{"id":94131,"date":"2025-12-07T04:56:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/gigantes-del-cibao-defeat-licey-4-2-garcia-drives-in-run-and-breaks-tie\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:56:59","slug":"gigantes-del-cibao-defeat-licey-4-2-garcia-drives-in-run-and-breaks-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/gigantes-del-cibao-defeat-licey-4-2-garcia-drives-in-run-and-breaks-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantes del Cibao Defeat Licey 4-2: Garc\u00eda Drives In Run and Breaks Tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Gigantes del Cibao defeat Tigres del Licey and climb positions<\/h2>\n\nSANTO DOMINGO \u2013 The Gigantes del Cibao defeated the Tigres del Licey 4-2 this Friday at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium, breaking the tie that both teams maintained in the standings of the autumn-winter tournament.\n\nLuis Garc\u00eda was key in the offensive, driving in two runs, while Samad Taylor touched home plate three times, contributing significantly to the Giants&#8217; victory.\n\nWith this result, the Giants advance to a 16-19 record, consolidating in fourth place in the standings. For their part, the Licey descends to fifth place with a record of 15-20.\n\nThe Giants&#8217; pitching was fundamental, limiting the Tigers&#8217; offense to only three hits during the game.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The game<\/h3>\n\n\nThe Giants took the lead from the start of the game. In the first inning, a single by Samad Taylor and an error by pitcher Adonis Medina allowed Luis Garc\u00eda to drive in the first run with a sacrifice fly.\n\nIn the third inning, another sacrifice fly, this time by Leury Garc\u00eda, combined with a defensive error, extended the lead to 2-0, with Taylor scoring again.\n\nThe Tigers reacted in the seventh inning. A double by Francisco Mej\u00eda and a single by Cal Stevenson reduced the difference to 2-1. A sacrifice fly by Armando \u00c1lvarez tied the score 2-2.\n\nHowever, the Giants responded immediately in the bottom of the seventh. Luis Garc\u00eda connected on a single, and a sacrifice fly from Deyvison De Los Santos set the final score at 4-2.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Domain on the heap<\/h3>\n\n\nThe Giants&#8217; pitching staff controlled the game, limiting Licey to just three hits and frustrating any comeback attempts by the Tigers.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming commitments<\/h3>\n\n\nThe teams will face each other again this weekend in a crucial day for the classification&#8230;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gigantes del Cibao defeat Tigres del Licey and climb positions SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 The Gigantes del Cibao defeated the Tigres del Licey 4-2 this Friday at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium, breaking the tie that both teams maintained in the standings of the autumn-winter tournament. Luis Garc\u00eda was key in the offensive, driving in two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,5865,1244,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-94131","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-tigers","11":"tag-victory"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94131","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=94131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}