The semi-final participants have been set, but not their seeds.  One day of round-robin play left.

VENEZUELA 6, CUBA 2 (CUBA HOME TEAM)

Venezuela:  Balbino Fuenmayor (Kansas City) was 3-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs.  Gorkys Hernandez (Pittsburgh) was 2-for-5 with a triple, scoring once and driving in one.  Cesar Valdez struck out eight in seven innings, giving up two runs on seven hits and no walks.

Cuba:  Alexander Malleta was 2-for-4 with a home run.  Luis Valdes was 1-for-4 with a home run.  Livan Moinelo pitched 3.2 innings, allowing one run on one hit and one walk with one strikeout.

The game:  Malleta homered in the second to put Cuba up 1-0, but Venezuela came back with four in the third to take control.  Hernandez had a run-scoring triple and Orlando Arcia (Milwaukee), Alexi Amarista (San Diego), and Fuenmayor each had an RBI single in the inning.  Cuba never got closer than three runs after that.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 3, MEXICO 2 (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC HOME TEAM)

Mexico:  Eric Farris (Minnesota) was 2-for-4.  Maxwell Leon was 1-for-4 with an RBI.  Amilcar Gaxiola pitched five shutout innings, giving up three hits and two walks with four strikeouts.

Dominican Republic:  Leury Garcia (White Sox) was 2-for-5 with a double, scoring once and driving in one.  Jonathan Villar (Houston) was 1-for-1 with a double and two walks.  Parker Frazier pitched five innings, allowing an unearned run on four hits and no walks with four strikeouts.

The game:  Leon singled in a run in the third and a run scored on an error in the seventh to put Mexico up 2-0.  A walk, an error, and a wild pitch put the Dominican Republic on the board in the eighth.  In the ninth, three singles and a walk tied the score and loaded the bases with one out.  Elian Herrera (Milwaukee) then singled to center to bring home the winning run.

STANDINGS

Venezuela, 3-0
Dominican Republic, 2-1
Mexico, 2-1
Cuba, 1-3
Puerto Rico, 0-3

There's one day left in the round robin, but Puerto Rico has been eliminated.  Presumably the tie-breaker is that Cuba beat Puerto Rico in their head-to-head game.  All games are played in Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico.