cardinals of lara two-time champions of the lvbp 2019 2020

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Barquisimeto- Yordanys Linares has more than 2,200 shifts in professional baseball, including the chances he had in the National Series of Cuba. But, according to him, the best turn of his life occurred in the eighth inning of the seventh game of the final of the 2019-2020 season. He stood at the plate, with two outs, the board matched and against Lester Oliveros. Outcome:

Linares hit a ball between shortstop and third baseman. The ball went into the left garden. Josmar Cordero was towed and then scored Yonathan Mendoza for a shot error by Denis Phipps. The celebration of the moment became a barquisimetano festival, with the Antonio Herrera Gutiérrez Stadium fair center. Well, shortly after the unstoppable of the Cuban, Cardenales de Lara took the field to celebrate the victory over Caribes de Anzoátegui, 4-2, and especially the title of champion of the campaign.

The seventh game of the final, although it had the Linares hit as a turning point, ended with the sung punch that Ricardo Gómez gave Niuman Romero, captain of the aborigines. All the cardinals landed in jubilant flight on the grass, as they did last year at the University, and raised their arms after anointing themselves as the two-time champions of the circuit.

"This championship leaves us with a great teaching: that we can reinvent ourselves," Humberto Oropeza, president of Cardinals, told Efraín Zavarce, journalist and commentator for IVC. “We had certain parameters ready, defined equipment, and suddenly do it all again. We did a great research job, rediscovered players and reinvented ourselves. Many people thought that this would be a dull championship, but it was quite the opposite, it was a great championship. This series was one of the most exciting of which I have lived. The Caribes team is a team that does not surrender, a worthy rival, and you have to give it a lot of credit. ”

Oropeza has more years in the league than he can remember, that means that to surprise him you have to put on a great show and so did the Cardinals.

Before Linares raised the 17,971 people who filled the barquisimetano diamond grandstands with life, Anzoátegui had dominated forcefully. Gorkys Hernández and Gabriel Lino gave solitary home runs in the sixth inning, and kicked Williams Perez out of the game. The left-handed Felix Doubront, the initiator of the Caribs, had the game under control, but in the lower part of the chapter, the twilight men managed to hurt him with Carlos Rivero flips.

"Merit for all the boys who behaved like horses," manager Luis Ugueto managed to say to the IVC broadcast. “We all did the job. Management moved well from the beginning and here we are. Champion Cardinals of Lara ”.

Although Wilking Rodriguez won, lost Angel Nesbitt and saved Gomez, all the flashes went to Linares, who went 3-1 with a tow. His bat and glove helped Lara throughout the season, but especially in the playoffs.

"This is my third professional championship, but I had never experienced a hobby like the one I've seen here today," he said. “I looked for a hit to put the ball in play. I just looked for contact and thank God the hit came out. It was the best turn of my life. ”

Minutes before Linares stood as the great hero, and became the Most Valuable Player of the final, Josmar Cordero towed Deiner López, who entered as an emerging runner for Luis Jiménez, who achieves something special: his first title with Cardinals, the team he started with in the LVBP 19 seasons ago.

"They don't know the satisfaction I feel," he said, holding back his tears, to IVC. “We won the championship because we knew how to listen. My job here is to talk to the boys, besides playing. To scream at him from time to time, even Ugueto got half scaly, but we all knew how to listen and the results were given. ”

Cardinals joins Vaqueros de Montería (Colombia), Astronautas de Chiriquí (Panama) and Cangrejeros de Santurce (Puerto Rico) as the teams that are already targeted to the Caribbean Series of San Juan, which will begin on February 1. The champions of Mexico and the Dominican Republic remain to be defined.

“We will build the best possible team to represent Venezuela. The country has time that does not win a Caribbean title, ”said José“ Chato ”Yépez, sports manager of the flock. "Now we are Cardinals of Venezuela."

The Caribs were locked in the clubhouse to heal the pain of defeat. It is the third runner-up in franchise history, which has the same number of titles. He was so close to another pennant that he only lacked six outs to achieve it.

    FROM THE LAND

    Alexi Amarista was taken from the Caribes roster of Anzoátegui due to the right groin injury. Receiver Georvic Pérez was included on the payroll ... Manager Jackson Melián placed César Valera as shortstop and Willians Astudillo in the second at