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Havana, Jul 13 (ACN) The semifinal duel of the 63rd National Baseball Series between Vegueros de Pinar del Río and Leones de Industriales, known as the western classic, arrives today to the capital's Latin American Stadium with the series 2-0 in favor of the visitors.

A pair of victories, both decided by a difference of one run, filed those from the land of the best tobacco in the world in their headquarters of Capitan San Luis, before a crowd that broke all the attendance records of the season.

The yellow-green troop imposed its favoritism after dominating the regular phase with 50 victories in 75 games, registering a new home run record for this structure and defeating all its rivals in the private duels.

The felines, although they showed grit against a superior team, exhibited deficiencies in base running and committed four errors in the field that took their toll.

For this challenge, blue strategist Guillermo Carmona announced Maykel Taylor, who has already pitched six innings against his opponents this season with a couple of clean sheets, but left without a decision.

In these playoffs, the right-hander, who plays in independent leagues in Mexico and Canada, has only accepted one clean run in 17.2 episodes and was the winner of the last game that marked the famous historic comeback against Santiago de Cuba in the quarterfinals.

Alexander Urquiola's Vegueros will depend on the mound of 41-year-old veteran Bladimir Baños, the fifth Pinar del Río native with the most wins in our domestic championships with 152.

The also right-handed pitcher has one loss in these playoffs, although he has only been given three clean sheets in 10.2 chapters of work.

According to the National Commission of this sport, both today's game and tomorrow Sunday's will start at 6:30 p.m.