{"id":84967,"date":"2025-11-23T00:26:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/tapia-unstoppable-5-hits-and-estrellas-defeat-licey-7-3-in-lidom\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T00:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:26:25","slug":"tapia-unstoppable-5-hits-and-estrellas-defeat-licey-7-3-in-lidom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/tapia-unstoppable-5-hits-and-estrellas-defeat-licey-7-3-in-lidom\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapia Unstoppable: 5 Hits and Estrellas Defeat Licey 7-3 in Lidom"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO \u2013A historic night starred Raimel Tapia, becoming the ninth player in the history of the Estrellas Orientales to connect five hits in the same game. This outstanding performance was key in the 7-3 victory over the Tigres del Licey, within the framework of the tournament dedicated to Juan Marichal and in dispute of the Banreservas Cup.Tapia, demonstrating his great moment, finished the day with an impeccable 5-5 mark, including a run scored, a double, and a run batted in. The player punished four different pitchers from the opposing team, showing his versatility and offensive ability.His first two hits were against Cameron Gann in the first and third innings. In the fifth inning, he hit a double against Ryan Watson. Then, he added another hit against Luis Fr\u00edas in the seventh inning, and culminated his stellar performance against Wander Suero.The last player to achieve a 5-5 performance in the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM) was Julio Carreras, of the Gigantes del Cibao, on November 28, 2023, precisely against the Estrellas Orientales. The first to achieve this feat with the greens was Papito Mateo, on June 11, 1954, according to the Record Book of F\u00e9lix Garc\u00eda Estrella.With this triumph, the Estrellas Orientales end a streak of four consecutive defeats and take a 3-2 lead in the particular series against the Licey. In addition, they add their fifth victory as visitors.\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Performances from the mound<\/h2>\nOscar de la Cruz was the starting pitcher for the Estrellas, working for 3.1 innings, allowing five hits and three runs (one earned), with four strikeouts.Jhan Mari\u00f1ez (1-1) earned the victory, dominating the seventh inning with two strikeouts.For the Licey, Cameron Gann allowed six hits and three earned runs in 2.2 innings, including a home run.Luis Fr\u00edas (0-1) took the loss by allowing a run in just two-thirds of an inning.\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured Offensives<\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>By Stars:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Raimel Tapia: 5-5, 1 run, 1 double, 1 RBI<\/li><li>Josh Lester: 4-2, double, RBI, walk<\/li><li>Robinson Can\u00f3: 4-1, RBI, walk<\/li><li>Ernesto Mart\u00ednez Jr.: 1-1<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>By Licey:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cristian Adames: 4-2<\/li><li>Mel Rojas Jr.: 3-1, 2 runs, 1 RBI, 1 walk<\/li><li>\u00c1ngel Ortiz: 4-1, double, RBI<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tournament Overview<\/h2>\nThe \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as continue to lead the championship, despite having seen their streak of nine consecutive victories interrupted after falling to the Gigantes.The standings are completed with: Toros del Este (13-11), Leones del Escogido (11-14), Gigantes del Cibao (10-13), Estrellas Orientales (11-16) and Tigres del Licey (9-15), who are going through a streak of four losses.\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sunday Games<\/h2>\nEagles vs. Escogido \u2013 Quisqueya Stadium, 4:00 p.m.Toros vs. Gigantes \u2013 San Francisco de Macor\u00eds, 5:00 p. m.Licey vs. Estrellas \u2013 San Pedro de Macor\u00eds, 5:00 p.m.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO \u2013A historic night starred Raimel Tapia, becoming the ninth player in the history of the Estrellas Orientales to connect five hits in the same game. This outstanding performance was key in the 7-3 victory over the Tigres del Licey, within the framework of the tournament dedicated to Juan Marichal and in dispute of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[7848,1279,10584,8862],"class_list":{"0":"post-84967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-estrellas-orientales","9":"tag-lidom","10":"tag-raimel-tapia","11":"tag-tigres-licey"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84967","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=84967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}