{"id":99531,"date":"2025-12-31T04:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chosen-honors-the-quisqueya-maintenance-team-dominican-baseball-thanks\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:57:00","slug":"chosen-honors-the-quisqueya-maintenance-team-dominican-baseball-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/chosen-honors-the-quisqueya-maintenance-team-dominican-baseball-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Chosen Honors the Quisqueya Maintenance Team: Dominican Baseball Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo \u2013 In the world of baseball, the success of each game is built on the silent work of unsung heroes. The Leones del Escogido, recognizing this important work, paid an emotional tribute to the groundskeeping staff of the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium this Tuesday, before their game against the Gigantes del Cibao.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A well-deserved recognition<\/h2>\n\n\nThe act highlighted the commitment, dedication, and daily effort of this team, who are in charge of maintaining the playing field, gardens, and all areas of the stadium in perfect condition. This recognition takes on special relevance since the arrival of Vitelio Mej\u00eda to the presidency of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM) in 2017.\n\nDuring the regular season, the schedule underwent adjustments due to the effects of Storm Melissa. However, thanks to the hard work of the maintenance team, the field was able to be reconditioned on multiple occasions, allowing the matches to take place without major inconveniences.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>One of the most notable examples was the game between the Leones del Escogido and the Estrellas Orientales, held on October 20th, which was able to start at 10:18 PM thanks to the extraordinary effort of the ground crew.<\/p><cite>Alofoke Deportes<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe field maintenance manager, Jeudy Paula Capell\u00e1n, was in charge of throwing the ceremonial first pitch, accompanied by his collaborators: Oscar Guti\u00e9rrez, Concepci\u00f3n Rosario, Joscar Pineda, Juan Paulino, Marino Parra, Francisco N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Edwin Lara, Jonathan Vera, Daniel Feliciano, Jos\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez and Yon Rosario.\n\nThe ceremony was attended by the president of LIDOM, the general manager of the Leones, Carlos Pe\u00f1a, and the scarlet legend Wilkin Castillo, who served as the catcher for the honorary pitch.\n\nIn addition to public recognition, Paula Capell\u00e1n and her team received financial compensation as a token of gratitude for their valuable contribution to the development of Dominican baseball and the success of the season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo \u2013 In the world of baseball, the success of each game is built on the silent work of unsung heroes. The Leones del Escogido, recognizing this important work, paid an emotional tribute to the groundskeeping staff of the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium this Tuesday, before their game against the Gigantes del Cibao. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,888,11186,1296],"class_list":{"0":"post-99531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-lions","10":"tag-maintenance","11":"tag-stadium"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99531","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=99531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}