{"id":97277,"date":"2025-12-21T22:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/toros-del-este-defeats-licey-9-6-closes-series-and-adds-victory-26\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:32:17","slug":"toros-del-este-defeats-licey-9-6-closes-series-and-adds-victory-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/toros-del-este-defeats-licey-9-6-closes-series-and-adds-victory-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Toros del Este defeats Licey 9-6, closes series and adds victory 26"},"content":{"rendered":"LA ROMANA \u2013 Luis Liberato had an outstanding offensive performance, leading the Toros del Este to a 9-6 victory over the Tigres del Licey at the Francisco A. Micheli Stadium. The game, corresponding to the 2025-2026 autumn-winter baseball tournament of the LIDOM, saw Liberato hit a home run, a double, and a single.\n\nThis triumph represents the team’s 26th victory of the season and the 14th at home, ending a streak of five consecutive losses. In addition, the Bulls dominated the head-to-head series against the Tigers with a score of 7-3, while the Licey records a 21-27 record.\n\nLiberato led the Bulls’ attack, connecting his first home run of the season, number 40 for the team, who lead the league in this aspect. The outfielder extended his offensive streak by hitting in six of his first seven games and added his third consecutive game driving in runs.\n\nFrom the mound, Greg Minier (2-0, 0.00) took the victory, throwing 1.2 innings without allowing runs, with one hit and two strikeouts. C\u00e9sar Valdez (2-1, 4.38) took the loss, allowing four runs and five hits in 2.1 innings.\n\n\n

The game development<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Toros took the lead early in the game with a two-run home run by Liberato in the first inning. In the second inning, they added another run thanks to a sacrifice bunt by Tres Barrera and a sacrifice fly by Rafael Lantigua, establishing a 3-0 lead.\n\nThe Tigres responded in the third inning with two runs driven in by Ronny Mauricio and Mel Rojas Jr., closing the gap in the score (3-2). However, the Toros reacted immediately with two more runs, including a run-scoring single by Bryan Lavastida and a defensive error by Sergio Alc\u00e1ntara, extending the lead to 5-2.\n\nThe Licey scored a run in the fourth inning, but the Toros continued their offense with a double by Liberato and a single by Rudy Mart\u00edn Jr., making the score 7-3. In the seventh inning, the Toros scored two more runs to secure the 9-6 victory.\n\n

Players’ Performance<\/h2>\n\nFor the Toros, Luis Liberato went 3-for-5, with a home run, a double, three RBIs, and two runs scored; Bryan De La Cruz went 2-for-3, with one RBI and two runs scored; Rudy Mart\u00edn Jr. went 2-for-5, with one RBI and one run scored; Bryan Lavastida went 1-for-4, with one RBI; and Eloy Jim\u00e9nez went 1-for-3, with one run scored and two walks.\n\n

For the Tigres, Ronny Mauricio went 2-for-5, with a double, two RBIs, and a run scored; Gustavo N\u00fa\u00f1ez went 3-for-5, with a double, two RBIs, and two runs scored; and Mel Rojas Jr. went 1-for-5, with one RBI.<\/p>\n\n\n

Next meeting<\/h2>\n\n\nNext Monday, the Toros del Este will play their last home game and the penultimate of the regular season, receiving the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as. The game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the Francisco A. Micheli Stadium.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LA ROMANA \u2013 Luis Liberato had an outstanding offensive performance, leading the Toros del Este to a 9-6 victory over the Tigres del Licey at the Francisco A. Micheli Stadium. The game, corresponding to the 2025-2026 autumn-winter baseball tournament of the LIDOM, saw Liberato hit a home run, a double, and a single. This triumph […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,3493,11140,5271],"class_list":{"0":"post-97277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-licey-tigers","10":"tag-luis-liberato","11":"tag-toros-del-este"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97277","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=97277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}