Free baseball in Escogido.  Errors and bad baserunning play a key role.

CIBAO 7, ESCOGIDO 6 IN ESCOGIDO (11 INNINGS)

Twins:  Jorge Polanco (Escogido) was 1-for-4 with an RBI.

Cibao:  Jonathan Diaz (Toronto) was 3-for-6 with two RBIs.  Wilson Betemit (Baltimore) was 2-for-5 with a walk and a double, scoring once.  Fabio Castro struck out five in five innings, giving up two runs (one earned) on one hit and one walk.

Escogido:  Freddy Guzman was 2-for-5 with a walk, a double, and a triple, scoring twice.  Jason Bergmann pitched three innings, allowing one run on five hits and no walks with two strikeouts.

The game:  Guzman tripled and scored to give Escogido a 1-0 lead in the first.  Cibao came back with two in the second and three in the third to go up 5-1.  It was 6-1 after five, but Escogido came back, scoring four runs in the sixth on only two hits (three walks, an error, and a wild pitch).  In the ninth, a walk and two errors tied the score.  Cibao pulled it together, though, and in the eleventh Diaz singled in the winning run.  Escogido got runners on first and third with none out in the bottom of the ninth, but the tying run was thrown out trying to score on a ground ball to the pitcher.