Luis García Jr. put two personal records on the same line Thursday, hitting his 23rd home run of the season and reaching 76 RBIs for the year. The outburst gave him new MLB highs in both categories and came with a 3-for-5 night that also included a double, a triple, one run scored and two RBIs.
That is the kind of game that turns a strong season into a milestone. García did not just add to his totals; he pushed them past every mark he had set before, giving the Nacionales de Washington a middle-of-the-order bat that has carried more weight as the 2026 season has gone on.
In the broader roundup of players from the Gigantes del Cibao organization, García’s numbers stood out most because of the scale of the jump. He was described as the leading Dominican player in Major League Baseball during the 2026 season, a claim backed by the way his production has stacked up through the year. The story did not provide side-by-side totals for the other Dominican players mentioned in that larger context, but García’s own ledger was enough to make the point.
Elsewhere in the roundup, Deyvison de los Santos hit a two-run home run in Triple A and finished the day with three hits across two games and two RBIs. Derlin Figueroa homered, drove in three runs and finished 1-for-2 with a walk and a stolen base in Clase A Avanzada. Several others added smaller but still useful lines, including Agustín Ramírez, Kelvin Gutiérrez, Arístides Aquino, Jefferson Rojas and Emil Morales.
For García, the unresolved question is not whether the season has become a breakthrough. It has. The question now is how much farther he can drive those new highs before the year ends, after a Thursday that turned one home run into a clear personal benchmark.
