Dominican League: Games of January 12

Day fourteen of the playoffs.  A good day for Pedro Florimon.  Cibao overcomes its own mistakes.

CIBAO 6, ESCOGIDO 5 IN CIBAO (10 INNINGS)

Twins:  Pedro Florimon (Escogido) was 2-for-5 with a run and an RBI.

Escogido:  Eury Perez (Washington) was 3-for-5 with a double.  Pedro Ciriaco (Kansas City) was 2-for-5 with a walk and a run.  Alfredo Marte (Arizona) was 1-for-1 with a walk and a double, driving in two.

Cibao:  Josh Whitesell was 3-for-5 with a double and two RBIs.  Leury Garcia (White Sox) was 3-for-4 with a walk and two runs.  Zach Kroenke struck out five in five innings, allowing one run on six hits and no walks.

The game:  Cibao got RBI singles from Francisco Peguero (Baltimore) and Whitesell to take a 2-0 lead in the first.  Hector Gomez (Milwaukee) homered in the second to make it 3-0.  Each team scored once in the fifth.  Marte doubled in a run in the eighth, but it was still 4-2 Cibao.  In the top of the ninth, a single, an error, and four walks brought home three runs and put Escogido ahead 5-4.  With one out in the bottom of the ninth, an error on a rundown play tied the score.  In the tenth, Peguero led off with a walk and scored from first on Whitesell's double to end the game.

LICEY 4, AGUILAS 1 IN LICEY

Twins:  Dan Rohlfing (Licey) was 1-for-4.

Aguilas:  Joey Terdoslavich (Atlanta) was 2-for-4 with a run.  Kelvin Villa pitched three innings, giving up one run on three hits and no walks.

Licey:  Eugenio Velez (Milwaukee) was 3-for-4 with three RBIs.  Emilio Bonifacio (Kansas City) was 2-for-5 with a double and an RBI.  Esmil Rogers (Toronto) pitched six shutout innings, allowing two hits and two walks with four strikeouts.

The game:  Licey opened the scoring in the second on an RBI single by Bonifacio.  In the fourth, Felix Perez (Cincinnati) tripled and scored on a Velez single to make it 2-0.  Aguilas got one in the seventh, but a Velez two-run single in the eighth put Licey in control of the game.  Aguilas went down in order in the ninth.

PLAYOFF STANDINGS

Escogido, 9-5
Licey, 7-7
Aguilas, 6-8
Cibao, 6-8