Rovigo was just one win away from securing first place in group C and qualifying for the play-offs. And Itas Mutua obtained it in a disruptive way yesterday afternoon on the Crocetta diamond (2-16). A shock from the Emilians, with two points in the second inning, but then the Rovigo line-up takes center stage and overtakes in the third, extends between the fifth and sixth and spreads in the eighth with five batters hitting three hits each and six extra bases. Great match in the evening (4-2 Crocetta) with the back and forth at the start then Carrillo in the role of relief takes control of the match decided by Farma’s three points in the eighth with a triple from Covati and a double from Matteo Gerali.
New Rimini has four consecutive victories, and on a Saturday without any particular worries, they beat Cagliari twice (3-12, 8-9). The first victory of the Romagnoli was authoritative, directing the game with 8 points in the first three innings and with the heart of the line-up (Chacon, Baccelli, Gabrielli) producing 9 of the 12 team hits. The Sardinians had a jolt in game two, where the pitchers were repeatedly ‘met’ by the two boxes (29 hits in total). Here too, New Rimini made its voice heard with two big innings of 4 points (three hits each for Chacon, Gabrielli and Bonemei), Cagliari had the strength to reopen it in the eighth but stopped at 8-9.
Theoretically the first phase of New Rimini is not over because the recovery match would have to be played on the Ronchi diamond (will it be played?) which impacted Padova on Saturday. Two games with a totally different flow, with Gereon dominating the afternoon in the score of 14: the points, hits and strike-outs scored by the Dalla Silvestra-Bazzarini duo and the icing on the cake Bertoldi’s home run. In the evening Padova won with Tuzzi’s single in the third inning, then Martinez and Smaniotto took care of it and conceded only three hits to the “panthers” line-up.
Carlo Ravegnani, born in Rimini on January 31, 1968, began his career in journalism at the age of 20 in the then Gazzetta di Rimini, “replaced” in 1993 by the current Corriere Romagna where he works as a sports editor. A collaborator for the Rimini area of the Corriere dello Sport-Stadio, baseball has been a fundamental component in his life: first a fan in the stands of the Stadio dei Pirati, then a player in the legendary Parco Marecchia and then in Rimini 86, a company he founded together with a group of diehard friends. Then a journalist of the bat and run on his own newspaper and some occasional collaborations with specialized magazines as well as radio commentator of the Pirati games together with his friend and colleague Andrea Perari. In recent years he also began his managerial career, with the presidency (since 2014) of the Falcons Torre Pedrera. The passion has been passed down to his son Riccardo who plays pitcher and first base for the same Falcons.
