{"id":103978,"date":"2026-01-17T21:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/toros-del-este-dominate-gigantes-and-approach-the-final-series\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T21:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:29:31","slug":"toros-del-este-dominate-gigantes-and-approach-the-final-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/toros-del-este-dominate-gigantes-and-approach-the-final-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Toros del Este dominate Gigantes and approach the Final Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alc\u00e1ntara leads Toros del Este to victory over Gigantes del Cibao<\/h2>\n\nSAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS \u2013 Sergio Alc\u00e1ntara shined with the bat, driving the Toros del Este to a 6-5 victory over the Gigantes del Cibao in the 18th day of the Todos Contra Todos, held at the Juli\u00e1n Javier stadium.\n\nAlc\u00e1ntara connected two doubles and drove in three runs, including the decisive one, solidifying himself as the offensive figure of the match. The player finished the night with a 4-3 performance, raising his hits to ten in the Round Robin.\n\nAlc\u00e1ntara&#8217;s two-run double in the eighth inning broke the tie, securing the victory for the Bulls.\n\nEric Filia also contributed to the triumph with a double that drove in two runs, while Eloy Jim\u00e9nez added a double that drove in one run. With this hit, Jim\u00e9nez tied the historical record for most doubles connected in a Round Robin, with nine.\n\nFrom the bullpen, Yaramil Hiraldo (2-1, 1.29) earned the victory, pitching a scoreless inning with two strikeouts. Joe Corbett earned his seventh save of the semifinal, while Christopher Molina (0-3, 3.86) took the loss.\n\nWith this result, the Toros del Este improve their record to 11-7 and remain in second place in the Round Robin, awaiting the outcome of the game between \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as and Leones del Escogido, which was postponed due to rain.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How the races developed<\/h3>\n\n\nThe Bulls took the lead in the first inning with a double by Eloy Jim\u00e9nez to left field. The Giants responded in the bottom of the inning with an infield hit by Ricardo C\u00e9spedes.\n\nIn the second inning, Sergio Alc\u00e1ntara hit a long double between left and center field, driving in two runs to make the score 3-1. The lead was extended in the fourth inning with a two-run double by Eric Filia, making the score 5-1.\n\nThe Giants reacted with a two-run homer by David Ba\u00f1uelos in the fourth and added one more in the fifth, closing the score to 5-4. In the sixth, Jorge Bonifacio hit a solo home run to tie the game 5-5.\n\nThe game was defined in the eighth inning when, with two outs, Sergio Alc\u00e1ntara hit a double to center field, driving in Ismael Alc\u00e1ntara from second and scoring the run that gave the Toros the definitive lead.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured Performances<\/h3>\n\n\n<strong>By the Bulls:<\/strong> Sergio Alc\u00e1ntara 4-3, two doubles and three RBIs; Eloy Jim\u00e9nez 4-1, double and one RBI; Eric Filia 4-1, double and two RBIs; Yairo Mu\u00f1oz 4-2 with one run; Onix Vega 4-2 with two runs.\n\n<strong>For the Giants:<\/strong> David Ba\u00f1uelos 2-1, home run and two RBIs; Ricardo C\u00e9spedes 4-3, triple, one RBI and one run scored; Kelvin Guti\u00e9rrez drove in a run.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alc\u00e1ntara leads Toros del Este to victory over Gigantes del Cibao SAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS \u2013 Sergio Alc\u00e1ntara shined with the bat, driving the Toros del Este to a 6-5 victory over the Gigantes del Cibao in the 18th day of the Todos Contra Todos, held at the Juli\u00e1n Javier stadium. Alc\u00e1ntara connected two doubles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1048,11085,5305,5271],"class_list":{"0":"post-103978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-giants","9":"tag-round-robin","10":"tag-sergio-alcantara","11":"tag-toros-del-este"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103978","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=103978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}