Elpidio Pinto: “The match against the Dominican Republic is crucial”

Technician Elpidio Pintostated that tomorrow’s match, Sunday, May 21, 2023, against the Dominican Republic, is crucial for the team’s aspirations at the Premundial in the U-12 category, which is played in Aguascalientes, Mexico.

Pinto said he had to defeat the Caribbean troops to stay alive. “All parties are important, but this one in front Dominican is key” The technical director of the Panamanian ninth team was very motivated yesterday after achieving a great victory 15 races to 14 against Cuban national team.

“It was a more difficult victory, because I had to make a lot of changes and be aware of the rules that apply in the tournament. We managed to raise the morale of the team in time because the Cubans hit us with five home runs.

They have a very strong attack, but ours was better and I told my guys that we have to take advantage of the fact that their pitching is not so good and we managed to do that, but it was difficult to win, I almost ran out of benches because I had to use a lot of players.” , Pinto assured. For the game against the Dominican Republic, the pitcher will be Yunieski Sánchez, who was the closer today, but can work smoothly tomorrow. let’s get to it classification, ended with the saying of Elpidio Pinto.

Panama lost in their debut last Friday

Panama sold their defeat dearly and lost 5 runs to 4 against Mexico at the first term of the U12 Baseball Pre-World Championship which was launched in the city of Aguascalientes in Mexico and which allocates 4 places for World Cup 2023.

Mexico scored 2 runs in the bottom of the second inning, one in the third and 2 more in the fourth to score 5 runs on 6 hits and a fielding error. Panama scored 1 in the top of the first and 3 in the 5th Algis Palacios bombed with two on board to bring Panama closer to the scoreboard.

The left-handed pitcher and starter took the win Geronino Perez Mexican who walked 4.1 innings with 7 hits, 3 runs, all earned, 1 walk and 6 hitters. Game saved for Alfonso Del Valle.

Losing the game was Panamanian starter Javier Acevedo, who was able to work 3.1 innings before striking out step to Juan Pablo Alvarez which ended the engagement at 6.0 innings.

The best at bat Panama was Roger Vásquez 3-2 with a run scored, Algis Palacios 3-1 with 2 runs scored, 3 RBIs and a home run, Alain Cruz 2-1 and Carlos Aragón 1-1.

The tournament allocates four places for the 2023 World Cup in the U12 category to be played in Taiwan.