<\/p>\n\n\nSAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS. \u2013 Backed by an explosive performance from Johan Rojas and Eddison Paulino, the Gigantes del Cibao decisively defeated the Toros del Este 14-6, stringing together their third consecutive victory this Sunday at the Juli\u00e1n Javier Stadium, within the 2025-26 season of the Dominican Baseball League, dedicated to Juan Marichal and for the Banreservas Cup.\n\n\n
You may be interested in:L<\/a><\/strong>ake signs historic 500th hit, but \u00c1guilas stop Escogido 4-1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe triumph allowed the Francomacorisanos to improve their record to 11-13, climbing to third place in the standings and placing themselves nine games behind the leaders \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as (20-4).\n\nThe giant offensive was led by Rojas and Paulino, who combined for eight hits, six runs scored, and five RBIs in a night of absolute offensive dominance. SAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS. \u2013 Backed by an explosive performance from Johan Rojas and Eddison Paulino, the Gigantes del Cibao decisively defeated the Toros del Este 14-6, stringing together their third consecutive victory this Sunday at the Juli\u00e1n Javier Stadium, within the 2025-26 season of the Dominican Baseball League, dedicated to Juan Marichal and for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":492264,"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-492263","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\/phj1q1-243J","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251123-WA0198.jpg","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\/11\/IMG-20251123-WA0198.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492263","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=492263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Rojas finished 5-4, with a double, three runs scored, and two RBIs, while Paulino also hit four hits in five at-bats, including a home run, three runs scored, and three RBIs.\n\nCarlos Peguero joined the offensive explosion, hitting his 49th home run in the LIDOM, one away from tying \u00c1ngel Pe\u00f1a and Winston \u201cChilote\u201d Llenas (50) for seventh place in the historical home run standings.\n\nOther Giants standouts were Leurys Garc\u00eda (5-2, two runs scored), Marco Hern\u00e1ndez (5-3, run scored, double and two walks), Peguero (4-3, run scored and two RBIs) and Julio Carreras (4-1, run scored and driven in).\n\nFor the Toros, who now have a record of 13-12, F\u00e9lix Reyes hit a home run and drove in two runs (4-1), Rafael Lantigua contributed a home run and two RBIs (2-2), while Manuel Pe\u00f1a added an RBI (3-1).\n\nAmerican Aaron Brooks (1-2) was the losing pitcher, while Aidan Anderson (1-0) took the victory by retiring the three batters he faced in an effective relief during the fifth inning.\n\nThe Giants return to the field this Monday to receive the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as at 7:00 p.m. in San Francisco de Macor\u00eds, while the Toros will visit the Tigres del Licey at 7:30 p.m. at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium.\n\nThe standings are still headed by the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as (20-4), followed by Toros del Este (13-12), Gigantes del Cibao (11-13), Estrellas Orientales (12-16), Leones del Escogido (11-15) and Tigres del Licey (9-16), who are going through a negative streak of five losses.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"