Geramny took the lead in the fourth inning when Cuban starter left-handed Misael Siverio allowed two singles, and threw two wild pitches followed by a sacry-fly to score the first run.

In the sixth designed hitter Simon Gühring singled and reached second after another wild pitch, moved to third when the next batter groundout and was batted in by first baseman Bjorn Schonlau.

Cuba reduced the gap in the following inning when outfielder Yasel Puig hit a solo homer out of starter Eugen Heilmann. But Germany managed to score again in the eight combining two singles and a dead ball.

In his next at-bat Puig singled for another RBI, but Cuba couldn’t tie the game despite having loaded bases with one out. In the ninth with two outs and runner on second Yoilan Cerce shot a line drive to the center to force the game to extra-innings.

In the tenth inning Yoelvis Fiss singled, advanced to second and third with two groundouts and scored the winning run after costly error by the German short-stop.

The berst Cuban batter was Puig who went 3 out of 5 with two RBIs and one run, while Schonlau singled twice with two RBIs.

Now Cuba has two wins and two losses, while Chinese Taipei leads the group with three wins in the same amount of games.