Tigers and Crocodiles dominate the top of the National Baseball Series

Matanzas and Ciego de Ávila still tied for first place in the Cuban baseball championship, to emerge unscathed on Thursday in their respective commitments to Granma and Las Tunas.

Jonder Martinez worked six innings and two thirds to rate eight strikeouts and allowed only four hits, to guide current national runners to win 6-1 on Alazanes with offensive highlight of Yasiel Santoya, 3-2 with a homer and three trailers.

Also, the Tigers deployed artillery attack Avilanians 12 hits, including two separate runs of Yorelvis Charles, Yorbis Borroto and Humberto Morales, in 11-5 victory over the Loggers Las Tunas, with credit from the mound to the right-hander Osmar Carrero .

Santiago de Cuba crisis accentuated the current monarchs of Pinar del Río to overcome them by a wide margin of 9-1, with the first win rookie Yoandri Montero and tree prominence in hand Alexei Bell and Daniel Aguilera, authors of a homer per capita for the cause of the winners.

Special mention for the Pinar del Rio astro Yosvani Torres, the most valuable of the previous season-who filed his third failure of just allowing eight hits and four earned runs in seven innings of work, and still taste the sweet nectar of victory.

In the other evening results exceeded 5-3 Artemis Guantanamo and Holguin 10-5 Cienfuegos, Mayabeque and Isla de la Juventud sealed with four tie in episode 13 Industriales and Villa Clara were imposed to Sancti Spiritus and Camaguey to close the day.