{"id":17406,"date":"2025-07-20T08:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/steven-moya-withdraws-from-all-star-game-in-taiwan-due-to-wifes-passing\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:55:11","slug":"steven-moya-withdraws-from-all-star-game-in-taiwan-due-to-wifes-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/steven-moya-withdraws-from-all-star-game-in-taiwan-due-to-wifes-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Moya Withdraws from All-Star Game in Taiwan Due to Wife&#8217;s Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Steven Moya Withdraws from All-Star Game After Tragic Loss<\/h2>\n\nSanto Domingo \u2013 The baseball world is in mourning following the unexpected news that forced Dominican player Steven Moya to withdraw from the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) All-Star Game in Taiwan.\n\nMoya received the devastating news of his wife&#8217;s passing, an event that has shocked the sports community.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Acereros de Monclova Club joins in the sorrow that overwhelms family and friends of our former player, Steven Moya, for the sensitive passing of his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Esmeralda Moya \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f We send our most sincere condolences, wishing them to find comfort.<\/p><cite>Acereros de Monclova<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nPreliminary information suggests that the death occurred while Moya&#8217;s wife was on board a plane, although no further details about the circumstances have been revealed.\n\nCurrently, Moya plays with the Estrellas Orientales in the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (Lidom) and leads the CPBL in several offensive statistics this season. His outstanding performance had made him a key figure in the All-Star Game.\n\nThe left-handed pitcher has a distinguished career in baseball. He previously played for the Toros del Este and was acquired by the Tigres del Licey in February 2024. However, he did not debut with the team, being released in March of the same year.\n\nIn the international arena, Moya also participated in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers between 2014 and 2017, where he recorded a batting average of .250, with five home runs and eleven RBIs.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Moya Withdraws from All-Star Game After Tragic Loss Santo Domingo \u2013 The baseball world is in mourning following the unexpected news that forced Dominican player Steven Moya to withdraw from the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) All-Star Game in Taiwan. Moya received the devastating news of his wife&#8217;s passing, an event that has shocked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,6053,708,6054],"class_list":{"0":"post-17406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cpbl","10":"tag-death","11":"tag-steven-moya"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17406","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=17406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}