Photo: Doug Gray
On Sunday afternoon in the Dominican Republic the Gigantes hit the road to face off against Escogido. A little more than six hours after the first pitch of the game was thrown the game came to an end. The game itself took nearly four hours of play, but a rain delay that was over two hours really extended how long it took for the game to be completed. The Gigantes would pick up a road win, topping the home team 13-9.
The scoring got started in the top of the 2nd inning when Carlos Jorge came to the plate with a runner on third base. He was facing off against former teammate with the Gigantes Angel Sanchez (big leaguer in 2017 before going to both Korea and Japan to pitch for several years before returning to the US. In 2025 he pitched in Mexico.) and had worked a full count. Sanchez tried to get a cutter by Jorge on the inner half of the plate but the Cincinnati Reds 22-year-old outfield prospect turned on it and sent it 370 feet down the line for a go-ahead home run. Later in the game he picked up an RBI single on a line drive into left field.
For Carlos Jorge it was his second home run of the winter league season. He homered in the second game of the season. The game on Sunday was his 32nd game of the season – he missed three weeks in November. Jorge had been in a big slump before this game, having gone 1-22 from December 13th through the 20th. That dropped his OPS from .749 to .614, but his 2-5 night bumped that back up to .656. For context, the league has a .694 OPS as a whole where the league average position player is 29-years-old. Jorge turned 22 at the end of September and is just one of two players in the league who have 100 plate appearances in the league and are in their “age 21” season this year. The other player is also a Reds prospect – Hector Rodriguez.
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