Socrates did it again! KIA Abandoned Winning Foreigner Gives Legendary Pujols a Winning Cup God came to me. Roar.
Jan 28, 2025
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Socrates' team, Leonese del Esgido, won the title with a 6-5 victory over Tigress del Lisay in Game 7 of the 2024-2025 Dominican Professional Baseball (LIDOM) Champions Series in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on the 28th (Korea time).
In the top of the ninth inning, when the score was 5-5, Junior Caminero (Tampa Bay Rays) hit a home run over the center fence to win the championship.
However, in the bottom of the ninth inning, the closer shook and faced a decisive crisis with two outs and runners on the second and third bases. It was a moment when the game, the victory or defeat of the series, and the direction of the champion could be overturned at once.
Here, Francisco Mejia (former Tampa Bay) has a hit that falls in front of the right field. If it was a hit, it would have been a finishing hit.
But Socrates caught the out with a miraculous diving catch. At the moment the match was decided, Socrates stood in place and roared hot, marking the final scene of the season.
Leonese's director is none other than 'Legend'Albert Pujols. Socrates was initially playing center field, but he moved to right field at the judgment of Pujols ahead of the defense in the bottom of the ninth inning. As a legend, the animal's sense of catching the winner stood out.
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Due to the nature of the Dominican League, which is held in winter during the Major League break, many of the players who participated in the game are active major leaguers or well-known to domestic baseball fans.
Socrates is a foreign player with a batting average of 322, 63 home runs, 270 RBIs, and an OPS (on-base plus slugging) of 0.843 in his three seasons playing for KIA. This year, he led KIA to the top of the regular season with a batting average of 312 home runs, 97 RBIs and an OPS of 0.875, and also hit four RBIs, including a two-run home run in the fourth game of the Korean Series, with a batting average of .300 (6 hits in 20 at-bats) and five RBIs, giving KIA its first win in seven years since 2017.
However, the KIA team said goodbye to Socrates after the season by recruiting Patrick Wisdom from the Chicago Cubs, who shot 88 home runs in the major leagues, judging that they needed a player with better slugging power than Socrates.
The starting pitcher for Socrates' team, Leones, was Johnny Cueto (former Los Angeles Angels), who played in the Major League until last year. Cueto, who is currently an FA, was sluggish with five hits and three runs (two earned) in four innings.
Yamaico Navarro, who played for the Samsung Lions in the past, also belongs to the team. Navarro devastated the league with 79 home runs and an OPS of 0.978 during the two seasons (2014-2015) when he played for Samsung. In particular, Navarro's 48 home runs are still the most home runs in a single season at second base after 10 years.
Navarro did not show a clear performance in the regular season, but he became one of the leading players in Leones' victory with an upset two-run double in the sixth inning in the final game.
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On the same day, Leonese led off the fourth against Leeds by scoring two runs, but was upset 2-4 with four runs in the bottom of the fifth.
However, he followed with a timely hit by Segura (former Miami Marlins) following Caminero's double in the top of the sixth inning, and Navarro's two-run timely hit that followed turned the game around 5-4.
Leonese allowed a 5-5 tie in the seventh inning, but Socrates enjoyed the joy of winning the championship by keeping one of the last out counts following Caminero's winning home run in the ninth inning.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
