Alen Hanson Makes Big Impact for Toros del Este

played second base for Toro del Estes and scored four times.

Alen Hanson certainly knows how to make his presence felt on a baseball field.  In his Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League debut, Hanson showed why so many feel that as soon as the talented infielder gets out of his own way, he could be impacting games at the big league level.  The Pirates had Hanson in the doghouse repeatedly during his Double-A season in Altoona.  It seems Hanson put that in the rear view mirror as he pulled on the orange jersey last night when he collected two hits and scored four times for his Toros del Este club.

The second baseman came to the plate five times and reached base in four trips with his two knocks, one an infield single and Hanson also walked twice.

Old Bucco Matt Hague kept collecting hits, grabbing three more in the 7-4 win over the Cibao Eagles last night at Francisco Micheli Stadium.

Click here to check out Alen Hanson on the Toros del Este site.

Alen Hanson official page

Willy Garcia walked and scored in his debut.

In case you’re not familar with the league, here is information from the Dominican Professional Baseball League wiki page.

The Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (Spanish: Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana) or LIDOM by its acronym in Spanish, is a winter professional baseball league consisting of six teams spread across the Dominican Republic; it is the highest level of professional baseball league in the Dominican Republic. The league’s players include many prospects that go on to play in Major League Baseball in the United States while also signing many current MLB veterans. The champion of LIDOM advances to play in the yearly Caribbean Series.

Each team plays a fifty-game round-robin schedule that begins at the middle of October and runs to the end of December. The top four teams engage in another round-robin schedule with 18 games per team from the end of December to the end of January; the top two teams in those standings then play a best-of-nine series for the national title. The league’s champion advances to the Caribbean Series to play against the representatives from Mexico, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico.