MEXICALI.- With the legendary Albert Pujols as manager, Dominican Republic He consecrated champion of the Caribbean series 2025 baseball after beating 1-0 a Mexico On Friday in the final held at the Nido de los Águilas stadium, in Mexicali (North).
In a fierce duel of Picheo, Junior Lake scored the only race in the upper part of the third entry.
Manny Bañuelos was the initialist pitcher of the Charros de Jalisco of Mexico, while Esmil Rogers opened for the lions of the chosen of the Dominican Republic.
Rogers looked solid in the hill in the closing of the first entrance, but in the second inning he lived a critical moment when he filled the house by granting three bases per ball, with two outs.
Dominican left that problem with a proper philage of antealist Cristhian Adames to a Foul’s hit.
Bañuelos suffered an identical situation in the third entry: he gave three tickets, but without outs.
The Mexican defenders began to solve the mess with a double play after a Robinson Canó’s hit, but they could not prevent Lake from traveling third base to home to score the 1-0 of the lions.
After working four full tickets, Bañuelos got off the mound with a record of 58 releases -36 strikes- and two strikeouts.
David Gutiérrez fulfilled an effective relay during two episodes with 17 pichadas -13 strikes- and a couple of chocolates.
After the shock of the second entry, Rogers imposed his law and left the game after completing the sixth roll with 101 releases -56 strikes- and recipeing four strikeouts.
Joe Corbett took over for the lions in the seventh entrance and was dominant in his 17 releases -11 strikes- with a pave’s pair.
Julio Cruz took the caste for the Mexican Picheo in the seventh and eighth entrance, and with 31 releases -18 strikes- and two strikeouts kept the charros with hopes.
Closing without major setbacks
But the Mexican toleteros did not harm Ulises Joaquín, of outstanding work with 14 pitching -11 strikes- in the penultimate episode.
Stephen Nogosek, in the novena, with 16 releases -10 strikes- hung another zero for Mexico in defense.
Jimmy Cordero was placed in the center of the diamond by Dominican to close the game with 17 releases -10 Strikes- and two chocolates. The tie race stayed in the second base.
Rogers was the winning pitcher with lamb rescue. Bañuelos charged with the defeat in this final.
Thus, in the first year of Pujols as a manager, the lions of the chosen one were crowned for the fifth time as a club in the Caribbean series and confirmed to the Dominican Republic as the most successful country in the history of the tournament, with 23 titles.
The chosen lions finished the tournament with four games won and two losses and gave the Charros de Jalisco their only defeat to leave them with a 5-1 mark.
