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Here’s a recap of the most outstanding data from the opening day of the Dominican winter championship:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Santo Domingo.- The 2024-2025 season of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM) began with great excitement, curious statistics, and new individual and collective milestones. Here’s a recap of the most outstanding data from the opening day of the Dominican winter championship:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":487014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,9098,40853],"class_list":["post-487013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-lidom","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22H3","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/celesten-hr-toros.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/celesten-hr-toros.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
The eastern team extended to three its streak of consecutive victories<\/strong> in opening games, establishing itself as one of the most consistent teams at the start of the last campaigns.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
On this first day, all the teams that played at home were victorious<\/strong>, marking a full house of triumphs in their respective stadiums.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
The duel between Gigantes del Cibao and \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as<\/strong> at the Cibao stadium was the only one without errors<\/strong> of the day. In contrast, two errors<\/strong> were recorded in the match between Toros del Este and Estrellas Orientales<\/strong>, and four<\/strong> in the match between Leones del Escogido and Tigres del Licey<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
In the match between Gigantes and \u00c1guilas, 12 pitchers (7 from the Gigantes and 5 from the \u00c1guilas) participated<\/strong>, of which 10 achieved at least one strikeout<\/strong>, totaling 21 in the match<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
The veteran pitcher reached his 23rd victory in the regular season<\/strong> and 32 in total<\/strong> in his career within the LIDOM.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
American David Smeltzer<\/strong> became the fifth consecutive foreign pitcher<\/strong> to open an inaugural game with the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as. The last native to do so was Marcos Dipl\u00e1n<\/strong>, in the 2020-21<\/strong> season against the Gigantes del Cibao.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
The young player of the \u00c1guilas, Alberto Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong>, hit his first triple in LIDOM<\/strong>. He already has a home run, triple and single in his career, and only needs a double to complete the collection of hits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
The Toros del Este<\/strong> went 6-1<\/strong> with men in scoring position during their first game of the season, a statistic they will seek to improve in the next commitments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
The star catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, in his first official at-bat with the Gigantes del Cibao<\/strong>, hit a double<\/strong>, starting his participation in Dominican winter baseball with force.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
The rookie of the Toros del Este<\/strong>, Felnin Celesten<\/strong>, celebrated his first hit in the league with a home run<\/strong>. Celesten was the team’s first pick in the 2025 Rookie Draft<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
The defeated teams on the opening day batted twice for a double play<\/strong> each, while none of the three winners<\/strong> hit for a double play in their matches.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n