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You may be interested in:<\/a><\/strong>Toros close series 7-3 against Licey with their 26th win of the season<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nWith the victory, the Giants achieved their second consecutive triumph and woke up in third place in the standings with a record of 22-26, with only two games left to conclude the regular season. The Francomacorisano team is behind the already classified \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as (32-16) and Toros del Este (26-22).\n\nCarreras blasted the eighth grand slam of the season in LIDOM by punishing an 83-mph slider from reliever Henry Sosa. The hit, with no outs and a 1-1 count, traveled an estimated distance of 398 feet to left field, unleashing the decisive offensive of the game.\n\nIt was the first grand slam by a Giants player since Kelvin Guti\u00e9rrez achieved it on October 27 against the Estrellas Orientales, in San Francisco de Macor\u00eds.\n\nIn the mound, opener Steven Moyer worked 3.2 innings, allowing six hits and two earned runs, with one strikeout and one home run allowed, facing 16 batters.\n\nThe victory went to Colombian Tayron Guerrero (1-0), who pitched in the sixth inning, faced two batters, gave a walk, and recorded an out. The loss went to Di\u00f3genes Almeng\u00f3 (0-1), who couldn’t get outs in the sixth inning and allowed three earned runs.\n\nFor the Lions, \u00c1ngel S\u00e1nchez opened the game and pitched two innings, giving up three hits and two earned runs, with one walk, two strikeouts and one home run allowed.\n\nThe particular series was won by the Leones del Escogido with a 6-4 advantage, extending their historical dominance over the Gigantes to 165-136.\n\n\n Gigantes del Cibao:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Leones del Escogido:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 Julio Carreras hit a grand slam that capped an explosive six-run sixth inning, and the Gigantes del Cibao defeated the Leones del Escogido 13-9 this Sunday, in the continuation of the 2025-26 autumn-winter baseball tournament of the LIDOM, dedicated to Cooperstown immortal Juan Marichal and in option for the Banreservas Cup. You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":495314,"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-495313","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\/phj1q1-24QV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251221-WA0214.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-20251221-WA0214.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495313","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=495313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Offensive Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Classification Overview<\/h3>\n\n\nAfter the Sunday games, \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as and Toros del Este secured their classification, while Gigantes del Cibao (22-26), Estrellas Orientales (22-27) and Leones del Escogido (22-27) remain tied in the fight for the last ticket. Tigres del Licey (21-27) are two games away.\n\n\n
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