Only one game, but it was quite a game. A rough day for Deolis Guerra.
ANZOATEGUI 11, MAGALLANES 8 IN ANZOATEGUI
Twins: Eduardo Escobar (Anzoategui) was 0-for-3 with a walk and a run. Deolis Guerra (Magallanes) pitched one-third of an inning, giving up four runs on three hits and one walk.
Magallanes: Adonis Garcia (Yankees) was 3-for-5 with a two-run homer, his eighth. Argenis Diaz (Cincinnati) was 2-for-4 with a double and a triple, scoring once and driving in one. Endy Chavez (Seattle) was 2-for-4 with a walk and a double, scoring once and driving in three.
Anzoategui: Alexi Amarista (San Diego) was 3-for-4 with a walk, a double, and a home run (his second), scoring twice and driving in four. Jose Castillo was 3-for-5 with four RBIs. Adam Loewen was 1-for-4 with a home run.
The game: Castillo singled in two in the first inning to give Anzoategui a 2-0 lead. Diaz tripled and scored in the top of the third to make it 2-1, but Amarista hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the third to give Anzoategui a 4-1 advantage. Each team scored once in the fifth. Garcia hit a two-run homer in the sixth to cut the lead to 5-4. In the seventh, Chavez doubled in a run to tie it and Ezequiel Carrera singled in a run to give Magallanes its first lead at 6-5. Castillo singled in a run to tie it at six, but in the eighth, Carlos Maldonado singled in the go-ahead run and a bases-loaded walk put Magallanes up 8-6. In the bottom of the eighth, however, Anzoategui scored five times. Loewen singled to lead off the inning, Jackson Melian singled in a run to tie the game, and a bases-loaded single-and-error by Amarista brought home three to give Anzoategui an 11-8 lead. Magallanes got only one baserunner in the ninth.