Cuban Gourriel to Set New Homer Record 

Currently immerse in the best season of his sports career, Cuban baseball player Yulieski Gourriel is on the verge of breaking the absolute homerun record in a National Series, and this feat seems imminent.

The star in the Sancti Spiritus "Roosters" has belted 25 home runs in 65 games, a figure that makes predict a total of 34 moon shots by the end of the regular season.

This new record would beat the previous 32-homer score that Alfredo Despaigne, from the Granma "Sorrels", set in the previous championship.

If he ends up as the home-run leader, setting or not a record, the third baseman of the Cuban team would be a homer champion for the second time in his baseball career, after leading the 2005-2006 season, with 27 round-trippers.

PL Translation Staff