Tigres Tales

Since last report, Aragua is 2-2.

Quick summaries:

Thursday: Aragua 7, Magallanes 0. Wilson Ramos had two hits and drove in three runs.

Friday: Aragua 9, Magallanes 7. Yangervis Solarte was 2-for-3 with two doubles and two walks and scored four times.

Saturday: Margarita 7, Aragua 1. Wilson Ramos went 2-for 4.

Sunday:  Lara 6, Aragua 0.  Jason Jones pitced a scoreless inning of relief.

Aragua is off today.  More detail on each game follows after the jump:

Thursday

Six Aragua batters had two hits apiece and four pitchers held Magallanes to four hits as the Tigres defeated Magallanes 7-0.

Wilson Ramos was 2-for-5 with a double, driving in three.  Yangervis Solarte has apparently joined Aragua; he went 2-for-4.  Ex-Twin Luis Maza was 2-for-4 with a triple.  Ex-Twin Michael Ryan was 2-for-3 for Magallanes.

No Twins pitchers were used.  Seth Etherton got the win, giving up only four hits in six shutout innings.  Larry Suarez (Cubs) took the loss for Magallanes.

Friday

Magallanes out-hit Aragua 16-8, but the Tigres came away with a 9-7 win over Magallanes.  Aragua was aided by nine walks.

Yangervis Solarte was 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles and scored four times.  Hector Gimenez was 2-for-4 with a homer and three RBIs.  Wilson Ramos was 1-for-4 with a walk and an RBI.  Dustin Martin was o-for-4 with a walk.  Luis Landaeta and Erold Andrus each had three hits for Magallanes.

No Twins pitchers appeared.  Josh Ellis (Arizona) got the win with two shutout innings of relief, striking out three.  Victor Moreno also pitched two shutout innings of relief to get the save.  Victor Zambrano gave up five runs (three earned) on three hits and six walks in three innings to take the loss for Magallanes.  The game took four hours and four minutes to play.

Saturday

Margarita scored four in the ninth to put away a 7-1 victory over Aragua.

Margarita had five players with two hits apiece.  Frank Diaz had a homer and three RBIs, Francisco Leandro hit a pair of doubles, and Carlos Leon scored three times.  Wilson Ramos was the only Tigres player with two hits, going 2-for-4.  Yangervis Solarte was 0-for-4.  Dustin Martin was used as a pinch-hitter and walked.

Ex-Twin Yohan Pino took the loss, giving up two runs on five hits in five innings.  Frank Mata pitched only a third of an inning, giving up a run on two hits.  Tim Harikkala got the win with six shutout innings, giving up only three hits.

Sunday

Robert Perez had four hits for Lara, one fewer than the entire Aragua team, as Lara defeated the Tigres 6-0.

Chris Carter was the only Aragua player with two hits, going 2-for-3.  Dustin Martin was 0-for-2 with two walks, and Yangervis Solarte was 0-for-4 with a walk.

Starter Wilfredo Ledezma took the loss, giving up all six runs (three earned) in 4.2 innings.  Jason Jones pitched the ninth, surrendering two hits but no runs.  Jose Santiago pitched six scoreless innings, giving up four hits, to get the win.

Aragua is off today.  They travel to La Guaira Tuesday night.