Lastly, Game 6 of the Campeonato Nacional Puertorriqueño is out!
Yes, the 🦜 #CotorrasRGE win it in six—the first non-sweep since 1902.
Yes, Carmelo Castillo pitches a gem, like La Llamarada usually does.
But the hero here is 🤝 Eunosto Gutiérrez. You should watch it for him:
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We're live, playing Game 6 of the 1906 Campeonato Nacional Puertorriqueño! Both the 🤝 #AmigosGUC and the 🦜 #CotorrasRGE have sent their southpaw aces to the mound.
Will the Buenos pull a rabbit from the hat, or will La Llamarada and the Multicolores prove too much?
Come watch!
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If there's one set of Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña games we want to make sure everyone can watch, it's the Campeonato Nacional.
The 1906 edition is a classic. Will the dominant 🦜 #CotorrasRGE take it, or will the plucky 🤝 #AmigosGUC best another overdog?
Game 1:
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As we enter the seventh inning:
5 🦜 #CotorrasRGE
3 🤝 #AmigosGUC
Guánica turned an error and a bad block into three runs—but 38-year-old 🇨🇺 Marcos Michaca had other ideas. The Cotos pull ahead and *still* continue to chip away at the Amigos!
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As we enter the fourth inning:
1 🦜 #CotorrasRGE
0 🤝 #AmigosGUC
Of course the Pajaritos are already leading. Of course Tito Alvarado has already stolen two bases. Their rainbow magic has been with them for four rounds. Why would it stop now?
Can Guánica bloody them a bit?
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Update:
It'll be the 🦜 #CotorrasRGE, whose loaded rotation just barely got them out of the Bird Bowl, against the plucky 89-79 🤝 #AmigosGUC.
Phils fans will find Guánica's uniforms particularly familiar—and all neutral fans will cheer with them.
fun still begins at 7:05 PM EDT
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As we enter the 4th inning:
1 🦜 #CotorrasRGE
1 🍞 #CuervosPAT
Called-up prospect 🇨🇦 Bryan Feightner ripped an RBI single to tie the game for La Esmeralda. Can they hold the Multicolores here?
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A slide for tomorrow's stream, the Campeonato de Liga Betances, between the orange-and-green Cotorras (Parrots) de Río Grande and the purple-and-sky Cuervos (Crows) de Patillas. Río Grande's lineup for June 27th's Game 1, behind Carmelo Castillo (nicknamed "La Llamarada"): switchy DH Jorge Estrada, CF Cosme Tejeda, switchy 1B Jesús Torres, LF Alarico "Amiguito" Sauceda, RF Raúl "Francés" Alzate, lefty catcher Rafael Zepeda, English shortstop Sam Rigby, 2B Tito "La Tarántula" Alvarado, and Irish 3B Reilly O'Sullivan. Patillas' lineup, behind Rubén Meza: lefty CF Diego Murillo, Canadian 2B Bryan Feightner, LF Buenaventura "Ají" Urrutia, RF Luis Flores, lefty DH Santiago Tinajero, catcher Elías Luévano, 1B Aquiles Gabaldón, Ghanaian 3B Kwame "Abrumador" Mafole, and shortstop Adelmo Vázquez.
6/27:
It's an all-Eastern #BirdBowl between the 🦜 #CotorrasRGE, who haven't won a pennant since 1873, and the 🍞 #CuervosPAT, who have never played for it.
If those stakes weren't high enough, by the way, neither team has lost in the 1906 playoffs.
Fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT:
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Game 46:
We can only imagine what Balloon thought as his teammates dismantled the 🦜 #CotorrasRGE in front of him, putting up 20 hits and 17 runs without a single stolen base.
Every starter got one hit; only 🇵🇷 Santiago and 🇦🇷 Stonehand failed to get at least two.
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Game 45:
When 🇯🇲 Stack left the game in the eighth, he'd allowed the first run of the game—unearned—to the 🦜 #CotorrasRGE, and 🇹🇳 Anbar promptly secured two outs to extinguish the threat.
A 3-hit game from 🇵🇷 Valdez and a 3-run one from 🇵🇷 Santiago did the rest.
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Pitchers with multiple 15-K games in the 20th century:
🇵🇷 Ezequiel Vásquez, 🦜 #CotorrasRGE: 9
🇵🇷 Efraín Calderón, 🎣 #PescadoresSAL: 5
🇵🇷 Carmelo "La Llamarada" Castillo, 🦜 #CotorrasRGE: 3
In this Boletín de Turno:
- the 🧭 #NavegadoresNAG face their Eastern rivals 🐟 #PicudosCEI and 🦜 #CotorrasRGE, as well as the 🐐 #ChupacabrasCAN and 🔨 #MartillerosVGA;
- 🇦🇺 Wally "The Human Ripcord" Balk breaks an important record;
- we find the most incompetent fielder in the LNP.
Read on:
1904/09/16:
Literally *one* day later, Carmelo "La Llamarada" Castillo puts up a second 15-K regulation game for the 1904 🦜 #CotorrasRGE.
Since 1901, exactly two pitchers have struck out 15 hitters in 9 innings, both have been in 1904, and best of all, they're teammates.
1904/09/15:
Just over a week later, and with the Betances El Yunque division in the bag, Ezequiel Vásquez puts up another 15-K game for the 1904 🦜 #CotorrasRGE.
He's at 376 K on the year—100 more than the runner-up.
The man is 21. We're going to be seeing this for a long time.
What's particularly funny is that there have been four other 15-strikeout games in 1904, but only one was in the regulation nine.
The pitcher for that one? Vásquez's 🦜 #CotorrasRGE teammate, Carmelo Castillo—"La Llamarada" ("The Blaze")—who is himself on pace for a 301-K season.
Other shutouts on Day 1:
🇵🇷 LHP Rafa García, 🧀 #QuesiterosISA
🇶🇦 RHP Boulos Haroun, 🐎 #CorcelesSIS
🇨🇦 RHP Pierre Lemieux, ⚓️ #GuardacostasCAT
🇵🇷 RHP Basilio Martínez, 🪄 #HechicerosGUM
🇮🇪 RHP Kane O'Leary, 🐟 #PicudosCEI
🇵🇷 RHP Ezequiel Vásquez, 🦜 #CotorrasRGE
Luis García #1 (1871-79):
3rd-round pick of the #CotorrasRGE 🦜 during La Selección. He had exactly one career homer in 1,319 at-bats, 2.5 WAR in 461 games, and managed his best statline in 1878, when he was 37 and got only 21 PA.
Granted, he was a pretty skilled defensive 1B, but: who cares?
