{"id":35063,"date":"2013-01-23T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/escogido-wins-baseball-championship\/"},"modified":"2013-01-23T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T01:43:56","slug":"escogido-wins-baseball-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2013\/01\/23\/escogido-wins-baseball-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Escogido wins baseball championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Santo Domingo-based Leones del Escogido didn&#8217;t give the Aguilas Cibaenas from Santiago a chance. In the playoffs, the capital city team won five straight games of the 9-5 series. The final game, played at the Quisqueya Ball Park in Santo Domingo last night, Tuesday 22 January, ended 3-0. The previous evening, Monday 21 January, the Escogido defeated the Aguilas 9-0 in Santiago. The Escogido now has 15 championships under its belt. The Licey and the Aguilas have won 20 of the 49 championships. In Dominican baseball history, a grand slam has only been achieved on nine previous occasions: 1964-65, 1978-79, 1988-89, 1996-97, 2002-03, 2008-09, 2010-11 and 2012-13. The Escogido was in seven of the playoffs, winning three, including this year&#8217;s championship. The team won the right to represent the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean Baseball Championship from 1-7 February in Hermosillo, Mexico. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1qKMkDn2hA\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escogido.com\/\">Home 1<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#171;Home 1&#187; &#8212; Escogido.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.escogido.com\/embed\/#?secret=1qKMkDn2hA\" data-secret=\"1qKMkDn2hA\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Santo Domingo-based Leones del Escogido didn&#8217;t give the Aguilas Cibaenas from Santiago a chance. In the playoffs, the capital city team won five straight games of the 9-5 series. The final game, played at the Quisqueya Ball Park in Santo Domingo last night, Tuesday 22 January, ended 3-0. The previous evening, Monday 21 January, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2013\/01\/23\/escogido-wins-baseball-championship\/\" 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":[232,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35063"}],"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=35063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}