Panama defeats Mexico 5-2 in baseball at Central American Games

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Panama defeats Mexico 5-2 in baseball at Central American Games

Thu, 07/26/2018 - 14:08

Panama defeated Mexico 5-2 of the Central American and Caribbean Games baseball tournament on Wednesday.

Gerald Chin led Panama's victory with three hits from his four attempts, including one run and two RBIs.

Winning pitcher for Panama, Luis Ramos, threw four innings, allowing three hits and a strikeout.

The Central American and Caribbean Games arise due to the initiative of the Mexican Olympic Society, who after the poor performance of Mexico in the Olympic Games in Paris, in 1924, decided to organize a multi-sport event between Central American countries, so that the sport of these nations increase your competitive level. Cuba and Guatemala supported the project, and Mexicans Alfredo Cuéllar and Enrique Aguirre negotiated with the IOC to obtain the endorsement of the Committee; the act of creation of the games was signed in Paris on July 4, 1924, making this the oldest regional competition endorsed by the IOC.

Already on October 16, 1925, delegates from the nations of Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Jamaica, El Salvador, Haiti, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, the Dominican Republic - as a guest - and Cuba met in the City of Mexico, to design the origin of the first Central American tournament, of such a meeting it was decided to grant the venue of the opening event of these games to Mexico City, with a date of celebration between October 12 and November 2, 1926.;

Part of the Cuba team that won the fourth title in a row for the country in the Central American Games in Panama in 1938.

 

 

http://www.panamatoday.com/sports/panama-defeats-mexico-5-2-baseball-central-american-games-7409