{"id":495453,"date":"2025-12-23T06:59:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/leones-del-escogido-secure-their-spot-in-the-round-robin\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T11:16:04","slug":"leones-del-escogido-secure-their-spot-in-the-round-robin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/leones-del-escogido-secure-their-spot-in-the-round-robin\/","title":{"rendered":"Leones del Escogido secure their spot in the Round Robin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n<strong>SANTO DOMINGO.\u2013<\/strong> H\u00e9ctor Rodr\u00edguez had a stellar night by hitting a home run and a double, driving in four runs and scoring three, leading the Leones del Escogido to a resounding 11-3 victory over the Estrellas Orientales on Monday night, a result that secured their qualification to the <strong>Round Robin<\/strong> of the Dominican Professional Baseball League (LIDOM).\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/gigantes-del-cibao-eliminan-al-licey-y-avanzan-al-round-robin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">:Gigantes del Cibao eliminate Licey and advance to the Round Robin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nWith the triumph, the &#8220;melenudos&#8221; eliminated the Estrellas Orientales (22-28) and completed the group of four teams advancing to the postseason along with \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, Toros del Este and Gigantes del Cibao, the latter qualifying after defeating the Tigres del Licey on the same day.\n\nThe national and Caribbean champions, with a record of 23-27, will have to wait for the results of the last date of the regular season to define their final position in the table. In case the Gigantes fall this Tuesday against the Licey, the Escogido would finish in third place of the Everyone against Everyone; otherwise, they would do it in the fourth position.\n\nThe Stars took an early lead with two runs in the first inning, which led to the premature exit of starting pitcher Travis Lakins. From the bullpen, <strong>Phillips Valdez (3-0)<\/strong> was credited with the victory after pitching 2.1 innings of one run and two strikeouts. Grant Gavin also stood out with a solid performance of three scoreless innings, not allowing hits, with four strikeouts and one walk.\n\nThe loss went to <strong>Zac Kristofak (0-1)<\/strong>, who allowed three runs in just one-third of an inning.\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How the races arrived<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\nThe Leones scored in the first inning with a double by Junior Lake, a single by Erik Gonz\u00e1lez and a run-scoring groundout by S\u00f3crates Brito. One of the decisive rallies of four runs came in the third inning, led by a hit by Gonz\u00e1lez and finished off by a run-scoring double by Jonathan Ara\u00faz, which put the score at 5-3.\n\nIn the fifth inning, the Reds extended their lead with a string of hits against Oscar De La Cruz and Raffi Vizca\u00edno, adding four more runs. Rodr\u00edguez&#8217;s home run came in the sixth inning against Jhan Mar\u00ed\u00f1ez, a 432-foot hit to right field, with an exit velocity of 106.3 miles per hour, which sealed the Escogido offense.\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Individual Performance<\/h4>\n\n\nFor the Leones, H\u00e9ctor Rodr\u00edguez went 3-3, with a home run, a double, four RBIs, three runs scored, and a walk; Erik Gonz\u00e1lez went 5-3, with two RBIs and a run scored; Pedro Severino, 4-2, with two RBIs, two runs scored, and a stolen base, and Jonathan Ara\u00faz, 4-2, with a double and two RBIs.\n\nBy the Stars, Ismael Mungu\u00eda went 1-for-2, with an RBI, a run scored, and a walk, while Raimel Tapia finished 1-for-4, with a run scored and a stolen base.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>: SANTO DOMINGO.\u2013 H\u00e9ctor Rodr\u00edguez had a stellar night by hitting a home run and a double, driving in four runs and scoring three, leading the Leones del Escogido to a resounding 11-3 victory over the Estrellas Orientales on Monday night, a result that secured their qualification to the Round Robin of the Dominican Professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":495454,"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-495453","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\/phj1q1-24Tb","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Celebracion-del-Escogido-3.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\/12\/Celebracion-del-Escogido-3.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495453","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=495453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}