Despite being down on the scoreboard 6-2, the current national and Caribbean champions started their offense in the eighth inning against Jean Carlos Mej\u00eda. H\u00e9ctor Rodr\u00edguez and Erik Gonz\u00e1lez hit consecutive singles. S\u00f3crates Brito drove in a run with a double to left field, followed by an infield hit by Junior Lake that drove in Gonz\u00e1lez.<\/p>\n\n
A ground ball by Raimel Tapia advanced the runners, and a walk to Yamaico Navarro loaded the bases. Alcides Escobar hit a single that drove in two runs, tying the game. After Mej\u00eda’s exit, Joe Corbett walked Michael De la Cruz, again congesting the bases. Franchy Cordero, as a pinch hitter, hit a sacrifice fly to right field, scoring the go-ahead run.<\/p>\n\nThe Lions had taken the lead early in the game. H\u00e9ctor Rodr\u00edguez opened the first inning with a double against Enny Romero and scored thanks to a single by Junior Lake. Lake advanced to second on an error and then stole third base, later scoring on a balk.\n\nThe Toros responded in the second inning with a two-run homer by Eddie Rosario against Travis Lakins. Lakins hit Yairo Mu\u00f1oz and walked Jeimer Candelario, being replaced by Derek West. A single by Onix Vega loaded the bases with no outs, and although Rudy Martin struck out, a walk to Eric Filia allowed the third run for the Romanense. A double play by Sergio Alc\u00e1ntara ended the threat.\n\nAneurys Zabala (1-0) took the victory, pitching one inning with one run and two strikeouts. Jean Carlos Mej\u00eda (0-1) took the loss after allowing the five runs in the eighth inning. Stephen Nogosek earned the save (1), pitching the ninth inning without allowing runs.\n\nFor the Leones, H\u00e9ctor Rodr\u00edguez went 3-4, with a double, two runs scored and a walk; Junior Lake went 2-3, with two RBIs, two runs scored, a walk and two stolen bases; S\u00f3crates Brito went 1-2, with a double, one RBI, one run scored, two walks and two steals; while Alcides Escobar drove in two runs.\n\nFor the Toros, Eddie Rosario hit a two-run homer and scored once, and Eloy Jim\u00e9nez stood out by going 5-3, with two doubles, one RBI, and two runs scored.\n\nThe Final Series will continue this Thursday with the second game, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the Francisco A. Micheli stadium, in La Romana.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 Los Leones del Escogido logr\u00f3 una impresionante remontada este mi\u00e9rcoles, anotando cinco carreras en el octavo episodio para vencer 7-6 a los Toros del Este en el primer juego de la Serie Final de la Liga de B\u00e9isbol Profesional de la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana (LIDOM), celebrado en el estadio Quisqueya Juan Marichal. Despite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[2490,6717,3875,1279],"class_list":{"0":"post-104805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-bulls","9":"tag-final-series","10":"tag-leones-del-escogido","11":"tag-lidom"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104805","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=104805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}