Tuesday night on the Caribbean Sequence, the Indios de Mayagüez (Puerto Rico) flipped the script from Monday’s loss to Cardenales de Lara (Venezuela), getting back from an early 5-1 deficit towards the Leones del Escogido (Dominican Republic) to win 10-7 and clinch a spot in Wednesday’s semifinal knockout spherical at Estadio Nido de las Águilas in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Each the Dominican and Puerto Rican squads completed the primary spherical of play with 2-2 data, with the host nation’s Charros de Jalisco (4-0) because the No. 1 seed for the semifinals.
With the Puerto Rican membership’s victory in Tuesday’s first recreation, the nightcap grew to become a winner-take-all for the fourth and remaining semifinal spot between the Venezuelan membership and the Japan Breeze. The Cardenales breezed to a 10-0 victory to safe their ticket to the knockout spherical, no-hitting the Japanese workforce in an eight-inning mercy rule end. Venezuela will tackle the Dominican Republic within the first semifinal matchup at 5 p.m. ET on Wednesday, and Mexico will face Puerto Rico at 10 p.m.
Tuesday’s first recreation was an entire reversal for the Puerto Rican squad managed by Wil Cordero. In Monday’s recreation vs. the Cardenales, Mayagüez took a 5-1 lead into the highest of the fourth inning, solely to see the Venezuelan membership rating 9 unanswered runs for a 10-5 win. Within the contest towards the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico fell behind 5-1 within the backside of the primary thanks to a few unearned runs off its starter Eduardo Rivera, with the large blow being a three-run homer by Junior Lake after second baseman Shed Lengthy Jr.’s error saved the inning alive.
After a run-scoring triple by Isán Díaz and an RBI single by Lengthy lower the Leones’ result in 5-3 within the second, the Dominican membership managed by Albert Pujols regained a four-run benefit within the backside of the third on a sacrifice fly by Sandber Pimentel and a double-steal of second and residential on which Junior Lake scored to make it 7-3.
Mayagüez would storm again, nevertheless. After a fielder’s alternative RBI by Rubén Castro lower the result in 7-4 within the fifth, 2021 NLCS MVP Eddie Rosario tied the sport within the high of the eighth with a bases-loaded single that scored all three runners after Dominican Republic first baseman Yamaico Navarro mishandled the relay throw from proper fielder Sócrates Brito. Later within the inning, Rosario would give the Puerto Rican workforce the lead when he scampered dwelling on a wild pitch by Leones reliever Jimmy Cordero, and an RBI double by Lengthy made it 9-7.
Within the high of the ninth, Anthony García added an insurance coverage run with a solo dwelling run off Phillips Valdez, the Dominican Republic’s seventh pitcher of the day.
After Rivera’s 2 2/3 inning begin with seven runs allowed (4 earned), Mayagüez’s bullpen held the Leones scoreless within the final 6 1/3 frames with Héctor Santiago, Carlos Francisco, José de León and Justin Yeager scattering seven hits. De León picked up a maintain after pitching the eighth, whereas Yeager notched the save along with his scoreless ninth.
For the Dominican Republic, the dropping pitcher was reliever Joe Corbett, who was charged with 5 earned runs in 2/3 of an inning.
