Baseball Starts Spectacularly in Holguín

By Amauris Betancourt.

Holguín's baseball team, alias the Pups, played yesterday the first match as Home Club against Metropolitanos in the currently Cuban National Baseball League.

The Major General Calixto García stadium, its headquarters, was sold out. The fans wanted to see the Olympic sub-champion star Luis Miguel Rodríguez pitch but the outstanding supersonic sub-world champion Aroldis Chapman did instead, though both are pillars in the team.
The game fulfilled expectations for followers of the provincial selection with only one defeat in six matches. The main course, the left-handed pitcher Chapman's 10 strikeouts; the best, the two homeruns by Leris Aguilera that helped score seven out of eight runs.

Leris Aguilera's first home run.

Pitcher Rolando Mella closed spectacularly and Holguin is glad with the team’s winning string.
Luis Miguel Rodriguez is expected today at the pitching hill.

The Báguano's Count, as they call him too, was granted before the game started, the Dignity's Microphone (micrófono de la Dignidad), an award from the Provincial Radio Stations Board in Holguín to personalities from different fields.