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<\/h2>\n\n\nSAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS. \u2013<\/strong> The Leones del Escogido took a decisive step towards the Final Series of the 2025-26 LIDOM tournament by defeating the Gigantes del Cibao 5-1 this Wednesday, achieving their 11th victory in the Round Robin.\n\n\n

You may be interested<\/strong>:Lions announce relievers Contreras and West<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nWith the triumph, the Reds improved their record to 11-4 and would qualify for the final with a new victory this Thursday against the Toros del Este in La Romana, or if the team that is defeated in the duel between \u00c1guilas and Toros in Santiago loses again.\n\nThe Lions set the pace of the game from the first inning, when they scored four runs against starting pitcher Daniel Mengden. Alcides Escobar opened the scoring with a solo home run to left field. Then, with two outs and the bases loaded, Jos\u00e9 Marmolejos hit a single to left field that, combined with an error in the throw by outfielder Leury Garc\u00eda, allowed the three runners to score.\n\nThe capitalinos’ fifth run came in the fifth inning. Erik Gonz\u00e1lez opened with a double to left field, advanced with a ground ball from S\u00f3crates Brito and later scored after a hit by Troy Lake through the infield that turned into an error by third baseman Marco Hern\u00e1ndez.\n\nThe Giants’ only annotation occurred in the sixth inning, when Jos\u00e9 Sir\u00ed hit a solo home run against reliever H\u00e9ctor Neris between left and center field.\n\n\n

Starting pitcher Jos\u00e9 Urquidy was the Escogido’s mound figure by pitching five scoreless innings, allowing only two hits, without giving walks and with four strikeouts, to earn the victory (1-2). The red bullpen maintained control of the game with relief appearances without allowing liberties from Jefry Yan, Hansel Marcelino \u2014who struck out two\u2014 and Stephen Nogosek. The loss went to Mengden (0-2), punished with four runs in the first inning.<\/p>\n\n\nOn the offensive for the Lions, Marmolejos hit 1-4 with two RBIs; Escobar went 1-5 with a home run, one RBI and one run scored; Erik Gonz\u00e1lez went 1-3 with a double, a run scored and a walk, and Lake went 1-4 with a run scored.
For the Giants, Jos\u00e9 Sir\u00ed finished 1-3 with a home run, one RBI and one run scored, while Marco Hern\u00e1ndez hit 1-3.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO DE MACOR\u00cdS. \u2013 The Leones del Escogido took a decisive step towards the Final Series of the 2025-26 LIDOM tournament by defeating the Gigantes del Cibao 5-1 this Wednesday, achieving their 11th victory in the Round Robin. You may be interested:Lions announce relievers Contreras and West With the triumph, the Reds improved their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":0,"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-497686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-lidom","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25tc","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","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":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497686","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=497686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}