Pinar del Rio pounded defending Cuban National Series champion Santiago de Cuba, 12-3, on November 30 in the league’s season opener. Starter Yuniesky Maya gave Pinar 5.1 solid innings of pitching, while Donald Duarte reached base all five times he strode to the plate (including an inside-the-park home run).
Maya retired ten consecutive batters at one point en route to breaking Pinar’s ten-game regular season losing streak to Santiago, whose ace Norge Vera was clobbered by the Pinar batsmen, allowing eight runs before leaving the contest with the bases loaded and two out in the sixth inning. Last season’s MVP, Santiago’s Alexei Bell, had to leave the game for X-rays after being struck in the face by a Maya pitch in the first inning. Bell smashed 31 homers and drove in 111 runs last winter, but his untimely exit was indicative of what kind of night it was for Santiago, who lost their first opener in four years.
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