{"id":494808,"date":"2025-12-17T00:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/garcia-jr-and-gary-sanchez-lead-giants-sweep-over-toros\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T00:06:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:06:40","slug":"garcia-jr-and-gary-sanchez-lead-giants-sweep-over-toros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/garcia-jr-and-gary-sanchez-lead-giants-sweep-over-toros\/","title":{"rendered":"Garc\u00eda Jr. and Gary S\u00e1nchez lead Giants&#8217; sweep over Toros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n<strong>SAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS. \u2013<\/strong> <strong>Luis Garc\u00eda Jr.<\/strong> had a perfect night, going <strong>4-4, with a home run<\/strong>, and <strong>Gary S\u00e1nchez<\/strong> hit a home run and drove in <strong>four runs<\/strong>, for the <strong>Gigantes del Cibao<\/strong> to defeat the <strong>Toros del Este 11-8<\/strong> in the second game of the doubleheader played this Tuesday, in the continuation of the <strong>2025-2026 Dominican Baseball League<\/strong> championship, dedicated to <strong>Juan Marichal<\/strong> and in option to the <strong>Copa Banreservas<\/strong>.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/hit-de-ismael-munguia-decide-triunfo-de-las-estrellas-4-2-sobre-el-licey\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ismael Mungu\u00eda&#8217;s hit decides victory for Estrellas 4-2 over Licey<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nWith the victory, the Giants completed the <strong>sweep<\/strong>, after winning <strong>8-1<\/strong> in the first game, and improved their record to <strong>19-25<\/strong>, achieving their <strong>second consecutive victory<\/strong>.\n\nDespite the setback, the <strong>Toros del Este<\/strong> secured their classification to the <strong>postseason<\/strong>, becoming the <strong>second team<\/strong> to achieve the ticket.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pitching<\/h3>\n\n\nThe opener <strong>Miller Hogan<\/strong> worked <strong>two innings<\/strong>, in which he allowed <strong>two hits and four earned runs<\/strong>, gave <strong>three walks<\/strong>, struck out <strong>three<\/strong> and conceded <strong>two home runs<\/strong>, facing eleven batters.\n\nThe loss fell on <strong>Manuel Mercedes (0-1)<\/strong>, who couldn&#8217;t retire batters in the eighth inning after allowing <strong>one hit, three earned runs, and two walks<\/strong>.\n\nIn relief, <strong>Bryan Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> pitched <strong>3.2 innings<\/strong>, allowed <strong>four hits and three earned runs<\/strong>, with <strong>two walks<\/strong>, <strong>four strikeouts<\/strong> and a home run.\n\nThe <strong>save<\/strong> went to <strong>Anderson Pilar (5)<\/strong>, who struck out the <strong>three batters<\/strong> he faced in the ninth inning.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Offensive<\/h3>\n\n\nFor the <strong>Toros del Este<\/strong>, <strong>Gilberto Celestino<\/strong> stood out, going <strong>4-2<\/strong> with a run scored and a walk; <strong>Allan Castro<\/strong>, going <strong>5-1<\/strong> with a home run and <strong>two RBIs<\/strong>; <strong>S\u00f3crates Brito<\/strong>, going <strong>4-2<\/strong> with <strong>two doubles<\/strong>, a run scored, an RBI, and a walk; and <strong>Jeimer Candelario<\/strong>, going <strong>4-1<\/strong> with a home run and <strong>three RBIs<\/strong>.\n\nFor the <strong>Gigantes del Cibao<\/strong>, in addition to <strong>Garc\u00eda Jr.<\/strong> and <strong>S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, <strong>Leury Garc\u00eda<\/strong> stood out, going <strong>4-1<\/strong> with a run scored, an RBI, and a walk, and <strong>Pablo Reyes<\/strong>, who scored a run and received <strong>two walks<\/strong>.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming commitments<\/h3>\n\n\nThis <strong>Wednesday<\/strong>, the Giants will visit the Toros del Este in <strong>La Romana<\/strong>, the <strong>Leones del Escogido<\/strong> will face the <strong>\u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as<\/strong> in <strong>Santiago<\/strong>, and the <strong>Estrellas Orientales<\/strong> will play the <strong>Tigres del Licey<\/strong> in <strong>Santo Domingo<\/strong>, all games scheduled for <strong>7:30 p.m.<\/strong>\n\nThe <strong>LIDOM<\/strong> will have a day off on <strong>Thursday<\/strong>, prior to the last weekend of the regular season, which concludes next <strong>Tuesday<\/strong>.\n\nThe Giants will play on <strong>Friday<\/strong> in <strong>San Pedro de Macor\u00eds<\/strong> (7:30 p.m.), they will receive the <strong>Escogido<\/strong> on <strong>Saturday<\/strong> (7:30 p.m.) and will close the regular series on <strong>Sunday<\/strong> visiting the <strong>Leones<\/strong> (5:00 p.m.).","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS. \u2013 Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. had a perfect night, going 4-4, with a home run, and Gary S\u00e1nchez hit a home run and drove in four runs, for the Gigantes del Cibao to defeat the Toros del Este 11-8 in the second game of the doubleheader played this Tuesday, in the continuation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":494809,"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-494808","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\/phj1q1-24IM","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251216-WA0144.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\/12\/IMG-20251216-WA0144.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494808","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=494808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}