{"id":84383,"date":"2025-11-21T21:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chosen-dominates-giants-lakins-shines-and-bullpen-secures-victory\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:31:21","slug":"chosen-dominates-giants-lakins-shines-and-bullpen-secures-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/chosen-dominates-giants-lakins-shines-and-bullpen-secures-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Chosen Dominates Giants: Lakins Shines and Bullpen Secures Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Chosen Dominates Giants in Game One of Doubleheader<\/h2>\n\nSANTO DOMINGO \u2013 A standout performance by debut pitcher Travis Lakins propelled the Leones del Escogido to a 4-1 victory over the Gigantes del Cibao this Friday in the first game of a doubleheader held at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal stadium.\n\nLakins, who had a solid five-inning outing allowing one run, earned the victory. The pitcher struck out five batters and conceded one walk, allowing only two hits.\n\nThe Escogido bullpen also played a crucial role, with Rolddy Mu\u00f1oz, Jacob Barnes, Fernando Abad, and Jimmy Cordero combining to limit the Giants to a single hit. Cordero secured the save, retiring the three batters he faced.\n\nEmilio Vargas was the losing pitcher, after allowing three runs in four innings.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How the Races Were Scored<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Giants scored their only run in the first inning, thanks to a double by Johan Rojas, who then advanced to third and scored on a groundout by Deyvison De los Santos.\n\nThe Escogido tied the game in the third inning, with a double by Jos\u00e9 Marmolejos, followed by a single by Chadwick Trump and a sacrifice fly by Jason Dom\u00ednguez.\n\nIn the fourth inning, the Lions took the lead with consecutive singles by H\u00e9ctor Rodr\u00edguez and Jorge Mateo, who scored thanks to a double by Gio Urshela.\n\nFranchy Cordero added one more run for the home team in the sixth inning with a solo home run.\n\nWith this victory, the Escogido rises to second place in the standings with a record of 11-12. The Giants, for their part, remain in the basement with 8-13.\n\nUrshela went 1-4 with a double and two RBIs; Cordero went 1-3 with a home run, one RBI and one run scored; Marmolejos went 1-3 with a double and a run scored, and Mateo went 1-3 with a run scored.\n\nFor the Giants, Rojas stood out with a double, a run scored, and a stolen base, and Kelvin Guti\u00e9rrez, 3-1.\n\nThe Lions and Giants will face each other again at 7:00 PM in the second game of the doubleheader.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chosen Dominates Giants in Game One of Doubleheader SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 A standout performance by debut pitcher Travis Lakins propelled the Leones del Escogido to a 4-1 victory over the Gigantes del Cibao this Friday in the first game of a doubleheader held at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal stadium. Lakins, who had a solid five-inning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,1048,3875,10503],"class_list":{"0":"post-84383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-leones-del-escogido","11":"tag-travis-lakins"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84383","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=84383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}