T&A San Marino – Telemarket Rimini 4-7
Telemarket Rimini has won game one of a three-game series 7-4 against T&A San Marino on Thursday evening. After Riccardo Babini broke a 2-2 tie with a sac fly in the seventh, the Pirates scored four runs in the eighth to blow the contest open. Joe Persichina, Riccardo Suardi and Filippo Crociati had two RBI apiece. Francesco Imperiali had a two-run double in the bottom of the ninth, but later got picked off at second base to end the game with the tying run at the plate. Starting pitchers Francisco Cruceta (W, 12 Ks in 7 IP) and Rodney Rodriguez (SMA, 10 Ks in 6 IP) dominated early on. Yulman Ribeiro took the loss.