Puerto Rico celebrates 10th inning victory over Venezuela (Photo courtesy of Jorge A. Ramírez Portela/META)

Mayagüez, PR: It reminded me of a World Baseball Classic Game between two countries that are baseball driven, Venezuela & Puerto Rico. This was also the first game in the new multi-million dollar stadium that replaced the old Los Indios (Indians) stadium. Thus, every Mayagüez baseball lover was out in force to attend this game. The stadium was full to capacity of 10,000 fans and there must have been another 2,000 outside that the fire department and police was literally holding off from storming the gates to enter.

The excitement was there as the majority of the fans were all Puerto Rico and in a baseball frenzy when their team went ahead in this tight game by a score of 2-0 in the bottom of the third. Venezuela chipped away and tied the score at 2-2 until the bottom of the 10th when an erratic throw to third by Venezuela's pitcher, Edgar Martínez to third allowed Puerto Rico's lead runner, Irving Falú to score and gave Puerto Rico and the island a very exciting victory of 3-0

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