{"id":502144,"date":"2026-03-13T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/ortiz-beltre-and-martinez-throw-the-first-ceremonial-pitch-for-the-dominican-republic\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:27:00","slug":"ortiz-beltre-and-martinez-throw-the-first-ceremonial-pitch-for-the-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/sports\/baseball\/ortiz-beltre-and-martinez-throw-the-first-ceremonial-pitch-for-the-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ortiz, Beltr\u00e9, and Mart\u00ednez throw the first ceremonial pitch for the Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Miami.<\/strong> Three Dominican baseball legends came together to star in a special moment before the quarter-final game of the World Baseball Classic between the Dominican Republic and South Korea at loanDepot park.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/deslizamiento-espectacular-de-guerrero-jr-abre-el-camino-para-dominicana-ante-corea\/\">Spectacular slide by Guerrero Jr. opens the way for Dominican Republic against Korea<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nHall of Fame immortals David Ortiz, Adri\u00e1n Beltr\u00e9, and Pedro Mart\u00ednez were in charge of making the <strong>first ceremonial pitch<\/strong>, unleashing the ovation of the Dominican public present in the stadium.\n\nThe ceremony was part of the support that several historical figures of Dominican baseball have given to the team during the tournament. Days before, Hall of Famer Juan Marichal had participated in the honorary pitch prior to another game of the Quisqueyan team.\n\nWith this participation, four of the five Dominicans who belong to the <strong>Cooperstown Hall of Fame<\/strong> have played a prominent role in the ceremonial acts of the last matches of the national team. The only one who has not yet made the ceremonial pitch is Vladimir Guerrero.\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami. Three Dominican baseball legends came together to star in a special moment before the quarter-final game of the World Baseball Classic between the Dominican Republic and South Korea at loanDepot park. You may be interested in: Spectacular slide by Guerrero Jr. opens the way for Dominican Republic against Korea Hall of Fame immortals David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,41186,41301],"class_list":{"0":"post-502144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-baseball","7":"tag-deultimominuto","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-theperiodicodelatruth","10":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502144","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}