Oaxaca Ekes Out Win Over Diablos 2-1 in Game 5

GUERREROS SCORE BOTH RUNS IN BOTTOM OF THE 6th INNING ON NO HITS

Jose Carlos Medina

It was a real pitcher's duel between the Guerreros and the Diablos on Thursday night. Oaxaca won the game 2-1 as starter Jose Carlos Medina (1-0) held Mexico to 1 run on 3 hits over 6 innings of work. Carlos Felix pitched the 9th inning to earn the save. Octavio Acosta (0-1) took the loss being charged with both runs on 4 hits, striking out 4 and walking 3 in 5 1/3 innings.

Mexico didn't get a ball out of the infield until Yeison Asencio hit a fly ball to right in the 3rd inning.

In the top of the 4th, Juan Carlos Gamboa drew a 1 out walk. David Vidal singled moving Gamboa to third. With runners on the corners, Luis Jimenez singled to drive in Vidal and give the Diablos a 1-0 lead.

Oaxaca was held scoreless until the bottom of the 6th. With 1 out, Yuniesky Betancourt waited out a walk The next batter, Henry Urrutia, also walked. Dustin Geiger was hit by a pitch to load the bases. That was all for Acosta. Reliever Fabian Cota, walked Julian Ornelas to force in Betancourt. Samar Leyva lofted a sac fly to right to score Urrutia as the Guerreros took a 2-1 lead.

Samar Leyva

Neither team threatened in the remaining innings and the Guerreros de Oaxaca had the win and a 3 games to 2 lead in the Zona Sur Championship Series of the LMB.

6,030 fans filled Parque Eduardo Vasconcelos to watch the home team win the game. At one point during the top of the 8th inning, 7,700 fans from around Mexico, the United States and the Caribbean were watching the contest on Facebook.

The Series returns to Mexico City for game 6 on Saturday the 29th of September and game 7, if necessary, will be played on Sunday the 30th. The Zona Sur Champion will play the Sultanes de Monterrey for the Liga Mexicana de Beisbol title.

Guerreros Chrush Diablos 13-3 in Game Two of the Zona Sur Championship

OAXACA BATS EXPLODE FOR 19 HITS AND 13 RUNS TO EVEN CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

Yuniesky Betancourt Homers Twice

When the rains started falling on Saturday in Mexico City, no one could have imagined they would have opened the floodgates for the Guerreros on Sunday. Oaxaca was ahead 1-0 when the game was suspended but they scored 12 runs when the game resumed. Yuniesky Betancourt, who had given the Guerreros a 1-0 lead with a home run in the 1st inning, added the final 2 runs for Oaxaca with a 2 run home run in the top of the 9th. Betancourt drove in 3 while scoring 4 runs on a 4 for 6 hitting night.

The Diablos were held to 3 runs on 6 hits. Mexico also displayed sloppy defense with 4 errors that led to 5 runs directly but extended 3 innings for Oaxaca.

Irwin Delgado (1-0) picked up for his younger brother, Alex Delgado, after the suspended restart and scattered 6 hits over 5 innings to get the win. The Guerreros pitches struck out 12 Diablos and walked just 1 in stymying the Diablos bats.

Gonzalo Sanudo (0-1) gave up 4 runs on 3 hitsin3 innings to take the loss but 6 Diablos pitchers allowed runs to score in the 19 hit attack by the Guerreros.

Ricardo Valenzuela doubled to lead off the bottom of the 3rd for Mexico. A sacrifice bunt moved him to second. Juan Carlos Gamboa, the hero of game 1, doubled 2 outs later to score Valenzuela. A single by Yeison Asencio drove in Gamboa as the Diablos retook the lead 2-1.

Ricardo Valenzuela

David Vidal homered on a line drive to left in the bottom of the 4th to extend the Diablos short lived lead to 3-1.

Oaxaca took the lead for good in the top of the 5th inning, scoring 4 runs. A single by Alejandro Ginzalez, a 2 out double by Jay Austin, A Betancourt single, back-to-back walks to Henry Urrutia and Dustin Geiger and a single by Julio Ornelas accounted for the runs. Oaxaca never looked back as they added 8 more runs in the win.

Games 3, 4 and 5 will be played in Oaxaca beginning on Tuesday the 25th of September. If necessary, Game 6 will be played in Mexico City