SANTIAGO. – In the presence of thousands of children who entered the stadium with toys brought by their parents, the Águilas Cibaeñas offered a victory against the Estrellas Orientales with a score of 6-1, on Sunday afternoon at the Cibao Stadium, in the continuation of the 2025-2026 autumn-winter baseball tournament, dedicated to Cooperstown immortal Juan Marichal.
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The Eagles widely dominated the 23 series, winning nine of the ten games played in the regular season.The Eagles have been dominant at home, with a record of 17-7 in the Valley of Death, and 15-9 when playing away from home.
With this result, the Eagles place their mark at 32-16, still with the opportunity to reach 34 victories, a record figure for a regular season of 60 games.
The victory went to Jorge Tavárez (4-1), while the defeat fell on Enny Romero (1-4).
Jorge Tavárez was the starting pitcher designated by manager Luis “Pipe” Urueta, completing a 5.0-inning performance of one run, three hits, two walks, and one strikeout.
The yellow relief was led by Luis Patiño (6), Richard Rodríguez (8), and Junior Fernández (9).
The left-hander Enny Romero was the pitcher selected by Carlos Paulino to open the game. His work was ephemeral: he worked 1.1 innings, allowed two hits, three earned runs, gave three walks, and did not strike out any batter.
Román Méndez (2) came in relief of Romero, but couldn’t do much and was replaced by Junior Santos (2), Carlos Belén (3), Domingo Robles (4), Javi Guerra (6), and Neftalí Feliz (8).
Four of the seven hits connected by the Eagles were extra-base hits: home run by Elih Marrero; doubles by Geraldo Perdomo, Juan Lagares, and Corey Joyce. In addition, Ezequiel Durán connected two singles and Robert Moore one.
The greens only connected six hits, three of them in the first inning, when they scored their only run. Ismael Munguía connected three hits, while Dairon Blanco, Rodolfo Castro, and Raimer Tapia each linked one.
The visitors scored first with a run at the start of the game, after two outs, the result of three consecutive hits by Dairon Blanco, Ismael Munguía, and Rodolfo Castro.
The locals responded with four runs in the second inning. Juan Lagares hit a double, Elih Marrero received four balls, Robert Moore negotiated a walk; later, Moore drove in the captain with a sacrifice fly, Ezequiel Durán drove in another with a single, and Geraldo Perdomo brought two more to the plate with a double.
The half-dozen runs came in the third, after a walk to Aderlín Rodríguez and a home run by Elih Marrero.
The Águilas Cibaeñas travel tomorrow to La Romana to face the Toros del Este in a game scheduled to start at 7:30PM at the Francisco A. Micheli stadium.
