Parma, one valid is enough to see the championship » Baseball.it

We left off at the end of game two with the stuttering performance of the Italian pitchers, we find ourselves in a game three extraordinarily thrown by two great pitchers. The outcome is the same, because Parma wins again (2-0) and moves to 3-0 in the series, one step away from that championship that has been missing for 14 years. First of all we must give credit to the two pitchers, Erly Casanova and Siso Lage. For five complete innings they both threw a no-hitter, both closed with 9 strikeouts, the starter of Parma put the opposing first batter on base in the fifth inning and San Marino never reached third. The starter of the Titans suffered only one valid, however decisive, at the end of the sixth inning.

Parma finds itself with the bases loaded right at the start (with the usual two bunts) but Mineo stays at the plate, then Lage recovers and puts out 13 in a row. Casanova matches him, 13 outs without a break at the rate of “one-two-three” before conceding a base to Batista. It’s easy to understand that the first to give up will lose the game. And the decisive moment, for both, comes in the sixth inning. Lage puts the heart of the Parmaclima lineup on base, with two bases for the Gonzalez while Liddi is hit, the “kappa” on Astorri is worth the second out and since a pitcher who hasn’t yet had any hits (even though he’s almost 100 pitches) isn’t removed from the mound, the San Marino staff decides to keep Lage on the plate. With two strikes and one ball, Encarnacion breaks the no-hit on Lage in one go, moves the score for the first time and gives the game to Parma. Because Casanova, despite his first hits given to Di Fabio and Tromp, leaves Ferrini at the plate and in the seventh inning, with a runner on first, it is still Diaz who scares the people of Parma but his fly ball falls prey to Battioni’s glove.

Two considerations. Parma has won three games with three key hits: Desimoni’s triple in the fifth inning of game one, Luis Gonzalez’s half-double in the sixth inning of game two and Encarnacion’s single tonight. While San Marino in the two games against top-level pitchers, has only touched 5 hits in 14 innings. Now the titans have their backs to the wall, it will be up to Centeno tomorrow night to reverse a negative trend that has lasted for seven games in the final after the “overthrow” suffered in the final last year against Bologna. Parma, on the other hand, is one step away from the dream, provided that the “little arm” does not become dangerously short again like in the series against Macerata.

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