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There has been no shortage of drama in the Caribbean Series. As if it were the script extracted from a feature film, Angel Padron delivered one of the most glorious pages in the history of the competition and pitched a no hit, no run in the Loan Depot Park facilities in Miami, to sign a feat that had only happened in 1952 when Cerveceria Caracas was passed by the arms in nine innings. That courtesy of Tommy Fine for the Havana Reds was the only time it had ever happened...until yesterday. Let's go by parts Who is Angel Padron? A reliever let go by the Boston Red Sox in 2019. He's only 26 years old, but for some reason major league organizations didn't defend his chance to show what he had. Some ballplayers mature late. And how does a reliever get the ball to open a game? Well, the starter had a sore arm and as has been the constant (remember the game against Puerto Rico), the manager Oswaldo Guillen appealed to the bullpen.
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A reliever is a type of pitcher who is effective from about 30 pitches (in the case of a closer or a holder) and up to 60 pitches (long reliever). The latter is Angel's case, so Guillen would ask for him between 4 and 5 episodes. From then on, the relief corps would take over. But here is where providence can be portentous. It is no secret that the Caribbean Series is watched by Major League scouts and players give their best effort if they do not have a contract in the majors. As it was, Padrón went out to the mound to give the best of himself. And he did. He combined straights, sinkers and curves to tie up Nicaragua's pitching staff. We had already said that they were the weakest team, but that is no guarantee to see a no hitter. Statistically it is almost impossible to see a no-hitter in a tournament of this type, mainly because the players don't know each other. So it's hard to know which pitch hurts the opponent in turn. That didn't matter. Angel ate up innings one after another helped by the defense. Especially, that of Ramon Flores in center, who decapitated two lines that could have been hits.
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The Sharks broke the scoreless fourth inning and added single runs in subsequent innings to push the lead to four runs. But in the eighth inning two things happened. Opening the inning, Angel allowed the only run to the Nicaraguans, breaking the perfect game by giving away a base on balls. Nothing that the defense did not fix one batter later, with a double kill. And at the end of that episode, the squalos mounted the usual ambush and scored five runs to make the game 9-0. And when the last Nicaraguan batter hit a grounder past the shortstop for the final out of the game, the Loan Depot Park bleachers erupted in frenzy as they watched a feat accomplished as if it had happened in Venezuela. Given the large community of countrymen living in Miami, the Sharks have always felt local. And justice prevailed for a pitcher whom the major leagues had objected to. No more, that man is sure to receive an invitation to spring training camps. It's the right thing to do. Baseball is poetry.
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