The right-hander César Valdez allowed two runs in seven innings and Ramón Hernández hit a two-run home run in a four-run cluster at the bottom of the third inning as the Tigres del Licey defeated the Toros del Este 6-5 in a game corresponding to the tournament Tomás Troncoso Cuesta winter baseball game held this Friday at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal stadium. With their win, the Tigers stop a two-game losing streak to put their record at 22-10 and tie their particular series against their rival tonight at 3-3. On their side, the bullfighting team fell 19 times with 14 wins. Veteran César Valdez (3-0) opened the match for the Tigres del Licey, who managed to overcome a bad moment in the first episode when they scored two goals against him. From then on, he recovered until the indigos turned the score around with four runs in the fourth inning to give him the lead and clinch the victory. Luis Medina (0-2) started for the Toros del Este, who worked 2.1 innings, allowed one hit, had two runs, awarded three walks and struck out two to become the losing pitcher. He was then relieved by Pedro Payano, followed by Jasseel de la Cruz (4th) Emailin Montilla (5th), Nick Tropeano (7th), Cristopher Sanchez (7th) and Jenrry Mejía in 8th. Jairo Asencio worked the ninth to earn his ninth save. They also titrated for the blues, Hansel Robles pitched the eighth inning and Arodys Vizcaíno. For the Bulls, Miguel Andújar hit a home run with one on board, Ronny Simon hit a solo home run. For the Licey, Ramón Hernández dispatched a home run with two in circulation; Luis Barrera and Mel Rojas Jr. linked two hits and Alex Call a hit.
The races
The first to score were the Toros del Este when they produced two runs in the first inning with the following movement: Ronny Simón homered to the right field, Jesús Sánchez followed with a double to the left, after two outs, Brayan de la Cruz dispatched a double tug of the second round of the Bulls. The Tigres del Licey fought back in the bottom of the third inning when they turned the score 4-2. The rally began with a triple by Luis Barreras to center field, Sergio Alcántara missed with a grounder to first, but Barreras scored from third base, Ronny Mauricio was bowled, and stole second, Ramón Hernández followed with a home run to the left meadow, after one out, Mel Rojas Jr singled and towed a teammate. In the fifth, Miles Mastrobuoni singled with two runners in position to extend the Tigers’ lead to 6-2.
Miguel Andújar homered with one board in the ninth off Arodys Vizcaíno and Rodolfo Castro hit an RBI grounder to second.