Panama left the World Baseball Championship with a good taste in their mouths

Panama failed to achieve his goal of reaching the second round in his third appearance in the World Baseball Classic, but despite this he added his first wins and managed to directly qualify for the next version of the tournament.

The Panamanian team, which competed with five baseball players from The big leagueshe left the tournament with good feelings and positive prospects.

“I think a lot has been won, because first we don’t have to qualify for the next one The World Baseball Classiclet’s go now, it’s a gain in terms of the investment that needs to be made to play the previous round”, said the technical manager Panamanian Baseball Federation (Fedebeis), Aníbal Reluz.

He added that the cost that can be saved can be invested in better preparation, and that savings would be about $250,000.

The manager made a mea culpa pointing out that some things were missed classiclike the occasional hitting, but overall the tournament left lessons.

“He’s teaching us better management so that we can have all our players playing in the Major Leagues,” the former Panama skipper said on a world baseball classic in 2006.

RACES AND VICTORY

By the third appearance, the Panamanians were able to enjoy a victory in the tournament. In the first two classics, the Istmeños went 0-5, despite having established players and starters in the big league teams.

In the latter, under the tutelage of Mr Louis Ortiz, victories were achieved against Chinese Taipei (12-5) and Italy (2-0).

In addition to the fact that 17 years later he stood on the board again. He scored his last match against Cuba in 2006.

In that version of the Classic, the Panamanians went 0-3, recalling defeats against Puerto Rico (2-1), Cuba (8-6) and the Netherlands (10-0).

The latter was a no-hit, no-run game, the only result of its kind in the championship.

In the 2009 version of the Classic, the Panamanians finished 0-2.

GOOD PRESENTATION

In this 2023. Panama with the two wins he also saw improvements in his pitching and hitting stats.

His at-bats have improved, playing four games, the Panamanian batting .274 (37 hits in 135 innings).

That compares to a collective batting average of .165 (15-91) in 2006 and .177 (11-62) in 2009.

As for the pitching staff, in this 2023, the pitchers have worked to two wins and two losses and a 5.40 ERA.

In 35.0 innings, they allowed 47 hits, gave up 15 hits and struck out 24.

In 2006, they went 0-3 with a 5.19 ERA, and in 2009 (0-2) they had a 6.75 ERA.