SANTO DOMINGO, RD – The Eastern Stars relied on two attacks in the final third of the game for a 6-3 victory, giving them their sixth straight victory and thus moving closer to punching their first ticket to advance to the finals. beating Gigantes del Cibao this Sunday night at the Julian Javier Stadium.
The Stars (8-1) are solid in the round-robin semifinal standings, with half of the round played this Sunday. The Giants (1-8) trailed by seven from the first, which they are pulling away from, and second place is starting to look like their best option.
Webster Rivas and Jose Barreiro each had two runs, and two wild pitches from Cibeno pitching turned into two runs for the Stars, which made the difference in the outcome of the game.
Eastern pitching limited the Giants to four hits. Henry Sosa (1-0; 0.00) got the win and Ronel Blanco pitched a perfect ninth for his third save. The loss was to Yerry Rodriguez (0-1; 10.80).
Each team scored a run in the second inning and from then until the seventh inning the pitchers blanked their opponents.
Runs came after two outs.
Levin Diaz started the seventh with a walk against reliever Yerry Rodriguez. With one out, Jurickson Profar singled to right and Webster Rivas, now facing Angel Sanchez, drove in the first half of the inning, also scampering to second base to leave two runners in scoring position.
Rodriguez retired Sano for the second out, but Sanchez threw a wild pitch and Profar scored. Sanchez threw another wild pitch and Rivas scored the third of the episode. Both pitches turned around against Jose Barrero, who eventually dominated the infield with a ground ball.
The Giants came within two runs in the bottom of the inning, thanks to a home run by Jaimer Candelario with Jose Siri before a Luis Gonzalez delivery.
In the ninth, Miguel Sano, Joe Riley, hit his second double of the game and was replaced by pinch-runner Roel Santos. Profar singled to right to leave the men in the corner. Robinson Cano, who batted for Rivas, walked with the bases loaded.
After one out against Frank Garces, Jose Barreiro hit a double to bring Santos and Profar to the plate.
In 2nd place lions are close to tigers
Jorge Mateo and Orlando Carlix each had four hits in Leones del Esguido’s 12-8 win over Tigres del Lici on Sunday night in the ninth day of the Dominican Baseball League’s round robin of 36 in which the Benareservas Cup was dedicated. Onfalia Morillo takes place.
With the victory, the Lions came within just one game of second place in the round robin held by the Tigers in search of a pass in the final series of Dominican baseball.
Victor Santos struck out the first 16 batters he faced over four innings, with four hits, three earned runs, three strikeouts and two home runs.
Lincoln Herman (W, 1-0) pitched the sixth and faced six batters over two innings.
Brooke Hall (W, 1-0) went 1.2 innings, giving up five hits, six runs, two earned and a strikeout against twelve batters.
For lions; Jorge Mateo 5-4, two runs scored, two walks; Eric Gonzalez 4-3, two runs scored; Orlando Carlixt 5-4, two runs scored, one double, three RBIs.
Hector Rodriguez 6-2, score, RBI; Elior Hernandez 4-for-2, two runs scored, two walks; Starling Mars 4-1; Michael Perez 5-1, score.
for the tiger; Miguel Andujar 4-1; Ramon Hernandez 3-1, score, home run, RBI; Starling Castro 4-1, score.
Davel Lugo 1-for-4, score, home run, two RBI; Sergio Alcantara scores 3-1. This Monday, Leones del Esguido visits Gigantes del Cibao for the second time starting at 7pm at the Julian Javier Stadium in San Francisco de Macoris.
While Estrellas Orientales will continue on the road to face Tigres del Lice in Santo Domingo to make their second stop.
With nine games to play, Estrellas Orientales lead the round-robin rounds with an 8-1 record, followed by Tigres del Licey (5-4), Leones del Esguido (4-5) and Gigantes del Cibao (1-8).
