Two Twins pitchers contribute to Aragua's victory.  Wrigley gums up the works for La Guaira.

ARAGUA 4, LARA 1 IN ARAGUA

Twins:  Dakota Watts (Aragua) struck out three in two shutout innings, giving up two hits and one walk.  Edgar Ibarra (Aragua) struck out two in a scoreless inning, giving up two hits and no walks.

Lara:  Elvis Escobar (Pittsburgh) was 1-for-3 with a walk and a triple, driving in one.  Guilder Rodriguez (Texas) was 1-for-2 with a walk and a run.  Richard Castillo pitched two perfect innings with one strikeout.

Aragua:  Jonel Pacheco was 1-for-4 with a run and an RBI.  Willson Contreras (Cubs) was 1-for-3 with a double and a run.  Victor Moreno pitched two perfect innings.

The game:  Aragua got on the board on an error in the first and scored two in the second on an RBI single by Pacheco and a run-scoring ground out.  Escobar tripled in a run with two out in the third to make it 3-1.  Lara put men on second and third with none out in the sixth but did not score.  Aragua added an insurance run in the eight.

CARACAS 4, LA GUAIRA 3 IN CARACAS (10 INNINGS)

La Guaira:  Carlos Sanchez (White Sox) was 2-for-4 with a double and two runs.  C. J. Retherford was 3-for-5 with an RBI.  Rafael Alvarez was 2-for-4 with an RBI.

Caracas:  Jesus Aguilar was 2-for-5 with a home run (his eighteenth) and two runs.  Aharon Eggleston was 3-for-4 with a walk and a home run, his second.

The game:  Each team scored once in the first.  In the third, La Guaira took a 2-1 lead on an RBI single by Rafael Alvarez.  Caracas tied it in the fifth on a run-scoring single by Henry Alejando Rodriguez (Cincinnati) and took the lead in the sixth when Aguilar homered.  La Guaira tied it in the seventh when they loaded the bases with none out and scored on a double play.  There was no more scoring until the tenth, when Henry Wrigley (who hopefully will play with the Cubs one day) delivered an RBI single to end the game.