Yorman Landa makes a perfect Venezuelan debut.  Zulia zooms on La Guaira boots.  Lots of blowouts.

MARGARITA 8, LARA 2 IN MARGARITA

Twins:  Antoan Richardson (Margarita) was 0-for-3 with a walk and scored once.

Lara:  Paulo Orlando (Kansas City) was 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs.  Jesus Montero (Seattle) was 2-for-4 with a double.

Margarita:  Gerson Montilla (Arizona) was 2-for-4 with a triple, scoring once and driving in two.  Adam Duvall (San Francisco) was 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI.  Danny Rosenbaum (Washington) pitched six shutout innings, allowing four hits and one walk with three strikeouts.

The game:  It was scoreless until the fifth, when Montilla hit a two-run triple.  He eventually came around to score and give Margarita a 3-0 lead.  Margarita added one in the sixth and two in the seventh.  Both Lara runs came in the eighth.

ZULIA 8, LA GUAIRA 2 IN ZULIA

Twins:  Yorman Landa (La Guaira) struck out two in two perfect innings.

La Guaira:  Luis Sardinas (Texas) was 2-for-3 with a walk and scored once.  Nick McCully (White Sox) struck out three in two shutout innings, giving up one hit and no walks.

Zulia:  Ernesto Mejia (Atlanta) was 2-for-4 with a home run (his third) and scored twice.  Henry Rodriguez (Cincinnati) was 2-for-4 with a run.

The game:  La Guaira scored two in the first, but then Zulia took over.  Two errors led to three Zulia runs in the second, and Zulia added five more in the fourth, aided by two more errors.  All four La Guaira errors were throwing errors.

ANZOATEGUI 14, MAGALLANES 6 IN MAGALLANES

Twins:  Eduardo Escobar (Anzoategui) was 1-for-4 with a walk and a double, scoring once and driving in two.

Anzoategui:  Gorkys Hernandez (Kansas City) was 3-for-5 with a walk and two doubles, scoring four times and driving in one.  Luis Nunez was 3-for-6 with a double, scoring once and driving in one.  Cory Aldridge was 2-for-4 with two walks and a double, scoring twice and driving in three.

Magallanes:  Lew Ford was 2-for-5 with a double, scoring once and driving in one.  Mario Lisson was 2-for-5 with two RBIs.  Eliezer Alfonzo (Dodgers) was 2-for-4.

The game:  Anzoategui led 3-1 after four.  A two-run error in the fifth made it 5-1.  A two-run double by Aldridge made it 7-2 in the sixth, and that was pretty much the ballgame.