{"id":80825,"date":"2025-11-17T23:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/toros-del-este-crush-leones-celestino-and-guzman-shine-in-la-romana\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:46:29","slug":"toros-del-este-crush-leones-celestino-and-guzman-shine-in-la-romana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/toros-del-este-crush-leones-celestino-and-guzman-shine-in-la-romana\/","title":{"rendered":"Toros del Este crush Leones: Celestino and Guzm\u00e1n shine in La Romana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Toros del Este dominate Leones del Escogido with explosive offense<\/h2>\nLa Romana \u2013 Los Toros del Este demonstrated their offensive prowess and defeated the Leones del Escogido 8-4 this Monday at the Francisco A. Micheli Stadium. The taurine team, thanks to timely hitting, speed on the bases, and effective relief, consolidated their position at the top of the standings.\nWith this victory, the Bulls (10-9) had 12 hits and tied the head-to-head series 5-1 against a Lions (8-12) team that couldn&#8217;t stop the local offense.\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celestino leads the offense with a stellar night<\/h3>\n\nGilberto Celestino was the figure of the encounter, standing out with four hits, two stolen bases and extending his streak to 17 times on base in 19 games. This was his first four-hit day of the season and his eighth multi-hit game.\n<h3>De La Cruz and Guzm\u00e1n shine with the bat<\/h3>\nBryan De La Cruz continued his good moment by connecting his second home run of the season, raising his total of RBIs to 15, leading the team in that category. Denzer Guzm\u00e1n also had an outstanding performance, connecting his first home run in the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM), a hit that ignited the stands.\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The bullfighting pitching prevails at key moments<\/h3>\n\nChester Pimentel (2-0, 2.70) took the victory demonstrating control and consistency from the mound. Trevor Kelley (0-1, 7.36) took the loss, being punished by the Romanense offense.\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary of the Races<\/h3>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First inning:<\/strong> Celestino leads off with a hit, Oliva connects with a double, and a ground ball by De La Cruz drives in the first run (1-0).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third inning:<\/strong> The Leones take the lead with RBIs from Gonz\u00e1lez and Rodr\u00edguez (2-1). The Toros tie the game with Celestino&#8217;s speed and an error after Oliva&#8217;s single (2-2).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fifth inning:<\/strong> The Toros score two runs: Hern\u00e1ndez and Celestino hit singles, and a balk opens the door to 3-2. De La Cruz hits a home run with one on base (5-3).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sixth inning:<\/strong> Guzm\u00e1n hits his first home run and Celestino drives in another with his fourth hit (7-3).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seventh inning:<\/strong> Eloy Jim\u00e9nez hits a double and Manny Pe\u00f1a scores on a wild pitch to extend the lead to 8-3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eighth inning:<\/strong> El Escogido cuts the lead with a couple of hits and another wild pitch (8-4).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next meeting<\/h3>\n\nThe Bulls will travel to Santiago this Tuesday, November 18, to face the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, with Aaron Brooks (1-0, 0.79) scheduled to open.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toros del Este dominate Leones del Escogido with explosive offense La Romana \u2013 Los Toros del Este demonstrated their offensive prowess and defeated the Leones del Escogido 8-4 this Monday at the Francisco A. Micheli Stadium. The taurine team, thanks to timely hitting, speed on the bases, and effective relief, consolidated their position at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[10291,3905,888,5271],"class_list":{"0":"post-80825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-celestino","9":"tag-jonron","10":"tag-lions","11":"tag-toros-del-este"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80825","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=80825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}