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Rimini has won game one of the Italian Baseball Series. The Pirates scored three runs in the top of the 11th inning to edge out defending champion T&A San Marino 4-1, taking a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five series. Game two follows on Saturday.
After both teams scored once in the second neither team scored again until the 11th. James Buccheri broke up the tie with a RBI single. Leonardo Zileri followed with a two-run double to seal the deal for Rimini.
Enorbel Marquez-Ramirez earned the win with 5 2/3 innings of scoreless three-hit, one-walk relief. Darwin Cubilan took the loss. Starters Yorman Bazardo and Jim Magrane had given up one run in 5 1/3 respective seven innings.
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