{"id":99526,"date":"2025-12-31T04:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/jonron-de-junior-lake-propels-leones-del-escogido-to-lead-round-robin\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:56:04","slug":"jonron-de-junior-lake-propels-leones-del-escogido-to-lead-round-robin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/jonron-de-junior-lake-propels-leones-del-escogido-to-lead-round-robin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonr\u00f3n de Junior Lake propels Leones del Escogido to lead Round Robin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Junior Lake Drives the Victory for the Leones del Escogido<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A crucial two-run home run hit by Junior Lake in the seventh inning broke the tie and gave the Leones del Escogido a 3-2 victory over the Gigantes del Cibao this Tuesday. With this result, the Lions remain undefeated (4-0) and lead the round-robin tournament alone.<\/p>\n\n\nLake&#8217;s decisive hit, connected against Yovanny Cruz, traveled 388 feet through left field and reached an exit velocity of 104.8 miles per hour, marking the key point of the game.\n\nThe Lions opened the scoring in the fourth inning thanks to consecutive singles by Raimel Tapia and Jorge Mateo against Cristopher Molina. An error by left fielder Leury Garc\u00eda allowed Mateo to advance to second, and a groundout by Jos\u00e9 Marmolejos drove in Tapia for the first run.\n\nIn the fifth, the Giants threatened with bases loaded and two outs against Kenny Hern\u00e1ndez, but Francisco Mej\u00eda grounded out to second base and Jorge Mateo, with a great defensive play, made a precise throw to first to prevent the run.\n\nThe Giants&#8217; reaction came in the sixth inning, when Nicholas Torres hit a triple and scored thanks to a sacrifice fly by Leury Garc\u00eda. The Giants&#8217; second run came in the ninth inning, but Aneurys Zabala managed to preserve the lead and secure the save.\n\nCarlos Teller (2-0) took the victory, while Fernando Abad (0-1) took the loss.\n\nThe scarlet opener Radham\u00e9s Liz had an outstanding performance, pitching 4.2 innings without allowing runs, with four hits, three strikeouts and two walks.\n\nWith this triumph, the Leones del Escogido continue to lead the Round Robin with a 4-0 record, while the Gigantes del Cibao (0-4) remain in last place.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured Players<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Leones del Escogido:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Junior Lake: 4-1, home run, 2 RBIs, and 1 run scored<\/li>\n<li>Raimel Tapia: 4-1, 1 run scored<\/li>\n<li>Michael De la Cruz: 2-1, 1 run scored and 1 walk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Gigantes del Cibao:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nicholas Torres: 4-1, triple and 1 scored<\/li>\n<li>Marco Hern\u00e1ndez: 5-2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nAfter the New Year&#8217;s and New Year&#8217;s break, the Lions will return to action this Thursday in La Romana, where they will face the Toros del Este starting at 7:30 pm.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junior Lake Drives the Victory for the Leones del Escogido A crucial two-run home run hit by Junior Lake in the seventh inning broke the tie and gave the Leones del Escogido a 3-2 victory over the Gigantes del Cibao this Tuesday. With this result, the Lions remain undefeated (4-0) and lead the round-robin tournament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,1048,10613,3875],"class_list":{"0":"post-99526","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-junior-lake","11":"tag-leones-del-escogido"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99526","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=99526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}