{"id":93875,"date":"2025-12-05T23:18:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/gigantes-del-cibao-defeat-aguilas-7-3-in-sfm-lidom-on-fire\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T23:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:18:40","slug":"gigantes-del-cibao-defeat-aguilas-7-3-in-sfm-lidom-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/gigantes-del-cibao-defeat-aguilas-7-3-in-sfm-lidom-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantes del Cibao Defeat \u00c1guilas 7-3 in SFM: LIDOM on Fire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Gigantes del Cibao defeat \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as<\/h2>\n\nSAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS \u2013 The Cibao Giants&#8217; offense demonstrated its power this Friday, securing a 7-3 victory over the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as in the continuation of the 2025-26 autumn-winter tournament, dedicated to Juan Marichal and in dispute for the Banreservas Cup.\n\nKelvin Guti\u00e9rrez led the attack with his bat, while Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. and Leury Garc\u00eda contributed important hits to secure the victory.\n\nWith this victory, the Giants tie again with the Tigres del Licey in the standings, both with a record of 15-19. Despite the defeat, the Eagles maintain their dominance in the Copa del Cibao, with a record of 6-3.\n\nGuti\u00e9rrez shone by connecting his number 12 home run in the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM), a solo hit in the second inning against Jorge Tavarez. This home run allowed him to tie Ty Wigginton and Henry Urrutia on the franchise&#8217;s historical home run list.\n\nJorge Tavarez, pitcher for the Eagles, took the loss (2-1) after pitching 4.2 innings, allowing seven hits, three runs (two earned), with six strikeouts and one home run, facing 21 batters.\n\nSteven Moya relieved Tavarez, pitching 2.1 innings, allowing four hits, two runs, two walks, and three strikeouts.\n\nAlberto Pacheco (1-1) took the victory, after an impeccable performance in the fifth inning, retiring the three batters he faced with a strikeout.\n\nFor the Eagles, Steward Berroa went 1-4 with a run; Leody Taveras went 1-2 with a double, a run, and a walk; Ezequiel Dur\u00e1n batted 2-3 with a double and two RBIs; and John Garc\u00eda contributed a double with an RBI from the bench.\n\nRegarding the Giants, Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. went 1-for-4 with a run and a double; Deyvison De los Santos went 1-for-3 with a run, an RBI, and a walk; Hanser Alberto drove in two runs as a pinch hitter; and Guti\u00e9rrez finished 1-for-4 with a home run, a run, and an RBI.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming Meetings<\/h2>\n\n\nThe action continues this Saturday with the following matchups:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u00c1guilas vs. Escogido \u2013 4:00 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Licey vs. Gigantes \u2013 5:00 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Estrellas vs. Toros \u2013 7:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Positions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Eagles: 25-9 (33 days at the top)<\/li>\n<li>Bulls: 19-16<\/li>\n<li>Stars: 16-20<\/li>\n<li>Giants: 15-19<\/li>\n<li>Licey: 15-20<\/li>\n<li>Escogido: 14-21<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gigantes del Cibao defeat \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as SAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS \u2013 The Cibao Giants&#8217; offense demonstrated its power this Friday, securing a 7-3 victory over the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as in the continuation of the 2025-26 autumn-winter tournament, dedicated to Juan Marichal and in dispute for the Banreservas Cup. Kelvin Guti\u00e9rrez led the attack with his bat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,1103,5865,3905],"class_list":{"0":"post-93875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-eagles","10":"tag-gigantes-del-cibao","11":"tag-jonron"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93875","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=93875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}