Cardenales de Lara is the new champion of the LVBP

Published at: 26/01/2025 11:20 PM

Cardenales de Lara completed the comeback and won four consecutive games to beat Bravos de Margarita in the Grand Final of 2024-25, thus obtaining the seventh pennant in their history in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP).

The final score of the sixth game at Antonio Herrera Gutierrez de Barquisimeto was 9-0.

According to the newspaper Líder en Deportes, the “red birds” quickly attacked Bravo's starter and reinforcement, the right-hander Jesús Vargas, with two runs in the first home run episode of Rangel Ravelo and five in Hernán Pérez's second double product, singles by Gorkys Hernández, Harold Castro, Ravelo and a sacrifice shot by Eduardo García, who one inning later took it out to Werner Leal, to bring two more to the rubber, to sentence the scoreboard once and for all and to make Cardener's journey joyful Ales to the title.

Adrián Almeida, who was only able to score two outs in his first outing, took the victory after throwing 5.1 innings in which he allowed three hits, the same number of passports and struck out five opponents. The loser was Jesús Vargas (3-4). Despite having no chance of being saved, Arnaldo Hernández retired the last three outs that sparked the uproar in the capital of Larense.

With this title, Cardenales breaks the tie he had with Águilas del Zulia, of six each. And now he is placed alone in the fifth place, behind Tiburones (8), Tigres (10), Magallanes (13) and Leones (21).

Mazo News Team