Venezuelan Baseball Festival
Venezuelan Baseball Festival

Latin-american Festival in the Mlb Offensive
A Latin-American festival in the offensive exploded the last week in the baseball of the Major Leagues, with emphasize special for the Mexican Adrián González (Padres) and Evan Longoria (Tampa Bay), as well as the Puerto Rican Ben Molina (Giants) and the Panamanian Carlos Lee (Astros).
Molina finished the last seven days with a very high average of. 651 (23-15) a home run and six double, as well as with nine runs, while the Panamanian Lee, although batted for a poor ‘average’ of. 240 connected two hits and achieved 12 annotations, the greater quantity 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 first one and. 320 (25-8) the second, with three home 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 only pitcher with a triumph against the Twins, to the ones that left in six hits and a run with five punches.
Ordóñez also launched three home runs and pushed nine men for the base and his countryman Abreu also launched a ball out of the park.
Ramírez shot two home runs and managed eight annotations; although did not remove the ball beyond the wall, hit five doubles, three of them in a play.
Other noticeable 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 last 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 excellent pitching work.
The Venezuelan Zambrano worked on the whole 14 innings with alone three runs and seven hits, besides distributing 14 punches and to descend hiss average 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 reach the 21 catches record in both Leagues.
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