La Romana´s Toros fade as winter baseball heats up

Santo Domingo.- A long homerby Jordany Valdespin in the first inning, a RBI sacrifice fly Audy Ciriaco inthe third, combined with shutout pitching led by opener Adrian Salcedo waseverything the Estrellas of San Pedro needed to beat the Toros of La Romana 2to 0

The Estrellas´ win in theDominican Winter Baseball playoffs held at Tetelo Vargas stadium in San Pedrode Macoris on Monday puts them in a tie for second place with Santo Domingo´sLeones, who lost to the Tigres, also from Santo Domingo, 4 to 3 yesterday.

The Toros fade awaywith a record of 2 wins to 5 losses.

Meanwhile the Tigres routedthe Leones 14 to 3 at Quisqueya stadium, to continue solid in first place.