He reached that figure in a match against Industriales. The penultimate specific sub-series concluded

Enrolled in another excellent season, the reliever Yunier Batista today credited himself with his tenth victory in the 9×5 game of Ciego de Ávila against Industriales, as the close of the penultimate specific match-ups of the 64th National Baseball Series.

Batista, the first pitcher to reach the mentioned figure, barely allowed two hits with four strikeouts in 4.0 innings of action, and prevented the blue lions from celebrating their qualification to the postseason this Sunday.

In another of the duels, Matanzas defeated Granma 3×0 and achieved its fourth consecutive success to come within 1.5 games of the tournament summit held by the reigning champion Las Tunas.

Roilán Averohff proved impassable with his fastballs, supported by breaking pitches, and only accepted four hits in 6.2 episodes. Once again, Silvio Iturralde pitched another effective relief of 2.1 episodes and signed his fourth save.

Cienfuegos defeated Las Tunas 13×7 and broke a streak of six successive victories. For the southerners, Richel López and Inasay Ramírez drove in three runs each and in a losing cause, Yudier Rondón hit a pair of home runs.

In other results, Santiago de Cuba overcame Mayabeque 10×8 and Sancti Spíritus knocked out Guantánamo 11×1 to complete the sweep.

Furthermore, Isla de la Juventud won the fourth game of the subseries against Holguín (5×3), Villa Clara prevailed in extra innings 8×6 against Artemisa and Pinar del Río inflicted a super knockout of 19×3 on Camagüey.