SAN PEDRO DE MACOR\u00cdS.\u2013<\/strong> The Estrellas Orientales<\/strong> once again showed character in a high-tension game by defeating the Gigantes del Cibao<\/strong> 4-3 in 12 innings, leaving them on the field on Friday night at the Tetelo Vargas Stadium, in the continuation of the regular season of the LIDOM championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may be interested in:L<\/a><\/strong>eones extend their streak and secure third place<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe outcome came in the bottom of the twelfth episode when Leones extend their streak and secure themselves in third place.<\/strong> Almonte, acting as a pinch hitter, received a walk with the bases loaded against reliever Routzahn<\/strong>, allowing the greens to seal a key victory in their fight for classification.\n\nWith the triumph, the Estrellas improved their record to 22-25<\/strong>, remaining tied in third place<\/strong> with the Leones del Escogido<\/strong>, while the Gigantes fell to 20-26<\/strong>, tied with the Tigres del Licey<\/strong>, who also achieved a victory in the day.\n\nThe victory went to reliever Oddy N\u00fa\u00f1ez (1-1)<\/strong>, who worked one inning in which he allowed a hit and an unearned run, gave a walk and struck out two batters. The loss went to Yaqui Rivera (0-1)<\/strong>, who could not preserve the lead in just one-third of an inning, giving up two runs, one of them earned.\n\n\n SAN PEDRO DE MACOR\u00cdS.\u2013 The Estrellas Orientales once again showed character in a high-tension game by defeating the Gigantes del Cibao 4-3 in 12 innings, leaving them on the field on Friday night at the Tetelo Vargas Stadium, in the continuation of the regular season of the LIDOM championship. You may be interested in:Leones extend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":495231,"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":[611,40231,9098,41186],"class_list":["post-495230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-lidom","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24PA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/C9D7004B-A2BF-485F-810A-3045A5399220.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/C9D7004B-A2BF-485F-810A-3045A5399220.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495230","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Starting Pitching Duel<\/h3>\n\n\nThe starting pitchers Oscar de la Cruz<\/strong>, for the Estrellas, and Daniel Mengden<\/strong>, for the Gigantes, starred in a close duel from the mound. De la Cruz pitched five innings<\/strong>, allowed four hits, gave no walks and struck out six<\/strong>. Mengden, for his part, also worked five innings<\/strong>, accepted four hits, gave one base and struck out five<\/strong>.\n\n\n
Offensive Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\nFor the Giants, Luis Garc\u00eda Jr.<\/strong> went 2-for-5 with a run scored; Nomar Mazara<\/strong>, 2-for-4; and Melvin Mercedes<\/strong>, 1-for-2 with a home run, a run scored, and two RBIs.\n\nBy the Stars, Rodolfo Castro<\/strong> went 3-2 with a run and an RBI; Vidal Bruj\u00e1n<\/strong>, 3-1 with an RBI; and Raimel Tapia<\/strong>, 5-1 with a run scored.\n\n\n
Next Matchday<\/h3>\n\n\nOn Saturday’s billboard, the Leones del Escogido<\/strong> will visit the Gigantes del Cibao<\/strong> at the Juli\u00e1n Javier Stadium starting at 5:00 p.m.<\/strong>; the Toros del Este<\/strong> will face the Tigres del Licey<\/strong> at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium at the same time; and the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as<\/strong> will travel to San Pedro de Macor\u00eds<\/strong> to face the Estrellas Orientales<\/strong> from 7:30 p.m.<\/strong>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"