The victory against the Stars and the Eagles, last night, caused the third quadruple tie of the All against All
For the third time in the semifinal series there was another four-way tie for first place, after victories for the Tigres del Licey and Gigantes del Cibao against the Estrellas Orientales and Águilas Cibaeñas 8-5 and 5-0 at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal and Cibao Stadiums of Santiago, respectively.
The first time that the four teams that are acting in the All Against All appeared at the top, with a 1-1 mark, was on Wednesday, December 21.
At that time, the Licey beat the Stars 7-4, and the Águilas beat the Giants 8-0. Then, on the 29th of that same month, there was another four-way tie, this time with a 3-3 record. Águilas and Estrellas came out on top against Licey and Gigantes with a score of 3-0 and 10-5, respectively.
Now the four teams register a 5-5 record with eight games remaining on the Round Robin schedule of the 2022-2023 autumn-winter baseball tournament, dedicated to the memory of Don Tomás Troncoso Cuesta.
In the Capital, Mel Rojas Jr. led a four-run rally in the eighth inning for the Tigers to snap a two-game losing streak.
With the game 5-4 in favor of the Stars, the Tigers turned the score around, this time 8-5, two due to a hit by Rojas Jr. with the bases loaded, another due to a touch for the first by Pablo Reyes and a fourth due to a single by Jesus Sucre.
The best offensive team in the East was the Venezuelan rookie Ramón Flores, who gave his team the lead with a home run as a pinch hitter.
The victory corresponded to reliever Jean Carlos Mejía (1-0), who launched the eighth of a round (Flores’ home run). He lost reliever Gerson Bautista (0-1) while allowing three runs, one hit and three walks. Jairo Asencio retired all three he faced in the ninth for the save.
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In Santiago, Pedro Fernández and three relievers combined to allow a single hit by the Águilas Cibaeñas bats to whitewash them 5-0.
Yamaico Navarro led the Giants’ offensive attack by hitting a home run and a single with four RBIs.
The only hit the Eagles connected was by Jonathan Villar in the second inning against Fernández (1-0), who pitched six innings of two walks and three strikeouts. He was seconded by José Leclerc (1.0), Jeurys Familia (1.0) and Fernando Rodney (1.0).
On the other hand, the setback was for Carlos Hernández (1-1), with pitching work in five episodes of six hits, two runs, one transfer and two fanned batters. He was relieved by Emailin Montilla (1.0), Jared Wilson (0.2), Darío Álvarez (0.1) and Wendolyn Bautista (2.0).
The Giants gave the house number in the leadoff of the third inning with a two-run single to center field by Yamaico Navarro.
In the seventh episode, the Francomacorisan team returned to the attack, this time with three more runs, one due to a sacrifice fly by Erik González and another two due to a home run by Navarro.
