{"id":105861,"date":"2026-01-30T04:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/abinader-urges-leones-del-escogido-to-compete-with-patriotism-in-caribbean-series\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:58:18","slug":"abinader-urges-leones-del-escogido-to-compete-with-patriotism-in-caribbean-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/abinader-urges-leones-del-escogido-to-compete-with-patriotism-in-caribbean-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Abinader Urges Leones del Escogido to Compete with Patriotism in Caribbean Series"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo \u2013 The President of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, received this Thursday the players of the Leones del Escogido, who were crowned champions of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League.The main objective of the meeting was to motivate the team, which will represent the country in the next Caribbean Series to be held in Jalisco, Mexico, from February 1 to 7.During the ceremony, the president handed the national flag to the directors and players of the red team, who won the 18th title for the franchise based in Santo Domingo.\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Call to Patriotism<\/h2>\nPresident Abinader highlighted the &#8220;pride&#8221; generated by the two-time championship and urged the players to compete with discipline, dedication, and patriotic commitment in Mexico.<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>He highlighted the quality of the team and its reinforcements, expressing his confidence that they will maintain the high level of play that led them to the LIDOM championship.<\/p><cite>Luis Abinader<\/cite><\/blockquote>Furthermore, the president especially encouraged relief pitcher Jeffry Yan, known as &#8216;La Sentencia&#8217;, to dominate from the mound in the Caribbean Series.The Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kelvin Cruz, was also present and valued President Abinader&#8217;s support for baseball, recognizing the joint effort of the institutions that strengthen the tournament.\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Words from the Lions<\/h2>\nEduardo Najri, president of the Leones del Escogido, highlighted that the current government period has coincided with a successful stage for the franchise.Among the players present at the event were figures such as Junior Lake, S\u00f3crates Brito, Alcides Escobar (Most Valuable Player of the final series) and Henry Sosa.The Leones del Escogido won the championship after defeating the Toros del Este in five games.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo \u2013 The President of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, received this Thursday the players of the Leones del Escogido, who were crowned champions of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League.The main objective of the meeting was to motivate the team, which will represent the country in the next Caribbean Series to be held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,2688,888,11127],"class_list":{"0":"post-105861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-caribbean-series","10":"tag-lions","11":"tag-luis-abinader"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105861","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=105861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}