Colombia missed a timely hit

Colombia returns from its third World Classic contest feeling that the appropriate at-bat did not come, and the pitching, which was labeled as the ‘Achilles’ heel’ as they lacked veteran starters in the Majors, José Quintana and Julio Tehran, got up and obeyed .
The pitching staff left hopes for the future and especially for mighty weapons like Guillermo Zúñiga, the closing star against Mexico, with deliveries over 100 miles, and the only national victory in the game was accredited.

Colombia’s offensive numbers show that it didn’t match: in 130 teams with 15 players, the ninth team had 25 hits, scored 12 runs off the legs of seven runners and 36 runners reached base. The Colombian collective offensive average was .240, which was only above the batting average of the also eliminated teams from Nicaragua (.284), China (.254) and Israel (.243). The same average occupied his “bullpen.”
Colombia’s starters and relievers forced 41 groundouts, surpassed only by Cuba (60) and Italy (46) in this part of the stats. Daniel Mavárez, a scout for the San Francisco Giants in Colombia, said there was no pitcher with a hierarchy. “I had no pitching staff. And that’s what it takes to win games.”
In the debut against Mexico, when Jolbert Alexis Cabrera’s group got involved in the game, using their defensive assets and firing cannonballs, against Great Britain they left four players waiting for the trailer and dominated with ground balls that hit two caused double plays.
Colombians and British hit 7 hits during the match and committed two errors in the Europeans’ win 7 runs for 5. Throughout the tournament, the national artillery hit five times in double plays.
In its third appearance against Canada, Colombia tied offensively despite five isolated hits in a 5-0 shutout. In that game, Urshela was the only one waiting to be dealt to the rubber.
Édinson Rentería, promoter of baseball players with his academy from Miami, United States, added that the team did not adjust the combinations. “The pitchers and batters sometimes didn’t react and there was also a lack of action in situations with some substitutions. You see it from the outside, but from the inside it’s best to ask. The team should have benefited from Great Britain and Canada, although there is no big team. I saw it years ago in baseball. That is behind us and we have to play”.
Daniel Mavárez emphasized that the goal was missing to push points. “Unfortunately I saw an offensive slump with Gio Urshela, Harold Ramírez and Jordan Díaz central to the attack. There were up and down moments for Jorge Alfaro and Reinaldo Rodríguez. They were the men who set the tone. The most prominent was Óscar Mercado, and there was no ‘teamwork’. That cost Colombia.”