{"id":96476,"date":"2025-12-17T23:18:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/escogido-defeats-aguilas-in-santiago-and-consolidates-third-place-in-lidom\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:18:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:18:01","slug":"escogido-defeats-aguilas-in-santiago-and-consolidates-third-place-in-lidom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/escogido-defeats-aguilas-in-santiago-and-consolidates-third-place-in-lidom\/","title":{"rendered":"Escogido defeats \u00c1guilas in Santiago and consolidates third place in LIDOM"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS \u2013 Los Leones del Escogido demonstrated their strength in the fight for the pass to the Round Robin by defeating the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as with a score of 8-5 in an exciting match held at the Cibao stadium.\n\nWith this victory, the scarlet team consolidates its record at 21-25, maintaining the tie with the Estrellas Orientales in third place in the championship. For their part, the Eagles, despite the defeat, continue to lead the table with a solid record of 30-15.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Game Development<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Escogido started off on the right foot, scoring a run in the first inning against starting pitcher Dinelson Lamet. Socrates Brito hit a double to center field and later scored thanks to a single by Yainer D\u00edaz.\n\nThe capital&#8217;s offensive continued its attack in the second inning. Franchy Cordero hit a double, advanced to third and scored after a wild pitch from Lamet. Jos\u00e9 Marmolejos followed with a double, also scoring on a passed ball.\n\nThe Eagles responded in the bottom of the second inning with a sacrifice fly from Jerar Encarnaci\u00f3n, driving in Dur\u00e1n.\n\nTravis Lakins earned the win with a stellar performance of five innings, allowing only one run, three hits, and one walk.\n\nIn the sixth episode, the Lions extended their lead. Marmolejos drove in Pedro Severino, and a double steal allowed Jonathan Ara\u00faz to score. Marmolejos scored on a single by Jonathan Guzm\u00e1n.\n\nThe \u00c1guilas reacted with a home run by Elih Marrero, but the Escogido responded with two runs in the eighth inning, driven in by a double from Marmolejos.\n\nAneurys Zabala closed the game in the ninth inning, securing the save (1). The loss went to Lamet (1-3).\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured Players<\/h2>\n\n\nFor the Escogido, Jos\u00e9 Marmolejos shined with an outstanding 4-3, including two doubles, two RBIs, two runs scored, and one stolen base. Jonathan Guzm\u00e1n contributed a 4-2 with two RBIs; S\u00f3crates Brito, 5-2 with a double and Yamaico Navarro, 5-2 with a run scored.\n\nFor the \u00c1guilas, Elih Marrero hit a home run and drove in three runs. Juan Lagares also contributed with a run batted in and a run scored.\n\nThis Thursday will be a day off in the LIDOM. The Leones del Escogido will return to action on Friday, when they will receive the Toros del Este at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal stadium, starting at 7:15 p.m.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS \u2013 Los Leones del Escogido demonstrated their strength in the fight for the pass to the Round Robin by defeating the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as with a score of 8-5 in an exciting match held at the Cibao stadium. With this victory, the scarlet team consolidates its record at 21-25, maintaining the tie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,5355,3875,1279],"class_list":{"0":"post-96476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cibao-eagles","10":"tag-leones-del-escogido","11":"tag-lidom"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96476","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=96476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}