{"id":85722,"date":"2025-11-23T21:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/gigantes-cibao-crush-toros-demolishing-offense-and-rise-in-lidom\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:40:35","slug":"gigantes-cibao-crush-toros-demolishing-offense-and-rise-in-lidom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/gigantes-cibao-crush-toros-demolishing-offense-and-rise-in-lidom\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantes Cibao Crush Toros: Demolishing Offense and Rise in LIDOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Gigantes del Cibao Crush Toros del Este with Unleashed Offense<\/h2>\n\nSAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS \u2013 Los Gigantes del Cibao demonstrated their offensive power by defeating the Toros del Este with a score of 14-6 this Sunday at the Juli\u00e1n Javier Stadium. This victory marks the team&#8217;s third consecutive win in the 2025-26 season of the Dominican Baseball League, dedicated to Juan Marichal and for the Banreservas Cup.\n\nThe outstanding performance of Johan Rojas and Eddison Paulino was key to the Giants&#8217; victory. The combination of both players produced a total of eight hits, six runs scored, and five RBIs, leading the team&#8217;s offense.\n\nThe positive result raised the Giants&#8217; record to 11-13, allowing them to move up to third place in the standings. They are now nine games behind the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, who lead the league with a 20-4 record.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Star Performances in Batting<\/h2>\n\n\nJohan Rojas had an impressive night, batting 5-4, including a double, three runs scored, and two RBIs. Eddison Paulino also shined with a 5-4 performance, a home run, three runs scored, and three RBIs.\n\nCarlos Peguero hit a home run, the 49th of his career in the LIDOM, leaving him only one away from tying \u00c1ngel Pe\u00f1a and Winston \u201cChilote\u201d Llenas in the historical home run ranking.\n\nOther players who stood out in the Giants&#8217; offense were Leurys Garc\u00eda (5-2, two runs scored), Marco Hern\u00e1ndez (5-3, run scored, double and two walks) and Julio Carreras (4-1, run scored and RBI).\n\n<h2>Los Toros del Este Respond<\/h2>\n\nFor the Toros del Este, who now have a record of 13-12, F\u00e9lix Reyes hit a home run and drove in two runs (4-1), while Rafael Lantigua contributed a home run and two RBIs (2-2). Manuel Pe\u00f1a also contributed with an RBI (3-1).\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Game Details<\/h2>\n\n\nThe losing pitcher for the Bulls was Aaron Brooks (1-2), while Aidan Anderson (1-0) took the win for the Giants, thanks to an effective relief appearance.\n\nThe current league standings show the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as at the top (20-4), followed by the Toros del Este (13-12), the Gigantes del Cibao (11-13), the Estrellas Orientales (12-16), the Leones del Escogido (11-15) and the Tigres del Licey (9-16).","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gigantes del Cibao Crush Toros del Este with Unleashed Offense SAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS \u2013 Los Gigantes del Cibao demonstrated their offensive power by defeating the Toros del Este with a score of 14-6 this Sunday at the Juli\u00e1n Javier Stadium. This victory marks the team&#8217;s third consecutive win in the 2025-26 season of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,5865,1117,10621],"class_list":{"0":"post-85722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-gigantes-del-cibao","10":"tag-home-runs","11":"tag-johan-rojas"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85722","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=85722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}