{"id":87998,"date":"2025-11-25T23:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/toros-del-este-roar-they-dominate-escogido-and-secure-2nd-place-in-lidom\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:17:59","slug":"toros-del-este-roar-they-dominate-escogido-and-secure-2nd-place-in-lidom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/toros-del-este-roar-they-dominate-escogido-and-secure-2nd-place-in-lidom\/","title":{"rendered":"Toros del Este roar: They dominate Escogido and secure 2nd place in LIDOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Toros del Este Dominate Leones del Escogido at Quisqueya<\/h2>\n\nSANTO DOMINGO \u2013 Los Toros del Este demonstrated their superiority by defeating the Leones del Escogido with a score of 4-1 at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium. The team from La Romana, with a timely offense and solid pitching, consolidated its position in second place in the tournament and extended its lead in the particular series.\n\nWith this triumph, the Bulls improved their record to 14-13, recovering after two consecutive defeats. Furthermore, they extended their dominance over the Lions to 7-1 in their direct confrontations. The Leones del Escogido, for their part, now have a record of 11-16.\n\n<h2>Mu\u00f1oz and De La Cruz lead the bullfighting offensive<\/h2>\n\nYairo Mu\u00f1oz continued his good moment by connecting his tenth double of the season and driving in his 12th run. Bryan De La Cruz also stood out, driving in his 20th run and solidifying himself as the league&#8217;s RBI leader. De La Cruz extended his streak to eight consecutive games hitting and producing or scoring at least one run.\n\nThe newly incorporated Tres Barrera had a standout debut with a run-scoring single. Rafael Lantigua shined with three hits, an RBI, and a stolen base.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Imposing Bullfighting Pitching<\/h2>\n\n\nReliever Janser Lara (1-0) earned the victory, working 1.1 perfect innings. Joe Corbett earned his second save of the campaign. The loss went to the Lions&#8217; starter, Norge Ruiz (0-1).\n\nThe Toros&#8217; pitching staff limited the Leones to only 2 hits in 8 innings with runners in scoring position, leaving eight runners on base.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How the races were made<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Leones took the lead in the first inning with a run-scoring single by Gio Urshela, scoring H\u00e9ctor Rodr\u00edguez. The Toros responded in the second inning with a three-run rally, driven by a double from Yairo Mu\u00f1oz and a single from Tres Barrera. A surprise bunt by Rafael Lantigua allowed Barrera to score, putting the score at 3-1.\n\nIn the fourth inning, Bryan De La Cruz hit a double that drove in Gilberto Celestino, setting the final score at 4-1.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured Players<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Toros del Este:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nYairo Mu\u00f1oz: 4-2, double, RBI, scored\n\n\n<p><strong>Leones del Escogido:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Erik Gonz\u00e1lez: 3-3, double<\/li><li>Gio Urshela: 4-3, RBI<\/li><li>Franchy Cordero and Yamaico Navarro: 1 hit each<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next commitment<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Toros return this Wednesday to their home in La Romana, where they will receive the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as starting at 7:30 p.m., with Justin Courtney scheduled to open.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toros del Este Dominate Leones del Escogido at Quisqueya SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 Los Toros del Este demonstrated their superiority by defeating the Leones del Escogido with a score of 4-1 at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium. The team from La Romana, with a timely offense and solid pitching, consolidated its position in second place in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,1279,888,5271],"class_list":{"0":"post-87998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-lidom","10":"tag-lions","11":"tag-toros-del-este"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87998","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=87998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}