{"id":98957,"date":"2025-12-29T04:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/leones-del-escogido-sign-jose-urquidy-to-bolster-the-postseason\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T04:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:59:19","slug":"leones-del-escogido-sign-jose-urquidy-to-bolster-the-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/leones-del-escogido-sign-jose-urquidy-to-bolster-the-postseason\/","title":{"rendered":"Leones del Escogido Sign Jos\u00e9 Urquidy to Bolster the Postseason"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO.\u2013 The Leones del Escogido have confirmed the incorporation of right-handed pitcher Jos\u00e9 Urquidy for the postseason phase of the Dominican professional baseball tournament.\n\nThe Scarlet team&#8217;s Baseball Operations management made the news official, adding a luxury reinforcement for the crucial Round Robin.\n\n<h2>Urquidy&#8217;s Experience and Numbers<\/h2>\n\nUrquidy, aged 30, arrives with a solid resume of six seasons in the Major Leagues, where he pitched between 2019 and 2025.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mark of 27-16<\/li><li>Effectiveness of 4.00<\/li><li>1.15 WHIP<\/li><li>329 strikeouts in 407.1 innings<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nHe spent most of his MLB career with the Houston Astros.\n\nThe Mexican pitcher was part of the Houston team that won the 2022 World Series, standing out with a relevant performance against the Philadelphia Phillies.\n\nIn that game, he pitched three scoreless innings, allowing only one hit and striking out four batters in the Fall Classic.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Urquidy&#8217;s arrival gives us a proven pitcher with experience in high-demand scenarios. His control, maturity, and knowledge of the game strengthen our rotation from the start of the Round Robin, and we trust that he will be a key piece<\/p><cite>Carlos Pe\u00f1a, general manager<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nIn the recent fall-winter season, Urquidy participated with the Venados de Mazatl\u00e1n in the Mexican Pacific League, where he demonstrated an excellent performance.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Effectiveness of 1.09<\/li><li>0.84 WHIP<\/li><li>35 strikeouts in 33.0 innings<\/li><li>Record of 3-1<\/li><li>Batting average allowed of .183<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nIt is anticipated that Urquidy will join the rotation of the Leones del Escogido, a team with 17 national titles.\n\nThe team will begin its participation in the Round Robin this Saturday, December 27th, facing the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as at 5:00 PM at the Cibao stadium.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO.\u2013 The Leones del Escogido have confirmed the incorporation of right-handed pitcher Jos\u00e9 Urquidy for the postseason phase of the Dominican professional baseball tournament. The Scarlet team&#8217;s Baseball Operations management made the news official, adding a luxury reinforcement for the crucial Round Robin. Urquidy&#8217;s Experience and Numbers Urquidy, aged 30, arrives with a solid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,8654,888,11085],"class_list":{"0":"post-98957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jose-urquidy","10":"tag-lions","11":"tag-round-robin"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98957","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=98957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}