Race one LONGBRIDGE-SAN MARINO 3-9 race two scheduled for today at 13 | Baseball craze
Saturday in Bologna ends with a victory and a postponement due to rain. Race 1 ends 9-3 while in race 2, after the start, bad weather won. The second challenge has been rescheduled for tomorrow, Sunday 10, at 1pm.
In the first match offered, the power in the box of the Italian Champions prevailed. Five home runs at the “Falchi” for Doriano Bindi’s troop: two for Gabriel Lino and Nathanael Batista, one for Jesus Ustariz.
The Longbridge, leading 1-0 to the first, was then able to recover up to 3-3 to the 5th before giving up in the second half of the match. The winner is Quattrini, the salvation of three innings is by a perfect Renè Mazzocchi.
It was said of the start in fits and starts, in terms of weather and also in the field. The Longbridge goes straight to 1st thanks to a double from Marchi, a single from Moronta Rodriguez and also valid from Gamberini (0-1), with the innings saved by the double play on Borghi’s rebound.
At the change of field the first man is Lino, who immediately equalizes with a great blow to the left. He is home run for the catcher, scoring 1-1.
In the lower part of the same second half the Longbridge does not score despite a double and a single, while on the 3rd there are no jolts on both sides.
At the 4th and 5th the Titans try to shake up the game with the solo-homers of Ustariz and Batista (3-1), but at the 5th the home team’s draw on Quattrini after the suspension due to rain. With the bases full, to bring home the two points is a single to the left of Rondelli (3-3).
The reaction, however, is there and comes immediately, with 6 points between the 6th and 8th inning that definitively close the accounts. At 6th the scores are brought home by the double of Lino (4-3, Angulo scores) and Leonora (5-3, sacrifice sprint). At the 7th another sprint, this time by Ferrini (6-3). At the 8th the clubs thunder with the two home runs by Lino (8-3) and Batista (9-3).
Mazzocchi meanwhile is perfect, not conceding arrivals based on the opponents in his three rounds and eliminates 7 of the 9 encountered at the plate.
The only match of the day ends 9-3. Race 2 Sunday at 1pm.
LONGBRIDGE BOLOGNA – SAN MARINO BASEBALL 3-9
SAN MARINO: Ferrini 3b (0/4), Angulo 2b (2/5), Celli ec (1/5), Lino r (3/4), Ustariz 1b (2/4), Leonora dh (0/3), Batista ed (2/4), Epifano ss (1/3), Di Fabio es (0/2).
LONGBRIDGE: Marchi ss / 2b (1/3), Rondelli ec (1/4), Moronta Rodriguez (Bacci 0/1) 2b (1/3), Gamberini dh (1/4), Borghi 1b (1/4), Ferini es (1/4), Canuti ed / ss (2/3), Tassoni r (1/4), Ferri 3b (0/2).
SAN MARINO: 010 112 130 = 9 bv 11 and 0
LONGBRIDGE: 100 020 000 = 3 bv 9 and 1
LAUNCHERS: Lu. Di Raffaele (i) rl 3, bvc 5, bb 0, so 2, pgl 1; Quattrini (W) rl 3, bvc 4, bb 1, so 4, pgl 2; Mazzocchi (S) rl 3, bvc 0, bb 0, so 7, pgl 0; Bortolotti (L) rl 5, bvc 3, bb 2, so 4, pgl 3; Campanella (r) rl 4, bvc 8, bb 0, so 2, pgl 5.
NOTE: home runs by Lino (1p. to the 2nd and 2p. to the 8th), Ustariz (1p. to the 4th) and Batista (1p. to the 5th and 1p. to the 8th); doubles by Angulo, Lino, Marchi and Ferini.