{"id":103393,"date":"2026-01-14T04:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/toros-del-este-dominate-leones-courtney-shines-key-bullpen-and-victory\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T04:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:56:02","slug":"toros-del-este-dominate-leones-courtney-shines-key-bullpen-and-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/toros-del-este-dominate-leones-courtney-shines-key-bullpen-and-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Toros del Este Dominate Leones: Courtney Shines, Key Bullpen, and Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Toros del Este Dominate Leones del Escogido in a Key Game<\/h2>\n\nLa Romana \u2013 Justin Courtney shone from the mound, guiding the Toros del Este to a 3-1 victory over the Leones del Escogido. This triumph consolidates the Toros in second place in the Round Robin of the 2025-26 LIDOM tournament.\n\nCourtney (2-1) demonstrated her dominance by allowing only three hits, without conceding walks and striking out five batters in five scoreless innings. This performance marks her second consecutive outing of at least five innings without allowing runs in the Round Robin.\n\nThe Toros&#8217; bullpen, composed of Anderson Severino, Jimmy Yacabonis, Yaramil Hiraldo, J.C. Mej\u00eda, and Joe Corbett, held the lead, limiting the Leones to an unearned run in four innings. Corbett took charge of the ninth inning, securing his fourth save.\n\nWith this victory, the Bulls improved their record to 8-6, breaking a streak of four consecutive losses and solidifying their position in second place in the standings.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Party Races<\/h3>\n\n\nThe Toros scored their three runs in the second inning, taking advantage of defensive errors by the Escogido. A hit by Onix Vega, combined with an error by the catcher, allowed the first run, scored by Eloy Jim\u00e9nez. Then, a ground ball by Rafael Lantigua and another error by shortstop Erik Gonz\u00e1lez facilitated the scores of Eric Filia and Vega himself, establishing the score 3-0.\n\nThe Lions&#8217; only run came in the seventh inning, when Michael De La Cruz hit a sacrifice fly to right field, driving in Jorge Mateo.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured Players<\/h3>\n\n\nFor the Toros, Onix Vega debuted successfully by batting 4-2 and scoring a run; Eloy Jim\u00e9nez went 4-1 with a run scored; Eric Filia hit a single, received two walks and scored; while Bryan De La Cruz hit a double.\n\nFor the Leones, Jos\u00e9 Marmolejos went 2-for-4, S\u00f3crates Brito hit a double, and Michael De La Cruz drove in the team&#8217;s only run.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next Meeting<\/h3>\n\n\nThe Toros will continue their participation in the Round Robin this Wednesday, when they visit the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as at the Cibao Stadium at 7:30 p.m., with Jaime Barr\u00eda announced as the starting pitcher for the team from La Romana.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toros del Este Dominate Leones del Escogido in a Key Game La Romana \u2013 Justin Courtney shone from the mound, guiding the Toros del Este to a 3-1 victory over the Leones del Escogido. This triumph consolidates the Toros in second place in the Round Robin of the 2025-26 LIDOM tournament. Courtney (2-1) demonstrated her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,1279,888,5271],"class_list":{"0":"post-103393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-lidom","10":"tag-lions","11":"tag-toros-del-este"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103393","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=103393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}