{"id":501791,"date":"2026-03-09T15:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/juan-marichal-celebrates-by-dancing-rds-qualification-to-the-world-baseball-classic-quarterfinals\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:55:41","slug":"juan-marichal-celebrates-by-dancing-rds-qualification-to-the-world-baseball-classic-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/sports\/baseball\/juan-marichal-celebrates-by-dancing-rds-qualification-to-the-world-baseball-classic-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Marichal celebrates by dancing RD's qualification to the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo. \u2013 The legendary Dominican ex-pitcher and member of the Cooperstown Hall of Fame, <strong>Juan Marichal<\/strong>, expressed his excitement and pride at witnessing the qualification of the <strong>Dominican Republic Baseball Team<\/strong> to the quarterfinals of the <strong>World Baseball Classic,<\/strong> dancing in the Dominican team's clubhouse.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/republica-dominicana-vence-a-israel-y-avanza-a-los-cuartos-de-final-del-clasico-mundial\/\"> Dominican Republic defeats Israel and advances to the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe historic pitcher, known as the \"Monster of Laguna Verde,\" reacted with enthusiasm after the victory of the Dominican team that secured their place in the next round of the tournament, highlighting the talent, dedication, and pride with which the players represent the country.\n\nMarichal, considered one of the greatest legends of Dominican baseball and Major League Baseball, expressed his satisfaction at seeing the performance of the national team, which continues to show a powerful offense and solid work from the mound during the group stage of the tournament.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If anyone needed a reason to love Juan Marichal, who is without a doubt one of the kindest and most humble men I\u2019ve ever had the pleasure to know, just watch this video. <br><br>88 years old and celebrating another dominating DR victory. What a legend. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BQYM9QOzik\">pic.twitter.com\/BQYM9QOzik<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Matt (@iamnotmattt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamnotmattt\/status\/2031095454767751332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 9, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nThe classification of the Quisqueyan squad keeps alive the illusion of conquering the title of the World Baseball Classic again, a competition that brings together the main powers of international baseball.\n\nThe Dominican Republic advanced to the quarterfinals after convincingly winning their group, establishing themselves as one of the favorite teams to continue advancing in the tournament and fight for the championship.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo. \u2013 The legendary Dominican ex-pitcher and member of the Cooperstown Hall of Fame, Juan Marichal, expressed his excitement and pride at witnessing the qualification of the Dominican Republic Baseball Team to the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic, dancing in the Dominican team&#8217;s clubhouse. You may be interested in: Dominican Republic defeats Israel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40853,41301],"class_list":{"0":"post-501791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-baseball","7":"tag-deultimominuto","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-thetruthnewspaper","10":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}