{"id":134491,"date":"2019-12-23T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T10:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=134491"},"modified":"2019-12-23T19:16:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T19:16:39","slug":"134491","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/23\/134491\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Winter Professional Baseball championship continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"317\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Baseball-Teams-DR-Deporvida-Net-e1542891683910.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Baseball-Teams-DR-Deporvida-Net-e1542891683910.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Baseball-Teams-DR-Deporvida-Net-e1542891683910-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Professional Winter League (Lidom) has announced the rosters of the four teams that are competing in the Dominican Professional Winter Baseball Championship. Players from the Estrellas Orientales and Gigantes del Cibao were added to each of the top four teams for the second part of the championship. These teams are Toros del Este, Leones del Escogido, Tigres del Licey and Aguilas Cibae\u00f1as. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The round robin schedule started on 21 December 2019 and will end on 15 January 2020. Some 36 games are programmed, of which 18 will be played at the Quisqueya Ball Park in Santo Domingo, nine at the Estadio Cibao in Santiago and another nine at the Francisco Micheli Ball Park in La Romana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The championship takes a break for the Christmas holidays from 23 to 26 December. Games resume on Friday, 27 December with the Aguilas matching the Escogido in Santo Domingo, and the Licey matching the Toros in La Romana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last game of the year will be played on Monday, December 30, first between Licey and Escogido, then Toros and \u00c1guilas in Santiago. Then the league takes off 31 December and 1 January 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The games will resume on Thursday, 2 January <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teams and their rosters are now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toros del Este: <br>Locals: Junior Lake, Edgar Garcia, Warner Madrigal (Estrellas Orientales) and Ramon Ramirez (Gigantes del Cibao)<br>Imported players: Christian Bethancourt and Logan Bawcom (Estrellas Orientales).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tigres del Licey:<br>Locals: S\u00f3crates Brito (Estrellas Orientales); Jos\u00e9 de Paula, Carlos Ram\u00edrez and Adonis Sosa (Gigantes del Cibao).<br>Imported players: Evan Maclane (Estrellas Orientales) and Jim Fuller (Gigantes del Cibao).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leones del Escogido<br>Locals: Wirfin Obispo, Gustavo N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Marlon Arias (Estrellas Orientales) and Abiatal Avelino (Gigantes del Cibao).<br>Imported players: Eric Filia, Kelvin Tomlison (Estrellas Orientales) y Craig Stem (Gigantes del Cibao).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as<br>Locals: Ram\u00f3n Torres Melvin Mercedes (Gigantes del Cibao), Gabriel Guerrero y Rom\u00e1n M\u00e9ndez (Estrellas Orientales) <br>Imported players: Matt Pobereyko (Estrellas Orientales) and Andy Otero (Gigantes del Cibao)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the calendar at:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lidom.com\/home\/calendario\/\">LIDOM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/el-deporte\/2019\/12\/20\/596687\/estos-son-los-jugadores-que-formaran-parte-de-los-cuatro-equipos-que-van-al-round-robin\">Listin<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/el-deporte\/2019\/12\/20\/596673\/asi-sera-el-calendario-de-la-semifinal-de-la-pelota-invernal\">List\u00edn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 December 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Professional Winter League (Lidom) has announced the rosters of the four teams that are competing in the Dominican Professional Winter Baseball Championship. Players from the Estrellas Orientales and Gigantes del Cibao were added to each of the top four teams for the second part of the championship. These teams are Toros del Este, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/23\/134491\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134547,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134491\/revisions\/134547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}