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An exciting walk-off, an early scoring barrage and a shutdown bullpen effort highlighted Day 3 of the Caribbean Series, with two groups remaining undefeated within the match after Saturday’s motion.
Panama improved to 2-0 within the match thanks largely to the heroics of heart fielder Jhonny Santos. Santos homered within the second inning to tie the sport, 1-1, after which delivered a clutch walk-off triple within the ninth.
Bobby Bradley, Agustin Murillo and Aaron Altherr every drove in a run for Mexico (0-2). Bradley opened the scoring with an RBI single within the first inning, Murillo singled on a bunt towards third base that scored Roberto Valenzuela and Altherr tripled in a run to present Mexico a two-run lead within the ninth.
But Ivan Herrera was hit by a pitch to open the house half of the body, and moved to 3rd on a double by the subsequent batter, Christian Bethancourt. One out later, Johan Camargo grounded out to second, bringing in Herrera to make it 3-2. Down to its final out, Panama’s hope rested on the shoulders of Jean Arnaez.
Arnaez got here by way of with a single to maintain Panama alive, and Santos adopted together with his triple to heart.
Also going to 2-0 with a victory Saturday was Venezuela. This sport was decided early, with all of the scoring going down over the primary three innings.
Venezuela jumped forward shortly with two runs within the prime of the primary on a two-run homer by Ramon Flores. Jonathan Schoop’s RBI groundout to shortstop obtained Curaçao on the board within the second. In the highest of the third, Yasiel Puig drew a bases-loaded stroll to increase Venezuela’s result in 3-1.
Later in that body, a Wilson Ramos groundout introduced in Venezuela’s fourth run. Curaçao scored a run within the backside of the third on a wild pitch, however that may be as shut as it could get.
Dominican Republic 5, Puerto Rico 2
The center of the Dominican lineup did many of the harm in a victory over Puerto Rico that evened its document at 1-1, whereas handing Puerto Rico (2-1) its first lack of the match.
The No. 3 by way of No. 6 hitters within the batting order every had two hits, with Robinson Canó and Dawel Lugo combining to go 4-for-9 with three RBIs. Those three runs all got here within the third — Canó launched a two-run homer and Lugo delivered an RBI single later within the body to present the DR a 4-0 lead.
Puerto Rico scored each of its runs within the fourth on a Danny Ortiz RBI double and a sacrifice fly by Johneshwy Fargas. From there, Dominican pitching shut down the opposition — César Valdez began and accomplished 5 innings, then turned issues over to the bullpen, from which Cameron Gann, J.C. Mejía and Jairo Asencio mixed for 4 scoreless innings to seal the victory.
