Archive for March, 2008
Yulieski Gourriel Pops 3 Homers
by Ray Otero baseballdecuba.com Last night Yulieski Gourriel the young hitter of Sancti Spíritus connected for three homers in a game. It was against Cienfuegos and Gourriel arrived at 22 homers in the season. The last player who did this in a series was Kenen Bailly of Guantánamo during the actual ...
Jonder Martinez Wins ERA Title
by Ray Otero baseballdecuba.com Yoandy Garlobo of Matanzas and Jonder Martínez of La Habana finalized as batting average leader and ERA leader respectively of the 47th National Series when this Sunday ended the calendar of the tournament. Garlobo was in a close race with Yasser Gómez of Industriales and Leonys Martín ...
Post-Season Matchups
by Ray Otero baseballdecuba.com The tentative 2008 postseason schedule was released after Thursday night games, which includes all the games for the eight teams participating in the first decisive round of the 47th Cuban National Series. With only three games remaining in the 47th NS, Santiago de Cuba in Group D, and ...
Chinatrust Whales Nips Brother Elephants
The Chinatrust Whales continued their winning ways on Sunday with a 5-2 win over Brother Elephants (1-3) in Chinese Professional Baseball League action. Three players (Che-Wei Kang, Abraham Nunez, and Carlos Villalobos) collected two hits apiece as the Whales banged 12 hits to improve to 4-0 on the young season. Rookie ...
Pinar del Rio Sweeps La Habana
by Ray Otero baseballdecuba.com Pinar del Río completed a three-game sweep over La Habana on Sunday afternoon to increase its possibilities of clinching the last Play Off spot in the Western Zone of the 47th Cuban National Series. Isla de la Juventud was defeated by Industriales 4-1, and the team is ...
Canada Wins Final Olympic Qualifier
Canada edged Germany 2-1 in 10 innings on Friday to win the Final Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Taiwan and a berth in the 2008 Olympics . Korea and Chinese Taipei finished second and third, respectively, to also book their tickets to Beijing, China. With an Olympic spot already secured entering the ...
Hitting Stats
BATTERS TEAM PA AB H AVG 1. KIM, JOO CHAN KOREA 19 16 10 .625 2. VAN OSTRAND, JAMES CANADA 21 18 10 .556 3. HUGHES, LUKE AUSTRALIA 26 23 12 .522 4. CHANG, CHIEH-MING CHINESE TAIPEI 31 25 12 .480 5. LEE, SEUNG YUOP KOREA 24 23 11 .478 6. WEGLARZ, NICHOLAS CANADA 26 ...