{"id":500302,"date":"2026-02-17T10:38:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/leones-del-escogido-turns-105-this-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:38:47","slug":"leones-del-escogido-turns-105-this-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/leones-del-escogido-turns-105-this-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Leones del Escogido turns 105 this Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<strong>Santo Domingo<\/strong>.\u2014 The Leones del Escogido commemorate this Tuesday the 105th anniversary of their founding, which occurred on February 17, 1921, in a sporting context marked by recent favorable results and a historical trajectory within Dominican professional baseball.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/aguilas-cibaenas-blindan-su-nucleo-y-renuevan-a-fernandez-mejia-gonzalez-y-reyes-rumbo-a-la-nueva-campana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as strengthen their core and renew Fern\u00e1ndez, Mej\u00eda, Gonz\u00e1lez and Reyes heading into the new season<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe capital team arrives at the date after obtaining the championship of the 2025-26 season, their 18th title, after defeating the <strong>Toros del Este<\/strong> in five games. In that final series, <strong>Junior Lake<\/strong>, <strong>Erik Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong> and <strong>S\u00f3crates Brito<\/strong> stood out offensively, under the direction of manager <strong>Ram\u00f3n Santiago<\/strong>.\n\nThe organization has won championships at different stages from the mid-20th century to the present, in addition to five Caribbean Series titles. According to the club&#8217;s president, <strong>Eduardo Najri<\/strong>, the board aims to preserve the competitive tradition and institutional identity of the team, which is based at the <strong>Quisqueya Stadium<\/strong>.\n\nThroughout its history, Escogido has had outstanding players such as &#8220;Juan Marichal&#8221;, &#8220;David Ortiz&#8221;, and &#8220;Starling Marte&#8221;. Its first competitive achievements date back to 1922, when it won its first national championship with the participation of the baseball player &#8220;Tetelo Vargas&#8221;.\n\nThe institution was founded by players from various local teams and has since been part of the historical structure of organized baseball in the Dominican Republic.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.\u2014 The Leones del Escogido commemorate this Tuesday the 105th anniversary of their founding, which occurred on February 17, 1921, in a sporting context marked by recent favorable results and a historical trajectory within Dominican professional baseball. You may be interested in: \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as strengthen their core and renew Fern\u00e1ndez, Mej\u00eda, Gonz\u00e1lez and Reyes [&hellip;]<\/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":[611,40231,41186],"class_list":["post-500302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-269o","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\/500302","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=500302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}