CARACAS (DA) — Jurickson Profar hit his first Venezuelan Professional Baseball League home run Tuesday night, a three-run shot that accounted for all of Tiburones de La Guaira’s scoring in a 6-3 loss to Tigres de Aragua at Estadio Universitario.
The Curaçao-born left fielder drove a two-out pitch 420 feet to left in the fifth inning, scoring Alcides Escobar and Jorge Barrosa to cut Aragua’s lead to 5-3. Profar went 2 for 4 and finished the night batting .320 with 12 RBIs. Barrosa went 4 for 5 and stole second base.
Leobaldo Piña went 4 for 5 for Aragua, which took a 5-0 lead on his two-run homer in the top of the fifth. Tigres added a run in the eighth, and Luis Pacheco pitched a scoreless ninth for his second save.