{"id":87948,"date":"2025-11-25T20:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/tapia-and-mendoza-stars-and-eagles-take-home-lidom-week-mvp\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:18:32","slug":"tapia-and-mendoza-stars-and-eagles-take-home-lidom-week-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/tapia-and-mendoza-stars-and-eagles-take-home-lidom-week-mvp\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapia and Mendoza: Stars and Eagles take home LIDOM Week MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 The Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM) has announced the most outstanding players of the week of November 19-23, 2025, in the fifth installment of the awards presented by Ron Ozama.\n\n<h2>Raimel Tapia and Abdiel Mendoza, the MVPs of the Week<\/h2>\n\nRaimel Tapia, outfielder for the Estrellas Orientales, and Abdiel Mendoza, pitcher for the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, were the recognized players.\n\nTapia receives this award for the first time in his career, while Mendoza adds the 19th MVP selection for an \u00c1guilas player, a record since the league took over the election in the 2022-23 season.\n\n<h2>Tapia: Batting Dominance<\/h2>\n\nThe outfielder for the Estrellas Orientales was the offensive figure of the week, obtaining 60 votes from the 111 journalists who participated.\n\nTapia achieved a batting average of .458, with 11 hits in 24 at-bats, five RBIs, 15 bases reached, and an outstanding offensive line:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>OBP: .458<\/li><li>SLG: .625<\/li><li>OPS: 1.083<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nThis is the seventh time a Stars player has received this weekly distinction since 2022.\n\n<p>Other players who received votes were:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Yairo Mu\u00f1oz (Toros), 25 votes<\/li><li>Steward Berroa (\u00c1guilas), 9 votes<\/li><li>Eddison Paulino (Gigantes), 6 votes<\/li><li>Johan Rojas (Gigantes), 6 votes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2>Mendoza: Shining on the Mont\u00edculo<\/h2>\n\nThe Panamanian pitcher of the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, Abdiel Mendoza, received 65 votes.\n\n<p>Your competitors were:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Albert Abreu (Tigres del Licey), 19 votes<\/li><li>Jos\u00e9 Ure\u00f1a (Toros del Este), 8 votes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nMendoza had an outstanding performance:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>5.0 innings without allowing hits or runs<\/li><li>One ticket<\/li><li>Four strikeouts<\/li><li>WHIP of 0.20<\/li><li>ERA of 0.00<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nHe is the third Panamanian to win this award, following in the footsteps of Paolo Espino (2023-24) and Johan Camargo (2022-23).\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recognition for Celestino and Gavin<\/h2>\n\n\nIn the ceremony, the most outstanding players of the previous week were also honored.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gilberto Celestino (Toros del Este)<\/li><li>Grant Gavin (Leones del Escogido)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nCelestino received his award from the hands of Jesus Mejia, general manager of the Bulls, while Gavin was recognized by Jose Gomez Frias, director of the Lions.\n\nLIDOM also gave special recognitions to journalists Jos\u00e9 Antonio Mena, Marcos S\u00e1nchez and Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Genao (Moi).","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 The Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM) has announced the most outstanding players of the week of November 19-23, 2025, in the fifth installment of the awards presented by Ron Ozama. Raimel Tapia and Abdiel Mendoza, the MVPs of the Week Raimel Tapia, outfielder for the Estrellas Orientales, and Abdiel Mendoza, pitcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[10696,1279,10697,10584],"class_list":{"0":"post-87948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-abdiel-mendoza","9":"tag-lidom","10":"tag-mvp-of-the-week","11":"tag-raimel-tapia"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87948","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=87948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}