Lumberjacks go for their second title

The Leñadores (Lumberjaks) from Las Tunas will go for their second Cuban title, backed by the three consecutive podiums they accumulate in the National Baseball Series, and by the hand of star figures such as Dánel Castro, the Yosvani and Yordanis Alarcón brothers, besides the pitchers Carlos Juan Viera, Yudiel Rodríguez and Yoalkis Cruz.

Pitcher Alejandro Meneses

In the midst of all the feverish hustle and bustle that the Julio Antonio Mella Stadium is experiencing right now with the training of the Leñadores (Lumberjacks), pitcher Alejandro Meneses is perhaps the happiest of all, after an injury to his pitching arm forced him to stop two long years.

Lumberjacks are training

Luis Antonio Pérez Hemmings was included in the Talent Development Program of the Cuban baseball, after the national methodologist Fránger Reynaldo saw him on the ground and considered his skills sufficient to belong to the elite of Island’s young prospects.

The first secretary of the PCC in Las Tunas talks to baseball star Dánel Castro Muñagorry

The resuming of the school year and the preparation of the baseball team for the 60th Cuban National Series is among the priorities of the sports movement in this eastern Cuban province, s it was learned during an exchange between the first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party here, Manuel René Pérez Gallego, and managers of the sector and, especially, wit the athletes of the preselection of the Leñadores (Lumberjacks) for the upcoming 2020-2021 season.

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The joy of being back on the baseball fields is the most palpable feeling right now at the Julio Antonio Mella Stadium, where Pablo Alberto Civil's version 4.0 of Lumberjacks started the engines this week.