In the fifth inning South Africa moved the bullpen, the manager did not allow O'Brien to return to the mound and brought in Mohamed to pitch. In spite of the change of pitcher, the out of control continued in a curious episode, since Armando Arias reached the cushion for a ticket, César Izturis got on base for a single and Mendoza missed a bunt prepared for the first pitch, which allowed the catcher to react quickly sending the ball to second to place the runner out, but due to the fact that the pitch was not very good, he managed to save himself, however, after watching the replay of the transmission, it was verified that it was a walk off, as they would say over there. Finally the South African manager paid dearly for his naivety in not requesting the review, as Mendoza would later fail in his mission, but thanks to Garcia's hawk eye that did not fail to request a review on a double play, he left the inning more alive than ever, with runners on first and third with only one out. A sacrifice fly by Kenedy Coronado brought in the fourth run, a double by Jesus Chirinos drove in the fifth and Amador Arias with a hit to the rigth filder drove in the sixth.

In the sixth inning, the South African manager tried to stop the Venezuelan offense by changing the pitcher again, but the play failed again, as Alfonzo received Maritz with a double and the defense failed again after a Jeferson Morales' ground ball that the third baseman failed to send correctly to the first base, to put the 0-7 on the Taiwanese board. Michael Chirinos brought in the eighth run with the help of the second baseman who failed to field the ball. As if it was something we had seen before, the pitcher got out of control and after a wild pitch allowed the runner to advance, to be later taken to the plate with a single by Arias. The coach after so many errors got up to talk to his pitcher and he responded to his confidence by retiring the three Venezuelan batters that followed.

In the seventh and last episode, Wentzel cut the perfect game of the Venezuelan starter with a single, the only hit of his team in the whole game. After this hit, Carlos García took the ball away from Wentzel to celebrate with his teammates, leaving the job of closing the victory to Juan Querecuto, who responded in a good way, getting the last two outs.

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Breve análisis

Lo del abridor venezolano fue fenomenal, una victoria que permite agarrar confianza en un mundial que estará mucho más difícil a partir de ahora, ya que la selección del sur de África no demostró ser un buen termómetro para medir el nivel de la selección. Esperemos que el día de mañana Japón y Venezuela nos regalen un duelo más parejo.

Brief analysis

The Venezuelan opener was phenomenal, a victory that allows us to gain confidence in a World Cup that will be much more difficult from now on, since the South African team did not prove to be a good thermometer to measure the level of the national team. Let's hope that tomorrow Japan and Venezuela will give us a more even match.

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