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Lara Recaps: Games Fourteen, Fifteen, and Sixteen

ZULIA 6, LARA 1 IN LARA

Saturday

Zulia scored three in the fifth to take a 4-0 lead.  Ildemaro Vargas was 2-for-3 with a walk.  Josmar Cordero was 2-for-4.  Ex-Twin Logan Darnell started for Lara.  He struck out five in 4.1 innings, but allowed four runs (one earned) on five hits and a walk.  Angelo Palumbo pitched three innings, giving up two runs (one earned) on seven hits and no walks and striking out two.

ARAGUA 4, LARA 2 IN ARAGUA (GAME 1--7 INNINGS)

Sunday

Aragua scored three in the first and did not trail after that.  All the game's runs were scored in the first two innings.  Gorkys Hernandez homered for Lara.  Ex-Twin Williams Perez started and pitched three innings, allowing four runs on six his and two walks and striking out one.  Maximo Castillo struck out three in three shutout innings of relief, giving up one hit.

ARAGUA 2, LARA 0 IN ARAGUA (GAME 2--7 INNINGS)

Sunday

Aragua scored both of their runs in the fourth inning.  Ildemaro Vargas was 2-for-2 with a walk.  Alejandro Requena started and pitched 3.1 innings, giving up one run on two hits and a walk and striking out three.

Record:  Lara is 9-7, tied for first with Magallanes in the West Division.

Next game:  Lara hosts La Guaira in a doubleheader on Tuesday.

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Lara Recaps: Game Thirteen

LARA 6, MARGARITA 5 IN LARA (10 INNINGS)

Batting stars:  Gorkys Hernandez was 3-for-5 with two RBIs.  Ildemaro Vargas was 3-for-6 with a double and two RBIs.  Josmar Cordero was 2-for-2 with a walk.

Pitching stars:  Nestor Molina pitched four innings, giving up one run on two hits and three walks and striking out four.  Yapson Gomez struck out two in two perfect innings.  Leonel Campos pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a hit and a walk and striking out one.  Derian Gonzalez pitched a perfect inning.

Opposition stars:  David Rodriguez was 3-for-4 with a home run (his second), a walk, and two RBIs.  Eguy Rosario was 2-for-5.  Henry Centeno pitched 5.1 innings, giving up one run on five hits and two walks and striking out one.

The game:  Cordero singled home a run in the eighth to tie it 3-3.  In the top of the tenth, a wild pitch scored one run and Rodriguez singled home another to make it 5-3.  In the bottom of the tenth, with two out, Lara got consecutive RBI singles by Hernandez, Deiner Lopez, and Vargas to win the game.

WP:  Gonzalez (1-0).  LP:  Alfred Gutierrez (2-2).  S:  None.

Notes:  Cordero is batting .414.  Vargas is batting .355.  Gabriel Moreno is batting .342.  Yordanys Linares and Carlos Rivero are each batting .333.  Yonathan Mendoza is batting .325.  Jecksson Flores is batting .318.  Jose Tabata is batting .308.

Jesus Sanchez gave up a run in one inning and has an ERA of 2.79.  Gomez has an ERA of zero.  Campos has an ERA of 2.35.

Each team used seven pitchers.

Lara stranded 12 and Margarita stranded 11.

Record:  Lara is 9-4  in first place in the West Division, two games ahead of Magallanes.

Next game:  Lara hosts Zulia tonight.

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Lara Recaps: Game Twelve

LARA 9, ZULIA 3 IN ZULIA

Wednesday

Lara scored six in the third and led the rest of the way.  Ildemaro Vargas had a two-run double in the inning.  Yordanys Linares was 4-for-5 with a home run (his third), two runs, and two RBIs.  Raul Rivero got the win, pitching five innings and giving up two runs on six hits and a walk and striking out three.

Thursday

No game.

Record:  Lara is 8-4, in third place in the West Division, two games ahead of Magallanes and Margarita.

Next game:  Lara hosts Margarita tonight.

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Lara Recaps: Game Eleven

Shorter recaps today.

LARA 15, ZULIA 1 IN LARA

Lara scored eight runs in the second and led all the way.  Ildemaro Vargas was 4-for-4.  Home runs were by Carlos Rivero (his first), Yordanys Linares (his second), and Jecksson Flores (his first).  Leonel Aponte started and pitched three shutout innings, giving up only a walk and striking out one.

Record:  Lara is 7-4, in first place, one game ahead of Margarita.

Next game:  Lara is at Zulia tonight.

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Lara Recaps: Game Ten

CARACAS 9, LARA 1 AT CARACAS

Batting stars:  Yonathan Mendoza was 2-for-4 with a double.  Josmar Cordero was 2-for-4 with a double.

Pitching star:  Wilking Rodriguez pitched two shutout innings, giving up two hits.

Opposition stars:  Frank Lopez pitched five innings, giving up one run on five hits and three walks and striking out four.  Ericson Leonora was 3-for-3 with a double and a walk.  Alexander Palma was 3-for-4 with a home run, a double, two runs, and two RBIs.  Jose Rondon was 2-for-4 with a home run (his second), a walk, two runs, and three RBIs.  Jhonny Pareda was 2-for-5.

The game:  Mendoza doubled and scored on a Yordanys Linares single to put Lara on the board in the first inning.  It was all Caracas from there.  Rondon hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the first to make it 2-1.  In the third, Ronny Cedeno hit a solo homer and Palma hit a two-run homer to make it 5-1.  Romer Cuadrado singled home a run in the fifth, and another scored on a double play, increasing the lead to 7-1.  In the eighth, a single and four walks brought home the final two runs.

WP:  Lopez (1-0).  LP:  Daniel Alvarez (0-1).  S:  None.

Notes:  Mendoza is batting .419.  Gabriel Moreno was 1-for-3 and is batting .419.  Cordero is batting 389.

Alvarez started but pitched just two innings, allowing four runs on six hits and a walk and striking out one.

Lara used six pitchers.  Four of them have ERAs of nine or higher.  The lowest of the six was Fabian Blanco, who is at 5.40.

Record:  Lara is 6-4, in first place in the West Division by one game over Magallanes and Margarita.

Next game:  Lara hosts Zulia tonight.

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Lara Recaps: Games Eight and Nine

Shorter recaps today.  Lara did not play Sunday, so both these games are from Saturday.

LARA 3, LA GUAIRA 2 AT LA GUAIRA (GAME 1--7 INNINGS)

Trailing 2-0, Lara scored three in the seventh to win it.  Yonathan Mendoza's two-run single brought home the tying and go-ahead runs.  Mendoza was 2-for-3.  Ex-Twin Logan Darnell pitched five innings, giving up two runs (one earned) on five hits and one walk and striking out none.

LARA 6, LA GUAIRA 2 AT LA GUAIRA (GAME 2--7 INNINGS)

Lara scored all six runs in the sixth inning after trailing 1-0 through five.  Josmar Cordero had a three-run single-plus-error and Yonathan Mendoza hit a two-run homer.  Cordero was 2-for-3.  Alejandro Requena pitched three shutout innings, giving up one hit and no walks and striking out one.

Record:  Lara is 6-3, in first place in the West Division, one game ahead of Margarita.

Next game:  Lara is at Caracas tonight.

 

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Lara Recaps: Game Seven

LARA 4, MAGALLENES 1 AT LARA

Batting stars:  Gorkys Hernandez was 3-for-4 with a double.  Yordanys Linares was 2-for-4 with a double.  Gabriel Moreno was 2-for-4.

Pitching stars:  Raul Rivero struck out five in five shutout innings, giving up two hits and two walks.  Yapson Gomez struck out two in two shutout innings, giving up one hit.  Vicente Campos pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit and striking out one.

Opposition star:  Jhoan Quijada pitched a perfect inning and struck out one.

The game:  It was scoreless until the sixth.  With one out Hernandez singled, Linares doubled, Josmar Cordero hit a two-run single, Moreno singled, a hit batsman loaded the bases, and a ground out scored another run, making it 3-0 Lara.  In the eighth Moreno singled, went to second on a wild pitch, and scored on a Rene Reyes single to make it 4-0.

Magallanes scored its lone run in the ninth.  Reynaldo Rodriguez doubled and scored on an Alberth Martinez single.

WP:  Gomez (1-0).  LP:  Felix Doubront (0-1).  S:  None.

Notes:  Moreno is batting .435.

Rivero's ERA is 1.93.  Gomez and Campos each has an ERA of zero.

Record:  Lara is 4-3, tied for first in the West Division with Margarita.

Next game:  Lara has a doubleheader at LaGuaira today.

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Lara Recaps: Game Six

MAGALLANES 8, LARA 5 AT MAGALLANES

Batting stars:  Gabriel Moreno was 3-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs.  Yonathan Mendoza was 2-for-4.  Joantgel Segovia was 1-for-4 with a home run.  Josmar Cordero was 1-for-4 with a home run.

Pitching stars:  Daniel Alvarez pitched three innings, giving up one run on two hits and no walks and striking out two.  Jesus Sanchez pitched 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up two hits.  Hector Rodriguez retired all four men he faced.

Opposition stars:  Gabriel Noriega was 3-for-4 with four RBIs.  Ezequiel Carrera was 2-for-4 with a double.  Leonardo Reginatto was 2-for-4 with two runs.  Marc Flores was 1-for-4 with a home run, his second.

The game:  In the first, Carrera singled, stole second, and scored on a Reynaldo Rodriguez single to make it 1-0 Magallanes.  Lara tied it in the third on a Segovia home run.

Lara took its only lead in the fourth.  Mendoza singled, Gorkys Hernandez walked, and Moreno hit a three-run homer to make it 4-1 Lara.  Unfortunately, the lead lasted only until Magallanes batted in the bottom of the fourth.  Carlos Perez led off with a walk.  The next two batters went out, but an error extended the inning.  Reginatto singled to load the bases, Noriega had a two-run single, and ex-Twin Engelb Vielma hit a two-run triple, making it 5-4 Magallanes.

Lara tied it in the sixth on a Cordero home run.  Again, though, that lasted only until Magallanes came to bat again.  Flores led off with a home run.   Alberth Martinez then doubled and scored on Noriega's single, making it 7-5 Magallanes.  Magallanes added one more run in the eighth when Reginatto singled, stole second, and scored on a Noriega single.  Lara went down in order in the ninth.

WP:  Yohander Mendez (1-0).  LP:  Wilking Rodriguez (0-1).  S:  Jorge Rondon (2).

Notes:  Mendoza is batting .364.

Luis Oviedo allowed four runs in two-third of an inning, but they were all unearned, so his ERA remains at zero.  Sanchez has an ERA of  1.59.  Rodriguez remains with an ERA of zero.  Leonel Campos allowed a run in one inning to make his ERA 1.93.

Ex-Twin Yohan Pino started for Magallanes.  He did well for three innings, but his line is 3.1 innings, four runs, four hits, and a walk.  He struck out four.

The game was delayed for eighteen minutes in the second inning due to a power outage.

Record:  Lara is 3-3, tied for first place in the West Division.  All four teams in the West are 3-3.

Next game:  Lara hosts Magallanes tonight.

 

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Lara Recap: Game Five

ZULIA 1, LARA 0 AT ZULIA

Batting stars:  None.  Lara had just four hits, all singles.

Pitching stars:  Maximo Castillo pitched three innings, giving up an unearned run on two hits and a walk and striking out one.  Leonel Aponte retired all seven men he faced, striking out three.  Leonel Campos struck out two in 1.2 scoreless innings, giving up one hit.  Jesus Sanchez pitched a perfect inning.

Opposition stars:  Anderson Munoz pitched 2.2 scoreless innings, giving up a hit and a walk and striking out two.  Will Changarotty pitched three shutout innings, giving up one hit and striking out one.

The game:  The game's lone run scored in the first inning.  An error, a bunt, and an Olmo Rosario single made it 1-0 Zulia, and the run held up.

WP:  Changarotty (1-0).  LP:  Castillo (0-1).  S:  Silvino Bracho (2).

Notes:  Jose Tabata was 1-for-4 and is batting .400.  Gabriel Moreno was 1-for-3 and is batting .333.

Castillo has an ERA of 2.25.  Aponte and Campos each has an ERA of zero.  Sanchez' ERA is 2.08.

There were only seven hits in the game, all singles.  There were four walks.

Despite that, the game still took nearly three hours, coming in at 2:57.

Record:  Lara is 3-2, tied for first with Margarita in the West Division.

Next game:  Lara is at Magallanes tonight.

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Lara Recaps: Games Three and Four

As we are catching up, the recaps will be shorter.  We hope to get back to full recaps tomorrow.

LARA 7, MARGARITA 6 IN LARA (11 INNINGS)

Sunday

Cesar Izturis hit a two-run triple to bring Lara back from a 6-5 deficit in the eleventh.  Yonathan Mendoza was 2-for-2 with three walks and Joantvel Segovia was 2-for-5 with a double.  Yordanys Linares hit a home run.  Starter Williams Perez lasted just 2.2 innings, allowing four runs (two earned) on four hits and two walks and striking out two.

LARA 6, MARGARITA 2 IN MARGARITA

Tuesday

Yonathan Mendoza's RBI triple in the eighth broke a 2-2 tie and Lara scored three in the ninth to put it away.  Gabriel Moreno was 3-for-5 with two doubles.  Mendoza was 2-for-5 and had a double to go along with his triple.  Ex-Twin Logan Darnell started and pitched four innings, giving up an unearned run on three hits and a walk and striking out two.

Record:  Lara is 3-1, in first place in the West Division, a half game ahead of Magallanes.

Next game:  Lara is at Zulia tonight.