{"id":102418,"date":"2026-01-09T04:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/cibao-eagles-defeat-lions-de-la-cruz-and-taveras-shine-in-lidom-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T04:56:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:56:01","slug":"cibao-eagles-defeat-lions-de-la-cruz-and-taveras-shine-in-lidom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/cibao-eagles-defeat-lions-de-la-cruz-and-taveras-shine-in-lidom-2\/","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 thrilling match<\/h2>\n\n\nSantiago &#8211; In a night full of emotions at the Cibao Stadium, the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as achieved an important 2-1 victory over the Leones del Escogido, in a game corresponding to the Round Robin.\n\n\u00d3scar De la Cruz&#8217;s outstanding performance from the mound and a crucial home run by Leody Taveras were key to the Aguiluchos&#8217; victory.\n\nThis result brings the Eagles closer, who now have a 5-5 record, to two games behind the Lions, leaders of the Round Robin with a 7-3 record. In addition, it represents the second defeat that the yellows inflict on the Lions in this phase of the tournament.\n\nFor the Eagles, this is their second home victory, where they have a 2-4 record, while as visitors they show a solid 3-1.\n\n\u00d3scar De la Cruz took the victory (2-0), while Jos\u00e9 Urquidy took the loss (0-2). Burch Smith got the number three save.\n\nDe la Cruz, the opener for the Eagles, demonstrated his dominance over six scoreless innings, allowing five hits, without conceding walks and striking out four batters. The Eagles&#8217; relief was handled by Junior Fern\u00e1ndez in the seventh, Richard Rodr\u00edguez in the eighth, and Burch Smith closing the ninth.\n\nFor the Leones, Jos\u00e9 Urquidy pitched four innings, allowing two earned runs, three hits, no walks, and striking out two opponents. The red bullpen featured H\u00e9ctor Neris, Tyler Danish, Di\u00f3genes Almeng\u00f3, Jefry Yan, and Aneurys Zabala.\n\nOn offense, Leody Taveras stood out for the \u00c1guilas with a home run. Jerar Encarnaci\u00f3n connected two singles, Steward Berroa a double, and Geraldo Perdomo and Cristhian Adames contributed one hit each.\n\nFor the Escogido, Raimel Tapia led the attack with a home run and a single, while Junior Lake, Bryan De la Cruz, and Franmil \u201cTrancha\u201d Cordero contributed two hits each, and Jos\u00e9 Marmolejos added a single.\n\nThe Eagles took the lead in the fourth inning, scoring their two runs. Leody Taveras opened the inning with a home run, followed by a single by Geraldo Perdomo, who advanced to second on a balk and scored on a hit by Cristhian Adames.\n\nThe Lions scored in the eighth inning with a solo home run by Raimel Tapia, setting the final score at 2-1.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cibao Eagles defeat Escogido Lions in a thrilling match Santiago &#8211; In a night full of emotions at the Cibao Stadium, the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as achieved an important 2-1 victory over the Leones del Escogido, in a game corresponding to the Round Robin. \u00d3scar De la Cruz&#8217;s outstanding performance from the mound and a crucial home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,5355,988,11085],"class_list":{"0":"post-102418","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\/102418","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=102418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}