. ”

Molina was the winner, thanks to 6.0 innings and an accepted career. Guaipe lost, despite not making clean annotations in the 6.0 chapters he worked. Rodriguez, "El Amolador", was the man who was credited with the rescue.

“The key to the game was the same throughout the season. I didn't try to change anything, just trust me. I was mixing all the pitches without repeating any. Yojhan Quevedo knows the pitches I like, what I want and can throw, ”Molina said. "I left focused on mine, no matter how the series was."

This Friday will be the last game of the season at the Alfonso "Chico" Carrasquel of Puerto La Cruz. Whoever wins will go to Barquisimeto to the law of a victory to be titled champion.

“Caribes is a very difficult team at home. Thank God we could bring victory, ”said Ugueto. "We have secured another game at home and that, emotionally, is something that helps us a lot."