It was another night in the Mexican Winter League playoffs and another good performance from Marquez Smith. Smith’s team fell 5-1 and saw their series become tied at 2-2 in the best of seven. Smith, playing first base on the night, went 2-4 and accounted for a third of his teams hits.
He’s been batting seventh in the lineup for Jalisco, but he’s hitting .333/.419/.593 in the playoffs thus far and perhaps his team could see some benefit from moving him up in the order and riding his hot bat before it’s too late.
Down in Puerto Rico, Neftali Soto went 1-4 on Wednesday night in a Santurce win. In the first inning he came up with two outs and a runner on first down by a run and doubled in the tying run and he later scored the go-ahead run, a lead his team never gave back.
After the win for Santurce they now have the best record among the Puerto Rican teams in the round robin playoff, one game ahead of Mayaguez. The round robin playoffs end on the 28th.