Dominican Digest: Games of 12/18

Three out of four Twins have good games.  A walkoff homer for Escogido.  Big innings decide the other two games.

ESCOGIDO 4, ESTE 3 IN ESCOGIDO

Twins:  Chris Colabello (Este) was 2-for-3.  Jorge Polanco (Escogido) was 0-for-4 with a walk.  Aderlin Mejia (Escogido) was 2-for-4 with a triple and an RBI.

Este:  Eugenio Velez (Milwaukee) was 2-for-4 with a walk and a double.  Cesar Puello (Mets) was 2-for-3 with a double and a run.  Claudio Vargas pitched three shutout innings, giving up four hits and one walk with two strikeouts.

Escogido:  Carlos Santana (Cleveland) was 3-for-5 with a home run.  Miguel Olivo (Seattle) was 2-for-4 with a double and a triple, scoring twice.  Roberto Novoa struck out two in two shutout innings, allowing one hit and no walks.

The game:  A sacrifice fly put Este on the board in the second and an RBI single from Mayo Acosta (Tampa Bay) made it 2-0 in the fourth.  Mejia had an RBI triple in the bottom of the fourth to cut the lead to 2-1, but Este got the run back in the sixth when Feliz delivered an RBI single.  The lead held up until the eighth, when an error and a run-scoring single by Gregory Polanco (Pittsburgh) tied the score.  Santana led off the ninth with a walkoff homer.

AGUILAS 7, LICEY 4 IN AGUILAS

Twins:  Danny Santana (Aguilas) was 2-for-3 with a run and an RBI.

Licey:  Anderson Hernandez was 2-for-4 with two home runs, his third and fourth.  Engel Beltre (Texas) was 1-for-3 with a walk and a triple, scoring once.  Hector Noesi (Seattle) pitched five innings, giving up two runs on four hits and no walks.

Aguilas:  Juan Perez (San Francisco) was 3-for-4 with two doubles, scoring once and driving in three.  Audry Perez (St. Louis) was 2-for-3 with a double and two runs.  Kelvin Villa struck out eight in 3.2 innings, allowing one run on two hits and one walk.

The game:  Licey scored single runs in each of the first three innings to take a 3-0 lead.  Aguilas came back with two in the bottom of the third on a home run by Mike Bianucci (Texas) and an RBI single by Santana.  Juan Perez doubled in Audry Perez in the sixth to tie it up at three.  Licey went ahead 4-3 in the seventh on a Hernandez homer, but Aguilas took control of the game with a four-run eighth.  Juan Perez had a two-run single that put Aguilas ahead.  Licey sent only three men to the plate in the ninth.

ORIENTE 9, CIBAO 4 IN ORIENTE

Cibao:  Juan Silverio (Cincinnati) was 2-for-4 with a double and two RBIs.  Leury Garcia was 2-for-5 with an RBI.  Moises Sierra (Toronto) was 1-for-3 with a walk and a run.

Oriente:  Alfredo Marte (Arizona) was 1-for-3 with two walks and a three-run homer (his third), scoring twice.  Michael Martinez (Pittsburgh) was 3-for-5 with a double and an RBI.  Ed Rogers was 4-for-5 with a run and an RBI.

The game:  Each team scored three times in the first.  Cibao got an RBI single from Garcia in the second to go ahead 4-3, but Oriente tied it in the fourth on a Rogers RBI single.  It was tied until the sixth, when Oriente scored five times to take control of the game.  Audy Ciriaco had a two-run double in the inning.