{"id":100145,"date":"2026-01-02T04:57:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/jonron-de-junior-lake-propels-leones-del-escogido-to-lead-round-robin-3\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:57:04","slug":"jonron-de-junior-lake-propels-leones-del-escogido-to-lead-round-robin-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/jonron-de-junior-lake-propels-leones-del-escogido-to-lead-round-robin-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonr\u00f3n de Junior Lake propels Leones del Escogido to lead Round Robin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Junior Lake Drives the Victory for the Leones del Escogido<\/h2>\n\n\nA two-run home run hit by Junior Lake in the seventh inning broke the tie and gave the Leones del Escogido a 3-2 victory over the Gigantes del Cibao this Tuesday. With this triumph, the Lions remain undefeated (4-0) and lead the Round Robin alone.\n\nLake&#8217;s decisive hit, against Yovanny Cruz, traveled 388 feet through left field and reached an exit velocity of 104.8 miles per hour, marking the key moment of the game.\n\nThe Leones del Escogido opened the scoring in the fourth inning. Raimel Tapia and Jorge Mateo hit consecutive singles. An error by left fielder Leury Garc\u00eda allowed Mateo to advance to second, and a groundout by Jos\u00e9 Marmolejos drove in Tapia for the first run.\n\nIn the fifth, the Giants threatened with bases loaded and two outs, but Francisco Mej\u00eda grounded out to second and Jorge Mateo made a brilliant throw to first to prevent the run.\n\nThe Giants&#8217; reaction came in the sixth inning, when Nicholas Torres hit a triple and scored on a sacrifice fly by Leury Garc\u00eda. The Giants&#8217; second run came in the ninth inning, but Aneurys Zabala managed to preserve the lead for the save.\n\nCarlos Teller (2-0) earned the victory, while Fernando Abad (0-1) took the loss. Radham\u00e9s Liz, the scarlet starter, pitched 4.2 innings without allowing runs, with four hits, three strikeouts, and two walks.\n\nWith this result, the Leones del Escogido (4-0) continue to lead the Round Robin, while the Gigantes del Cibao (0-4) still do not know victory.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Offensive Highlights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leones del Escogido:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Junior Lake: 4-1, home run, 2 RBIs and 1 run scored<\/li><li>Raimel Tapia: 4-1, 1 run scored<\/li><li>Michael De la Cruz: 2-1, 1 run scored and 1 walk<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gigantes del Cibao:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Nicholas Torres: 4-1, triple and 1 scored<\/li><li>Marco Hern\u00e1ndez: 5-2<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nAfter the New Year&#8217;s and New Year&#8217;s break, the Lions will return to action this Thursday in La Romana, where they will face the Toros del Este starting at 7:30 p.m.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junior Lake Drives the Victory for the Leones del Escogido A two-run home run hit by Junior Lake in the seventh inning broke the tie and gave the Leones del Escogido a 3-2 victory over the Gigantes del Cibao this Tuesday. With this triumph, the Lions remain undefeated (4-0) and lead the Round Robin alone. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,1048,10613,3875],"class_list":{"0":"post-100145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-junior-lake","11":"tag-leones-del-escogido"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}