Victim of its very poor offense, the Cuban under-23 baseball team fell 0-5 to Puerto Rico this Thursday, debuting in the World Championship held at the Tianmu Stadium, in Taipei, China, a tournament in which the matches are played to seven innings.Mentor Alain Álvarez's troupe showed very wet gunpowder in this debut, as he was barely able to hit two singles against four pitchers, which former Major League Baseball and Puerto Rican manager Juan Igor González sent to the mound, all with pitches over 90 miles.With that lousy offensive support, it is impossible to solve a good result.The two undisputed ones were the work of Havana right fielder Cristián Hidalgo, who doubled starter Alexander Castro in the first inning, and Las Vegas second baseman Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, on touch ball at the start of the sixth inning.And since the batting was conspicuous by his absence, the Cuban squad was unable to take advantage of the five walks and the hit by the Puerto Rican pitchers.Puerto Rico scored their first two runs in the fourth inning against starter and loser Naykel Cruz, who had tied them up cortico in the first three delivered at a rate of six strikeouts and just one hit.But in the fourth act, after striking out shortstop Ross, first baseman Pedro Pablo Revilla made a costly mistake and three consecutive singles followed, including an RBI by left fielder Pablo Sánchez, which caused Naykel to leave the box and be replaced by Marlon Vega. .The other three Puerto Rican touchdowns that channeled the victory came in the seventh inning in which they barely hit two hits, including a brace by Ricardo Torres against Vega, valid for scoring a couple of touchdowns.The relievers Andy Vargas and Alex Guerra did not appear controlled and gave three successive walks.The last out of that inning was made by Luis Serpa.For today Cuba has scheduled a duel against the Australian squad and the starter will be left-handed Oscar Hernández from Villa Clara.CMHW, now and forever in the heart of Villa Clara.