“Child, stop fucking around with the ball/Child, that is not said/That is not done/That is not touched”
The final series of the Tomás Troncoso tournament started last night, agreed to a 7-4, where the vast majority of the technicians in the matter give the Tigres de Licey to capture the crown 23.
In the world of Major League Baseball, the topic on the desk is pitcher Trevor Bauer convicted of domestic violence and sexual assault, who was released Thursday by the Los Angeles Dodgers six days after being placed in assignment.
The first country to punish a baseball player for gender violence It is the Dominican Republic, when 63 years ago today, on January 14, 1960, the American pitcher howie nunnfrom the Tigres del Licey, was sentenced to pay a fine of RD$5.00 (five gold pesos), after being found guilty of having a fight with the named Aurora Pérez, who was punished by paying a fine of RD$2.00 (two gold pesos).
Where and how did the event originate?
According to the review in “El Caribe”, Nunn was involved in the incident on the night of December 25, 1959 at the “El Taíno” nightclub in Villas Agrícolas.
Nunn was having drinks and invited an employee out, and Mrs. Aurora Pérez, seven months pregnant, told her that employee outings were prohibited. The pitcher got up from his chair in a rage and gave Mrs. Pérez a shove so that she rolled on the ground and then he threw a glass of beer in her face. The parishioners present controlled that human beast.
On January 12, 1960, howie nunn He was fired by the Licey, but he could not evade justice as he had an “exit impediment”. On January 14, he appeared at the Prosecutor’s Office with his lawyer, Dr. Franklin Lithgow Ortega, assisted by the translator José Enrique Almánzar.
LICEY-STAR STORY: The first game under lights in the history of Dominican baseball was played between the Tigres de Licey and the Estrellas Orientales, on Sunday, October 23, 1955, at the inauguration of the Trujillo Stadium. He won the Licey 8×7.
The first hit was produced by Alcibíades Colón, from the Tigres del Licey against Donald Elston from the Estrellas Orientales.
That day there was also the first deflected pitch (Donald Elston), the first out was Pablo García, Licey a ground ball via 43. The first RBI was also by Pablo García, the first triple was by Bob Wilson, also from Licey in the third episode.
Federico –Chichi- Olivo was the first pitcher to win in this park and the first loser was Donald Elston from Los Orientales.
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1961. Víctor Ramírez, Águilas Cibaeñas, batted for the cycle, in his team’s 2-7 defeat by the Estrellas Orientales.
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1981. Manuel Mota, Tigres del Licey, at Tetelo Vargas Stadium, shoots a single against Jim Lewis, Mota’s 800th hit in the Dominican League in 2,400 at-bats.
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1993. The Licey Tigers overwhelm the Estrellas Orientales 18-3, scoring 9 times in the first inning. Pedro Borbón, pitcher for the pachyderms could not make an out.
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2000. The St. Louis Cardinals traded third baseman Fernando Tatis, now manager of the Stars, and pitcher Britt Reames to the Expos for pitchers Dustin Hermanson and closer Steve Kline.
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2006. Luis Vizcaíno, relief pitcher, and the Arizona Diamantinas avoid arbitration and agree to a one-year, $1,775,000 contract.
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2008. For the first time in a semifinal series, a game without hits or runs was achieved, when the Tigres del Licey defeated the Estrellas Orientales 3-0 at the Quisqueya Stadium. The pitchers behind this gem were Ervin Santana, Dámaso Marte (7) and Carlos Mármol (9).
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2014. The Leones del Escogido, with a no-hitter game, no run, defeated the Tigres del Licey, six to zero, and sealed their passport to the final series. The long-haired, with a 10-5 record, are comfortable heading into their third consecutive trip to the final series. The no-hitter, the eighth in Dominican baseball, and the second in the semifinal, was made by pitchers Jon Leicester, Ramón García, Fernando Rodney and Armando Rodríguez. Garcia, 2-0, was the winner. The defeat for Yuniesky Maya 1-2.
