{"id":96275,"date":"2025-12-17T04:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/munguia-drives-in-stars-bases-loaded-single-defeats-licey-4-2-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T04:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:57:06","slug":"munguia-drives-in-stars-bases-loaded-single-defeats-licey-4-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/munguia-drives-in-stars-bases-loaded-single-defeats-licey-4-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mungu\u00eda Drives in Stars: Bases-Loaded Single Defeats Licey 4-2"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo \u2013 Ismael Mungu\u00eda became the hero of the day by connecting a single with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh inning, driving in two runs that sealed the victory of the Estrellas Orientales over the Tigres del Licey with a score of 4-2. This exciting encounter took place at the Tetelo Vargas Stadium, marking the first game of the doubleheader of the 2025-2026 LIDOM championship.\n\nWith this triumph, the Estrellas improved their record to 19-25 and placed fourth in the standings, tying with the Leones del Escogido in a close battle for a postseason spot.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Decision of the meeting<\/h2>\n\n\nGregory Santos (1-0) earned the victory from the mound, while Enyel de los Santos (0-1) took the loss. Patrick Weigel secured his fourth save by pitching a flawless one and one-third innings, striking out four.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Game Development<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Tigres del Licey took the lead in the third inning. Francisco Mej\u00eda hit a double that drove in two runs, bringing Luis Barrera and Gustavo N\u00fa\u00f1ez to the plate. Las Estrellas responded in the bottom of the same inning, also with two outs.\n\nRodolfo Castro hit a solo home run to left field. Following that, Ismael Mungu\u00eda hit a single and scored thanks to a triple by Jorge Mateo.\n\nIn the fifth inning, Licey loaded the bases, but Jefry Yan dominated Mel Rojas with a line drive to left field, thwarting the threat.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Decisive Hit<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Stars&#8217; offense roared again in the seventh chapter against Enyel de los Santos. After a strikeout of Francisco Pe\u00f1a, Raimel Tapia, Robinson Can\u00f3, and Dairon Blanco hit consecutive singles, loading the bases.\n\nAlthough De los Santos struck out Rodolfo Castro for the second out, Ismael Mungu\u00eda responded with a hit to right field, driving in Tapia and Cano and setting the final score at 4-2.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Qualifying Overview<\/h2>\n\n\nThe victory allows the Estrellas to take advantage of the defeat of the Leones del Escogido against the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as and stay firm on their way to the next phase of the tournament.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo \u2013 Ismael Mungu\u00eda became the hero of the day by connecting a single with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh inning, driving in two runs that sealed the victory of the Estrellas Orientales over the Tigres del Licey with a score of 4-2. This exciting encounter took place at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[8004,11087,1279,8862],"class_list":{"0":"post-96275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-eastern-stars","9":"tag-ismael-munguia","10":"tag-lidom","11":"tag-tigres-licey"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96275","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=96275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}