Day nine of the playoffs.  Dan Rohlfing gets a key hit.  Cibao kicks one away.

LICEY 7, ESCOGIDO 3 IN ESCOGIDO

Twins:  Dan Rohlfing (Licey) was 1-for-4 with a double and a run.  Jorge Polanco (Escogido) was 1-for-4,  Pedro Florimon (Escogido) was 2-for-4 with two RBIs.

Licey:  Engel Beltre (Texas) was 3-for-4 with a double and a triple, scoring twice and driving in one.  Erick Aybar (Angels) was 1-for-4 with a run and an RBI.  Esmil Rogers (Toronto) struck out six in five innings, giving up an unearned run on three hits and one walk.

Escogido:  Carlos Santana (Cleveland) was 1-for-3 with a double.

The game:  Escogido scored on a sacrifice fly in the first inning.  The lead held up until the fifth when, with a man on first, Beltre circled the bases on a triple-and-error.  Back-to-back doubles by Rohlfing and Jordany Valdespin made it 3-1 Licey.  Licey made it 6-1 in the eighth on RBI singles by Anderson Hernandez and Aybar and a run-scoring fielder's choice.  It went to 7-1 in the ninth.  Escogido rallied for two in the bottom of the ninth but did not threaten to get back into the game.

AGUILAS 5, CIBAO 2 IN AGUILAS

Cibao:  Francisco Peguero (Baltimore) was 1-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs.  Leury Garcia (White Sox) was 2-for-4 with a run.  Zach Kroenke pitched 4.2 scoreless innings, giving up six hits and one walk with two strikeouts.

Aguilas:  Juan Perez (San Francisco) was 1-for-4 with a walk and a two-run homer, his second.  Joey Terdoslavich (Atlanta) was 4-for-5.  Lorenzo Barcelo pitched five innings, allowing two runs on five hits and no walks with two strikeouts.

The game:  Cibao scored on a ground out in the first and on Peguero's homer in the fourth to go ahead 2-0.  Aguilas got on the board in the sixth with an error.  In the eighth an error tied the score and Perez hit a two-run homer to put Aguilas ahead 4-2.  A run scored on a force out later in the inning to make it 5-2.  Cibao got the tying run up to bat with one out in the ninth, but a double play ended the game.  Cibao made four errors.

PLAYOFF STANDINGS

Escogido, 6-3
Licey, 5-4
Aguilas, 4-5
Cibao, 3-6