Panama defeated Chinese Taipei in the World Baseball Classic

Panama He picked up a historic victory this Wednesday after going 12-5 heading into the ninth Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) in his first game 2023 World Baseball Classic, played at the Intercontinental Stadium in the city Taichung.

A team of Panama He shook the opponent with an attack of 14 shots and a defense without a mistake, to make history with the first victory in this competition that started in 2006.

“Happy, absolutely happy, it’s a great win,” said the manager. Luis Ortiz at a press conference.

“We’ve never won, it’s sad, it’s part of history,” added Luis Ortiz’s driver and highlighted the offense of the Panamanian team

Ortiz lamented the early departure of starter Humberto Mejía, who can only throw 45 pitches and that forced his exit early in the game, very early.

Panama scored 5 runs in the fourth, 6 in the sixth and 1 in the seventh to secure the game. those of Chinese Taipei who played in their environment and with their people, they made 1 in the fifth, 1 in the sixth, 2 in the seventh and another in the eighth.

Jonathan Arauz He went 6-2 with 3 trailers, Jhadiel Santamaria 3-2 with 2 runs scored and 2 walks, Luis Castillo 4-2 and Jhony Santos 1-1.

Randall Delgado, the second pitcher used by manager Luis Ortiz, wins the game, going 2.2 innings with 5 hits, 1 run and 3 strikeouts.

Panama put runners on base in the first and second innings as pinch hitters Cristian Bethancourth and Luis Castillo singled, but it didn’t go any further as the Taiwanese pitcher hung on zeroes.

For third in the top, Colón’s Jhadiel Santamaría opened the episode with a double detonation cannonball to left, showing aggressiveness on the tracks, Allen Córdoba and Jonathan Araúz were ejected and Cristian Bethancourt was walked. With two outs, José Ramos grounded out to third base to close out the inning.

In the top of the fourth Panama opens the scoring at the feet of Rubén Tejada and is pulled by Luis Castillo who scored his second goal of the game. Tejada opened the inning with a “tubey” and Erasmo Caballero was walked.

José Caballero found an unstoppable goal to bring Panama’s second at the feet of Erasmo Caballero, and then Jhadiel Santamaría cleared the bases with a double-double to make it 4-0 in favor of Panama. The fourth was more productive when Cristian Bethancourt brought in Jahdiel Santamaría from second with the fifth inning.

Panama game on the same Wednesday at 23:00 (Isthmus time), against the team Netherlands which defeated Cuba in the first game of the day.