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SANTO DOMINGO.\u2013<\/strong> The Leones del Escogido took a decisive step towards the Final Series of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball Tournament by defeating the Gigantes del Cibao 5-1 on Wednesday night, while the Toros del Este took the opportunity to stay alone in second place after blanking the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as 3-0 in Santiago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may be interested in:L<\/a><\/strong>Leones del Escogido are approaching the final after defeating Gigantes in San Francis<\/a>co<\/p>\n\n\nWith their victory, the Escogido improved their record to 11-4 and secured, at a minimum, a tie in the qualifying zone, with three games remaining to be played in the Round Robin. In any multiple tie scenario, the Leones dominate both in run differential and in particular series, so their pass to the final is practically assured.\n\n\n SANTO DOMINGO.\u2013 The Leones del Escogido took a decisive step towards the Final Series of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball Tournament by defeating the Gigantes del Cibao 5-1 on Wednesday night, while the Toros del Este took the opportunity to stay alone in second place after blanking the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as 3-0 in Santiago. You may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[611,40231,21,13766],"class_list":["post-497720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-luis-abinader","tag-mlb"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25tK","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","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":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497720","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=497720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Chosen hits early in San Francisco<\/h3>\n\n\nIn San Francisco de Macor\u00eds, the reds defined the game from the first inning against starting pitcher Daniel Mengden. Alcides Escobar opened the scoring with a solo home run and, after two outs, a combination of hits and walks loaded the bases. Jos\u00e9 Marmolejos then hit a single to left field that, combined with an error in the throw by outfielder Leury Garc\u00eda, allowed three more runs to score to put the game at 4-0.\n\nThe Lions’ fifth run came in the fifth inning, when Erik Gonz\u00e1lez scored after a ground ball that turned into a defensive error.\n\nMexican left-hander Jos\u00e9 Urquidy was the figure from the mound, pitching five innings of only two hits, no walks, and four strikeouts to earn the victory. Daniel Mengden took the loss, allowing four runs in just one-third of an inning.\n\n\n
Toros imponen su pitcheo en Santiago<\/h3>\n\n\nAt the Cibao Stadium, the Toros del Este relied on a solid performance from their pitching staff to shut out the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as 3-0 and take absolute control of second place with a 9-6 record.\n\nThe orange offense broke the tie in the eighth inning when Jeimer Candelario hit a two-run double, which was then complemented by a sacrifice fly from Sergio Alc\u00e1ntara to seal the score.\n\nEmail\u00edn Montilla (2-0) took the win in relief, Joe Corbett earned his fifth save, while Oscar De la Cruz (2-1) suffered the loss.\n\n\n
Standings after the matchday<\/h3>\n\n\nWith these results, the Round Robin is led by the Escogido (11-4), followed by the Toros (9-6), the \u00c1guilas (8-7) and the Gigantes (2-13), already eliminated.\n\nThis Thursday, the Lions will visit the Bulls in La Romana and the Giants will travel to Santiago to face the Eagles, in another key day of the Everyone against Everyone.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"