Cuban Raidel Martínez reaches 32 saves in Japanese baseball

August 19, 2024

According to the www.jit.cu website at the Vantelin Dome in Nagoya, the right-hander from the Cuban province of Pinar del Río struck out one of the three batters he faced in an inning of work.

In this way he improved his earned run average to 1.19 and tied for the lead in saves in the Central League with the right-hander from the Hiroshima Carp, Ryoji Kuribayashi.

Martínez's performance this season borders on excellence as in 45.1 innings he has allowed just 25 hits with six earned runs, in addition to displaying 42 strikeouts, 10 walks and one win.

The right-hander from Pinar has appeared in 33 of the 45 victories of the Chunichi Dragons, a team enrolled in one of its worst campaigns as it occupies the sixth and second-to-last place in the Central League with 57 losses and seven ties, the media outlet details.

In another game with Cuban presence, Orix Buffaloes defeated Nippon Ham Fighters 5-1, a team in which the starter from Matanzas Ariel Martínez went hitless in four attempts to lower his batting average to .232.