{"id":97037,"date":"2025-12-20T21:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/de-los-santos-boosts-giants-key-victory-and-fight-for-the-lidom-playoff\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:24:36","slug":"de-los-santos-boosts-giants-key-victory-and-fight-for-the-lidom-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/de-los-santos-boosts-giants-key-victory-and-fight-for-the-lidom-playoff\/","title":{"rendered":"De los Santos Boosts Giants: Key Victory and Fight for the LIDOM Playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS &#8211; Deyvison de los Santos shined with the bat, connecting his fifth home run of the season and leading the Gigantes del Cibao to a 4-1 victory over the Leones del Escogido.\n\nThe match, corresponding to the 2025-26 Dominican Baseball League (LIDOM) tournament, was played on Saturday and was dedicated to Juan Marichal, with the Banreservas Cup at stake.\n\nThis triumph is crucial for the Giants, who now tie the Tigres del Licey with a record of 21-26, remaining only half a game behind the fourth qualifying position. The excitement increases as the end of the Regular Series approaches, with only three games remaining.\n\nThe tension intensifies, as Gigantes and Licey will face each other in the last two games of the regular round, promising adrenaline-filled duels: on Monday in San Francisco de Macor\u00eds and on Tuesday in Santo Domingo.\n\nDe los Santos ignited the offense in the fourth inning with a two-run homer, driving in Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. from first base, against Tyler Danish&#8217;s pitches.\n\nDanish, who worked 3.1 innings, was charged with the loss. He allowed two hits, two earned runs, one walk and struck out three batters, including De los Santos&#8217; home run.\n\nCristopher Molina had an outstanding performance from the mound, pitching 3.2 scoreless innings. He allowed four hits, gave up one walk, and struck out two opponents.\n\nBlake Wilman (2-0) took the win by securing the last out of the fourth inning.\n\n<h2>Outstanding Bat Performances<\/h2>\n\nFor the Leones del Escogido, Junior Lake, Erik Gonz\u00e1lez and S\u00f3crates Brito connected a hit in four at-bats; Elier Hern\u00e1ndez went 1-1 with a run scored; Freudy Batista drove in a run, while Pedro Severino and Jonathan Ara\u00faz also contributed hits.\n\nRegarding the Gigantes del Cibao, Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. hit a double and scored in four at-bats; Deyvison de los Santos finished with two hits in four at-bats, including a home run, a run scored, and two RBIs; Nicol\u00e1s Torres went 2-3 with a run scored and a walk, and Julio Carreras contributed two hits and an RBI.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming Meetings<\/h2>\n\n\nThis Sunday, the Gigantes del Cibao will visit the Leones del Escogido in Santo Domingo.\n\nIn addition, the Estrellas Orientales will face the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as in Santiago from 4:00 p.m., while the Tigres del Licey will face the Toros del Este in La Romana starting at 5:00 in the afternoon.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS &#8211; Deyvison de los Santos shined with the bat, connecting his fifth home run of the season and leading the Gigantes del Cibao to a 4-1 victory over the Leones del Escogido. The match, corresponding to the 2025-26 Dominican Baseball League (LIDOM) tournament, was played on Saturday and was dedicated to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,11133,5865,1279],"class_list":{"0":"post-97037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-deyvison-de-los-santos","10":"tag-gigantes-del-cibao","11":"tag-lidom"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97037","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=97037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}