The Cuban baseball team lost 1-13 to the NC Dinos of the South Korean Professional League in its first match of preparation for the Premier 12, in a game played in the city of Ulsan.
The Asian team, champions in 2020 and in ninth place in the recently completed season, hit a total of 16 hits, including three homers, to knock out the Antillean team, which is still without several of its regular players.
The Cuban national team will continue this week to face different teams from that Asian country and on the first two days of November will face the national team, which was placed in the same group B in the tournament, where the 12 countries that lead the world ranking will compete.
The Dominican Republic, Australia, Japan, and Chinese Taipei will also be looking for one of the two available tickets to the final round. The United States, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Netherlands, and Mexico will face off in the A bracket, which will begin on November 9 in the Mexican cities of Guadalajara and Tepic.
