{"id":96892,"date":"2025-12-20T00:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/estrellas-orientales-defeat-gigantes-in-extra-innings-lidom-on-fire\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:28:23","slug":"estrellas-orientales-defeat-gigantes-in-extra-innings-lidom-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/estrellas-orientales-defeat-gigantes-in-extra-innings-lidom-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Estrellas Orientales defeat Gigantes in extra innings; LIDOM on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Estrellas Orientales Defeat Gigantes del Cibao in Extra Innings<\/h2>\n\n\nIn a meeting full of emotion and tension, the Estrellas Orientales showed their mettle by defeating the Gigantes del Cibao with a score of 4-3 in 12 innings. The game, played at the Tetelo Vargas Stadium, kept the fans on the edge of their seats.\n\nThe victory was defined in the bottom of the twelfth inning. With the bases loaded, Almonte, acting as a pinch hitter, received a walk against pitcher Routzahn, which allowed the Estrellas to secure a crucial victory in their quest for qualification.\n\nThis triumph raises the Stars&#8217; record to 22-25, consolidating them in third place in the standings, tied with the Leones del Escogido.\n\nThe defeat fell on Yaqui Rivera, while the victory went to Oddy N\u00fa\u00f1ez.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blazing Pitching Duel<\/h2>\n\n\nThe game featured a standout pitching duel between the starting pitchers. Oscar de la Cruz, for the Estrellas, pitched five innings, allowing four hits and striking out six batters. Daniel Mengden, for the Gigantes, also worked five innings, allowing four hits and striking out five.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Offensive Figures<\/h2>\n\n\nFor the Giants, Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. went 2-for-5, Nomar Mazara went 2-for-4, and Melvin Mercedes hit 1-for-2 with a home run. For the Stars, Rodolfo Castro went 2-for-3, Vidal Bruj\u00e1n went 1-for-3, and Raimel Tapia went 1-for-5.\n\nIn the next game, the Leones del Escogido will visit the Gigantes del Cibao, the Toros del Este will face the Tigres del Licey, and the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as will play against the Estrellas Orientales.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estrellas Orientales Defeat Gigantes del Cibao in Extra Innings In a meeting full of emotion and tension, the Estrellas Orientales showed their mettle by defeating the Gigantes del Cibao with a score of 4-3 in 12 innings. The game, played at the Tetelo Vargas Stadium, kept the fans on the edge of their seats. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,6684,8004,1279],"class_list":{"0":"post-96892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cibao-giants","10":"tag-eastern-stars","11":"tag-lidom"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96892","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=96892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}