{"id":93908,"date":"2025-12-06T04:56:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T08:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/gigantes-del-cibao-defeat-aguilas-7-3-in-sfm-lidom-on-fire-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T04:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T08:56:33","slug":"gigantes-del-cibao-defeat-aguilas-7-3-in-sfm-lidom-on-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/gigantes-del-cibao-defeat-aguilas-7-3-in-sfm-lidom-on-fire-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantes del Cibao Defeat \u00c1guilas 7-3 in SFM: LIDOM on Fire!"},"content":{"rendered":"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.\n\nKelvin Guti\u00e9rrez led the attack with his batting, while Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. and Leury Garc\u00eda contributed important hits to secure the victory.\n\nWith this victory, the Giants tie 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 mark of 6-3.\n\n<h2>Guti\u00e9rrez, key figure<\/h2>\n\nKelvin Guti\u00e9rrez shined in the game by hitting his 12th home run in the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM). This solo home run, hit in the second inning against pitcher Jorge Tavarez, 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), six strikeouts and one home run. Steven Moya relieved him, pitching 2.1 innings with four hits, two runs, two walks and three strikeouts.\n\nAlberto Pacheco (1-1) took the victory, after an impeccable job in the fifth inning, retiring the three batters he faced, including a strikeout.\n\nFor the \u00c1guilas, Steward Berroa connected a hit in four at-bats, Leody Taveras went 2-1 with a double, run scored and walk, Ezequiel Dur\u00e1n batted 2-3 with a double and two RBIs, and John Garc\u00eda contributed a double 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\">Next Matchday<\/h2>\n\n\nThe action continues this Saturday with the following matchups:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00c1guilas vs. Escogido \u2013 4:00 p. m.<\/li><li>Licey vs. Gigantes \u2013 5:00 p. m.<\/li><li>Estrellas vs. Toros \u2013 7:30 p. m.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Positions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Eagles: 25-9 (day 33 at the top)<\/li><li>Bulls: 19-16<\/li><li>Stars: 16-20<\/li><li>Giants: 15-19<\/li><li>Licey: 15-20<\/li><li>Escogido: 14-21<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 batting, while Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. and Leury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1103,5865,3905,1279],"class_list":{"0":"post-93908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-gigantes-del-cibao","10":"tag-jonron","11":"tag-lidom"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93908","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=93908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}