Mumbai Clinches First Place After Defeating Mid East

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DUBAI, UAE (December 4, 2025) – Lord de Vera went 3-for-4 with two RBIs, and Miguel Ojeda hit a two-run home run in the second inning, so that Mumbai Cobras beat Mid East Falcons 6-3 to secure first place in the Baseball United Season One standings.

Chander Woolridge had a perfect 2.1 innings relief to earn the win (0 H, 0 ER, 4 SO, one Fire Ball Scored).

Chase Gearing (2.2 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 4 SO), Akshay More (1.2 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 SO), Brandon Kaminer, (1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 1 BB) and Akeel Morris, who got the save, (1.0 IP, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 SO) completed the work up the mound for Mumbai.

Along with De Vera and Ojeda, Gedionne Marlin went 2-for-5 with a triple, two runs scored, and one RBI, while Brantley Bell went 2-for-3 and Manuel Ascanio batted 1-for-3 with two runs scored, to highlight Mumbai’s offense.

With this result, Mumbai secures first place in the Baseball United season one standings, with a final win-loss record of 6-3, and will wait for the second place in the standings to dispute the United Series, which will come between Mid East and Arabia; both teams will close the regular season facing each other this weekend.

Other highlights:

Shuhei Fukuda and Hiroyuki Nakajima went 2-for-3 with one RBI each, while Munenori Kawasaki went 2-for-4 with one run scored and one RBI, to seal the Falcons offense.
Haru Yoshioka took the loss after 3.0 IP, where he allowed eight hits, one home run, five earned runs, and struck out four. Shotaro Kasahara (2.0 IP, 0 H 0 ER, 1 BB), Shotaro Nakata (0.1 IP, 1 H, 2 BB), Kodai Hamaya (1 H, 0 ER 3 SO), Shingo Hirata (1.0, 0 ER, 1 BB) and Severino González (1.0 IP, 0 ER, 1 SO), completed the pitching line for Mid East.
The Falcons, who had a total of 11 players left on base, currently have a 3-3 record.