{"id":105318,"date":"2026-01-26T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/leones-del-escogido-santiago-demands-focus-after-defeat-in-the-lidom-final\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:15:09","slug":"leones-del-escogido-santiago-demands-focus-after-defeat-in-the-lidom-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/leones-del-escogido-santiago-demands-focus-after-defeat-in-the-lidom-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Leones del Escogido: Santiago demands focus after defeat in the LIDOM Final"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 The Leones del Escogido suffered a hard blow this Sunday by not being able to secure the victory against the Toros del Este, who achieved their first triumph in the LIDOM Final Series.\n\nDespite the defeat, the scarlet leader, Ram\u00f3n Santiago, remained calm and sent a clear message to his team: focus on the next game and seek victory. Santiago highlighted that, despite the setback, the Lions still lead the series 2-1.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We have to turn the page. We know we are facing a great team, but tomorrow we must come ready and focused on winning the game<\/p><cite>Ram\u00f3n Santiago<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe leader also highlighted positive aspects of his team&#8217;s performance, especially the work of the pitchers, even though the offense was not at its best.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We couldn&#8217;t take advantage of the opportunities as we are used to offensively, but we understand that not every day you score five or six runs. The pitching did its job and kept us in the game until the ninth inning<\/p><cite>Ram\u00f3n Santiago<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nSantiago explained that the plans for the fourth game were modified due to the days off because of the rain and a flu process affecting Radham\u00e9s Liz, the pitcher originally scheduled to open.\n\nThe opener for the fourth game will be Travis Lakins, who already has his five days of rest. Santiago trusts in his team&#8217;s ability to recover from the defeat, remembering their resilience demonstrated throughout the season.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This team has shown throughout the season, including the Round Robin, that it knows how to recover from defeats. It is a resilient group that doesn&#8217;t give up and always fights<\/p><cite>Ram\u00f3n Santiago<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe fourth game of the Final Series will be played this Monday at the Francisco A. Micheli stadium in La Romana, starting at 5:00 in the afternoon.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 The Leones del Escogido suffered a hard blow this Sunday by not being able to secure the victory against the Toros del Este, who achieved their first triumph in the LIDOM Final Series. Despite the defeat, the scarlet leader, Ram\u00f3n Santiago, remained calm and sent a clear message to his team: focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[2490,6717,3875,1279],"class_list":{"0":"post-105318","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\/105318","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=105318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}