{"id":674662,"date":"2026-04-13T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674662\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:39:22","slug":"cuban-martinez-saves-his-third-game-in-japanese-baseball-radio-rebelde-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674662\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Martinez Saves his Third Game in Japanese baseball \u2013 Radio Rebelde \u2013 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFacebook<br \/>\nTwitter<br \/>\nWhatsApp\n<\/p>\n<p>Cuban Raidel Martinez today recorded his third save in the young Japanese baseball season, securing the Yomiuri Giants\u2019 3-2 victory over the Yakult Swallows.<\/p>\n<p>The lanky pitcher from Pinar del R\u00edo, in western Cuba, pitched a scoreless ninth inning, striking out one batter to secure the Giants\u2019 sixth win in eleven games. The Giants play in the Central League of the Japanese professional baseball league.<\/p>\n<p>Mart\u00ednez, who had his best season in 2015 with a career-high 46 saves\u2014also a record for a closer in the Central League\u2014has amassed 215 saves since his debut in 2018 with the Chunichi Dragons.<\/p>\n<p>Considered among the best in his role in Japanese professional baseball, after two seasons with more than 40 saves each, Raidel leads the all-time list of Latin American players with the most saves in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s schedule also saw Hanshin win 5-3 against Chunichi and Lotte defeat Seibu 6-3, while rain prevented the matches between DeNA and Hiroshima and Orix against Rakuten from taking place.<\/p>\n<p>\nFacebook<br \/>\nTwitter<br \/>\nWhatsApp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Cuban Raidel Martinez today recorded his third save in the young Japanese baseball season, securing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,2353,2352],"class_list":{"0":"post-674662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-npb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","10":"tag-npb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116396501447862132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}