Latin-American Festival In the MLB Wounding

By Stephen Lars

A Latin-American festival in the offensive exploded the at the end week in the baseball of the Major Leagues, with articulate distinctive for the Mexican Adrián González (Padres) and Evan Longoria (Tampa Bay), as well as the Puerto Rican Ben Molina (Giants) and the Panamanian Carlos Shelter (Astros).

Molina finished the extreme seven days with a mere eminent sample of. 651 (23-15) a home run and six double, as well as with nine runs, while the Panamanian Lee, although batted for a bad off 'average' of. 240 connected two hits and achieved 12 annotations, the greater abundance in that journey for a player of the region.

The Mexicans González and Longoria had an on week with the bat upon averaging. 333 (30-10) the head one and. 320 (25-8) the second, with three internal runs and 10 runs each one.

The Venezuelan Magglio Ordóñez (Tigers) and Bobby Abreu (Yankees), the Dominican Robinson Canó (Yankees) and Aramís Ramírez (Cubs), the also Mexican Jorge Cantú (Marlins) and the pitcher Sidney Ponson (Rangers) they had seven spectacular days in their respective functions.

Ordóñez finished with average of. 459 (24-11), Abreu .391 (23-9), Canó .409 (22-9), Ramírez. 409 (27-11) and Cantú. 318 (22-7), while Ponson (3-0) was the apart pitcher with a triumph against the Twins, to the ones that left in six hits and a gallop with five punches.

Ordóñez also launched three home runs and pushed nine men for the imitation and his countryman Abreu very launched a ball gone of the park.

Ramírez shot two homely runs and managed eight annotations; although did not remove the ball beyond the wall, hit five doubles, three of them in a play.

Other noticable offensively were the also Dominican Adrián Beltré (Mariners) and Carlos Peña (Tampa Bay Rays), the Venezuelan Carlos Guillén and the Colombian Edgar Rentería, the two latest of the Tigers.

Beltré averaged. 333 (24-8), two home runs and six runs, Peña averaged .315 (19-6) with a hit and six runs, Guillén averaged .391 (23-9) with two home runs and five runs and Rentería .436 (16-7) with a hit and six runs.

Among the pitchers also excelled the Puerto Rican Javier Vázquez (White sox), the Cuban José Contreras (White Sox) and the Venezuelan Carlos Zambrano (Cubs) and Francisco Rodriguez (Angels).

Vázquez (5-3) defeated the Indians in seven good innings, in which achieved four unstoppable hits, two careers and seven punches, while Zambrano (7-1) did it on the Pirates, to the ones that left with two annotations and six hits in seven acts.

The Cuban Contreras (5-3) achieved a victory in the week against the Indians and went without decision Sunday before the Angels in another estimable pitching work.

The Venezuelan Zambrano worked on the full 14 innings with alone three runs and seven hits, besides distributing 14 punches and to descend hiss standard since 3.17 to 3.06.

While Francisco Rodriguez achieved four catches in the week with four innings without runs, in which he achieved four hits and punched three men, to extent the 21 catches record in both Leagues.

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