{"id":102250,"date":"2026-01-08T23:09:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/cibao-eagles-defeat-lions-de-la-cruz-and-taveras-shine-in-lidom\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:09:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:09:01","slug":"cibao-eagles-defeat-lions-de-la-cruz-and-taveras-shine-in-lidom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/cibao-eagles-defeat-lions-de-la-cruz-and-taveras-shine-in-lidom\/","title":{"rendered":"Cibao Eagles defeat Lions: De la Cruz and Taveras shine in Lidom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cibao Eagles defeat Escogido Lions in a vibrant match<\/h2>\n\n\nIn a night full of emotions at the Cibao Stadium, the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as achieved an important victory over the Leones del Escogido with a score of 2-1, in a game corresponding to the Round Robin.\n\n\u00d3scar De la Cruz&#8217;s performance from the mound and Leody Taveras&#8217; decisive home run were key to the Aguilas&#8217; victory.\n\nThis result brings the Eagles, who now have a 5-5 record, closer to the top of the Round Robin, where the Lions lead with 7-3.\n\nFor the Eagles, this is their second home win (2-4), while as visitors they exhibit a solid 3-1 record.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured Individual Performances<\/h2>\n\n\n\u00d3scar De la Cruz took the victory (2-0), showing great dominance during six scoreless innings, allowing five hits and striking out four batters. Burch Smith achieved save number three.\n\nFor the Leones, Jos\u00e9 Urquidy took the loss (0-2).\n\nIn terms of offense, Leody Taveras stood out with a home run for the Eagles, while Jerar Encarnaci\u00f3n hit two singles.\n\nBy the Escogido, Raimel Tapia led the attack with a home run and a single.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The game development<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Eagles took the lead in the fourth inning, thanks to Leody Taveras&#8217; home run and a hit by Cristhian Adames.\n\nThe Lions scored in the eighth inning with a home run by Raimel Tapia, but they failed to tie the score.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cibao Eagles defeat Escogido Lions in a vibrant match In a night full of emotions at the Cibao Stadium, the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as achieved an important victory over the Leones del Escogido with a score of 2-1, in a game corresponding to the Round Robin. \u00d3scar De la Cruz&#8217;s performance from the mound and Leody Taveras&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,5355,988,11085],"class_list":{"0":"post-102250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cibao-eagles","10":"tag-leody-taveras","11":"tag-round-robin"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102250","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=102250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}