{"id":99128,"date":"2025-12-29T22:46:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/leones-del-escogido-come-back-against-gigantes-and-remain-undefeated-in-round-robin\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T22:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:46:54","slug":"leones-del-escogido-come-back-against-gigantes-and-remain-undefeated-in-round-robin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/leones-del-escogido-come-back-against-gigantes-and-remain-undefeated-in-round-robin\/","title":{"rendered":"Leones del Escogido come back against Gigantes and remain undefeated in Round Robin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leones del Escogido defeat Gigantes del Cibao in an exciting match<\/h2>\n\n\nSAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS \u2013 A three-run rally in the eighth inning propelled the Leones del Escogido to a 4-2 victory over the Gigantes del Cibao, in a vibrant game played on Monday at the Juli\u00e1n Javier stadium. This triumph consolidates the undefeated record of the melenudos in the Round Robin of the Dominican professional baseball tournament.\n\nThe current national and Caribbean champions, now holding a 3-0 record, demonstrated their offensive prowess by overcoming a 2-1 deficit in the eighth inning.\n\nWith two outs and Raimel Tapia on first, Jorge Mateo hit an infield hit that advanced Tapia to second. Elier Hern\u00e1ndez responded with a double that drove in both runners, turning the score around. Subsequently, Hern\u00e1ndez scored thanks to a single by Pedro Severino.\n\nThe Lions&#8217; first run came in the fifth inning, with a single by Socrates Brito. The Giants had taken the lead early with a solo home run by Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. in the first inning and added another run in the fifth with a double by Hanser Alberto.\n\nElier Hernandez hit a double to center field that drove in both runners, turning the score around.\n\nFrom the bullpen, Aneurys Zabala pitched a scoreless inning with two strikeouts, maintaining the lead for the Lions. The victory went to Carlos Teller (1-0), while Wandy Peralta (0-1) took the loss.\n\nPatrick Weigel (1) closed the game without allowing runs, earning the save.\n\nWith this result, the Gigantes del Cibao remain without victories in the Round Robin (0-3).\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Highlights of the meeting<\/h2>\n\n\nFor the Leones, Elier Hern\u00e1ndez went 1-3, with a double, two RBIs, and a run scored. S\u00f3crates Brito went 2-5, with one RBI. Jorge Mateo went 2-4, with a run scored, and Pedro Severino went 1-4, with one driven in.\n\nFor the Giants, Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. hit a home run, drove in a run, and scored one. Hanser Alberto finished 1-for-3, with an RBI.\n\nBoth teams will face each other again this Tuesday, starting at 7:15 PM, at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal stadium, in Santo Domingo.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leones del Escogido defeat Gigantes del Cibao in an exciting match SAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS \u2013 A three-run rally in the eighth inning propelled the Leones del Escogido to a 4-2 victory over the Gigantes del Cibao, in a vibrant game played on Monday at the Juli\u00e1n Javier stadium. This triumph consolidates the undefeated record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,1048,10973,11085],"class_list":{"0":"post-99128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-lions-of-the-chosen","11":"tag-round-robin"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99128","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=99128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}