No good Twins news. An error made the difference in Caguas. A comeback for Ponce.
CAGUAS 5, MAYAGUEZ 3 IN CAGUAS
Twins: Eddie Rosario (Mayaguez) was 0-for-3 with a walk and a run. Kennys Vargas (Mayaguez) was 0-for-4. Daniel Ortiz (Mayaguez) was 0-for-2 with a walk.
Mayaguez: Randy Ruiz was 3-for-4 with a home run (his sixth) and three RBIs. Irving Falu (Milwaukee) was 1-for-4 with a run. Luis Figueroa was 1-for-3 with a double.
Caguas: Aaron Bates was 3-for-4 with two runs. Miguel Abreu was 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Efrain Nieves (Toronto) struck out two in two shutout innings, allowing one hit and no walks.
The game: RBI singles by Luis Mateo (St. Louis) and Abreu gave Caguas a 2-0 lead in the second. Two runs scored on an error in the third to make it 4-0. Ruiz hit a two-run homer in the fourth to make it 4-2, but that was as close as Mayaguez would come. Abreu singled in another run in the sixth to increase the lead to 5-2. Mayaguez tallied in the ninth and brought the tying run up to bat with two out.
PONCE 5, CAROLINA 4 IN CAROLINA
Ponce: Reymond Fuentes (San Diego) was 2-for-5 with a triple and two RBIs. Ivan De Jesus (Baltimore) was 2-for-5 with two RBIs. Adalberto Flores struck out three in two shutout innings, giving up one hit and one walk.
Carolina: Anthony Garcia (St. Louis) was 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Osvaldo Martinez (Dodgers) was 1-for-2 with two walks and an RBI. Eliecer Navarro (Pittsburgh) pitched three shutout innings, allowing one hit and no walks.
The game: Garcia singled in a run in the first and in the second Carolina scored on a wild pitch and a ground out to take a 3-0 lead. Ponce got on the board on a Henry Ramos (Boston) RBI single but Carolina got the run back in the sixth when Martinez drove in a run with a single. In the seventh, Fuentes delivered a two-out two-run single to cut the lead to 4-3 and in the ninth De Jesus singled in a pair with two out to give Ponce the lead. Carolina got the tying run to second with two out in the bottom of the ninth.