Mexican Matchups: Games of 12/29

John Lindsey could run for mayor in Navojoa.  It was singles night for Hermosillo.  Four-run innings decide games in Los Mochis and Guasave.

NAVOJOA 5, OBREGON 4 IN OBREGON (10 INNINGS)

Navojoa:  John Lindsey was 1-for-4 with a walk and a home run, his fifth.  Carlos Orrantia was 1-for-3 with a walk, scoring once and driving in one.  Jose Guadalupe Chavez was 2-for-5 with a triple and a run.

Obregon:  Agustin Murillo was 2-for-5 with two RBIs.  Alfredo Amezaga was 1-for-5 with a run and an RBI.  Sergio Contreras was 3-for-5 with a double and an RBI.

The game:  Murillo singled in a run in the first to give Obregon a 1-0 lead.  A passed ball scored a run to tie it in the third.  Navojoa took the lead in the fifth on a Jon Weber RBI single, but Obregon went back in front in the bottom of the fifth on RBI singles by Amezaga and Murillo.  They held the lead until the eighth, when Orrantia singled in the tying run and Rodrigo Aguirre doubled home the go-ahead run.  Sergio Contreras tied it back up in the bottom of the ninth with a run-scoring double, but in the tenth, Lindsey homered with what turned out to be the winning run.  Obregon went down in order in the bottom of the tenth.

HERMOSILLO 5, MAZATLAN 1 IN HERMOSILLO

Mazatlan:  Alberto Carreon was 1-for-1 with three walks and an RBI.  Jose Manuel Orozco was 1-for-3 with a run.  Horacio Ramirez pitched five innings, giving up one run on six hits and four walks with two strikeouts.

Hermosillo:  Heber Gomez was 2-for-3 with a walk and a double, scoring once and driving in one.  Jonathan Aceves was 1-for-1 with a run and an RBI.  Barry Enright pitched three shutout innings, allowing one hit and two walks with two strikeouts.

The game:  It was scoreless until the fifth, when Carreon's RBI single put Mazatlan up 1-0.  Hermosillo tied it in the bottom of the fifth on a run-scoring double by Gomez.  In the seventh, Hermosillo scored four times to take control of the game.  The runs scored on RBI singles by Aceves, Luis Alfonzo Garcia, Daryle Ward, and Yunesky Sanchez.  Mazatlan did not get a man on base after that.

LOS MOCHIS 6, CULIACAN 2 IN LOS MOCHIS

Culiacan:  Ronnier Mustelier (Yankees) was 3-for-4 with a run.  Maxwell Leon was 1-for-4 with a double and an RBI.  Mario Valdez was 1-for-1 with a run.

Los Mochis:  Sergio Perez was 1-for-3 with a walk, scoring once and driving in two.  Sebastian Valle was 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI.  Marco Quevedo pitched five shutout innings, allowing two hits and no walks with three strikeouts.

The game:  Los Mochis scored four in the second to take control of the game early.  Valle singled in one, two scored on an error, and the fourth scored on a wild pitch.  Los Mochis added single runs in the third and fifth.  Culiacan got two in the eighth but never really threatened to get back into the game.

MEXICALI 8, GUASAVE 1 IN GUASAVE

Mexicali:  Russell Branyan was 1-for-4 with a grand slam, his eleventh homer.  Cristhian Presichi was 2-for-3 with a walk and a home run (his third), scoring twice.  Javier Solano (Dodgers) struck out six in six innings, giving up one run on four hits and two walks.

Guasave:  Eduardo Arredondo was 2-for-4 with a run.  Gabriel Gutierrez was 1-for-3 with a double.  Jose Herberto Felix (Texas) was 2-for-4.

The game:  Guasave opened the scoring with an RBI ground out in the first, but it went backwards for them after that.  Presichi homered in the second to tie the score and in the third, Mexicali scored four times on Branyan's two-out grand slam to take control of the game.  Guasave never really threatened to get back in to the game, and a two-run homer by Ricky Alvarez in the seventh put it out of reach.