{"id":103871,"date":"2026-01-17T04:55:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/leones-del-escogido-to-the-dominican-baseball-final-for-the-second-year\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T04:55:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:55:58","slug":"leones-del-escogido-to-the-dominican-baseball-final-for-the-second-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/leones-del-escogido-to-the-dominican-baseball-final-for-the-second-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Leones del Escogido to the Dominican Baseball Final for the Second Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leones del Escogido Secure Their Spot in the Dominican Baseball Final<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Leones del Escogido have secured their spot in the Dominican baseball final series for the second consecutive year. The team achieved this feat after defeating the Gigantes del Cibao with a score of 7-3 at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium.\n\nThis triumph not only secures their place in the final, but also guarantees them first place in the Round Robin format. With a 12-5 record, the scarlet team secures the home advantage at the start of the championship series.\n\nThe Saturday game will be against the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, who are still in the fight for the second ticket to the final.\n\nFrom the mound, Radham\u00e9s Liz had an outstanding performance, pitching 4.1 innings without allowing runs, with three strikeouts and one walk, although he did not get the win.\n\nThe Lions opened the scoring in the second inning, when Elih Villanueva gave a walk to Michael De la Cruz, which allowed the home team&#8217;s first run.\n\nThe Scarlet&#8217;s offense ignited in the fifth inning. Jorge Mateo received a walk and Alcides Escobar reached base on an error. Erik Gonz\u00e1lez drove in two runs with a double to left field. Junior Lake contributed with a groundout that allowed Gonz\u00e1lez to score.\n\nThe Giants responded with two runs in the sixth inning and one more in the eighth. However, the Lions extended their lead with a solo home run by Yamaico Navarro to left field, with a distance of 393 feet and an exit velocity of 102 miles per hour.\n\nIn the eighth, Jorge Mateo hit a single that drove in two additional runs, solidifying the victory for the scarlet team.\n\nKenny Hern\u00e1ndez (1-0) earned the victory, while Elih Villanueva (0-1) took the loss. Stephen Nogosek earned the save (2).\n\nIn the Lions&#8217; offense, Erik Gonz\u00e1lez went 1-for-4, with a double, two RBIs, and a run scored. Yamaico Navarro, 2-for-3, with a home run, one RBI, one run scored, and one stolen base. Junior Lake, 1-for-4, with one RBI, one run scored, and three stolen bases, and Jorge Mateo, 1-for-3, with two RBIs, one run scored, and one stolen base.\n\nFor the Giants, Edwin Espinal went 4-3, with a double and a run scored, while Leury Garc\u00eda batted 4-2, with a double and an RBI.\n\nThe game between Leones del Escogido and \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, corresponding to the last date of the Round Robin, is scheduled for this Saturday at 4:00 in the afternoon at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leones del Escogido Secure Their Spot in the Dominican Baseball Final The Leones del Escogido have secured their spot in the Dominican baseball final series for the second consecutive year. The team achieved this feat after defeating the Gigantes del Cibao with a score of 7-3 at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium. This triumph not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[10100,6717,3875,9834],"class_list":{"0":"post-103871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-dominican-baseball","9":"tag-final-series","10":"tag-leones-del-escogido","11":"tag-quisqueya-stadium"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103871","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=103871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}