Nicaragua showed a surprising domain in the qualifier for the World Baseball Classic that was played this week in Taiwan And he ended undefeated with three victories, after beating the 6-0 host country this Sunday and thus ensure his presence in the next baseball tournament, which is scheduled for 2026.
The Nicaraguans became in this way the tenth seventh set with safe ticket for the classic, which will celebrate at that time its sixth edition.
The Central American team chopped in the same first episode, in which it manufactured two annotations. Subsequently, he made one more in the sixth and closed with three in the ninth act to sentence the actions.
Taiwan’s best opportunity came in the fourth entrance, when they filled the foundations with an out. Given this situation, Nicaragua turned to the pitcher Osmar Gutiérrez, who dominated the next two batters to get out of the squeeze.
The domain exhibited by Nicaragua was not in the forecasts, especially with a Taiwanese squad that came from being crowned champion in the last Premier 12 tournament, held at the end of 2024.
From this qualifying key, there is still a ticket to be distributed and it will be delivered to the winner of the commitment between Spain and Taiwan on Tuesday. These two teams already measured forces on Friday, with a victory of Europeans per marker of 12-5.
However, the Iberians will have to battle against their recent history, as they failed in their two opportunities to secure the ticket for the 2023 classic in the Regensburg qualifiers a few years ago.
Next stop
The last two tickets for the next edition of the WBC will be disputed in Tucson, Arizona, starting next March 2.
The last time the nations tournament was held was in 2023, when Japan took the scepter in a fierce final against the United States, in which Shohei Ohtani struck out his then fellow Mike Trout to seal the Lauro.
