{"id":502222,"date":"2026-03-15T15:24:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/alex-rodriguez-praises-the-power-of-the-dominican-republic-before-the-match-against-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T15:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:24:35","slug":"alex-rodriguez-praises-the-power-of-the-dominican-republic-before-the-match-against-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/sports\/baseball\/alex-rodriguez-praises-the-power-of-the-dominican-republic-before-the-match-against-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Rodr\u00edguez praises the power of the Dominican Republic before the match against the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo.\u2013 Former MLB star Alex Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> assured that the match between Dominican Republic national baseball team<\/strong> and United States national baseball team<\/strong> in the World Baseball Classic<\/strong> could become \u201cthe game of the year\u201d, due to the high competitive level of both teams.\n\n\n

You may be interested inr <\/a><\/strong>What you need to know about the semi-finals of the 2026 World Baseball Classic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nRodr\u00edguez highlighted that the clash promises to be one of the most electrifying of the tournament, especially due to the duel expected on the mound, where the American Paul Skenes<\/strong> would face the powerful Dominican offense, which he described as \"the best lineup in the world\" at present.\n\nThe former analyst expressed his enthusiasm for the match between two of the championship's favorite teams, highlighting the quality of the players on both teams.\n\n\"What a damn game,\" Rodr\u00edguez expressed when describing the anticipated duel, making clear the appeal of this match within the tournament.\n\n\n

Highlights the power and cohesion of the Dominican team<\/h3>\n\n\nRodr\u00edguez also praised the Dominican team's composition, noting that the lineup has a combination of offensive power, plate discipline, speed on the bases, and depth in the batting order.\n\nIn his opinion, these elements have been key to the team's good performance during the championship.\n\nThe former player attributed part of the team's cohesion to the work of general manager Nelson Cruz<\/strong> and manager Albert Pujols<\/strong>, who have managed to consolidate a competitive group on and off the field.\n\n\n

Game will be this Sunday in prime time<\/h3>\n\n\nThe match between the Dominican Republic and the United States is scheduled for this Sunday, March 15th at 8:00 PM (Dominican time), in one of the most anticipated games of the World Baseball Classic<\/strong>.\n\nThe match will pit two of the traditional powers of international baseball against each other and will define an important step in the final stretch of the tournament.\n\nIn the Dominican Republic, the match can be followed on open television, with broadcasts on Teleantillas (channel 10)<\/strong>, VTV (channel 32)<\/strong> and Coral (channel 39)<\/strong>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo.\u2013 Former MLB star Alex Rodr\u00edguez assured that the match between Dominican Republic national baseball team and United States national baseball team in the World Baseball Classic could become \u201cthe game of the year\u201d, due to the high competitive level of both teams. You may be interested inr What you need to know about […]<\/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":[26621,611,40231,40813,13766,41186,40230],"class_list":{"0":"post-502222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-baseball","7":"tag-baseball-classic","8":"tag-deultimominuto","9":"tag-dominican-republic","10":"tag-major-leagues","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-theperiodicodelatruth","13":"tag-united-states"},"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\/502222","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=502222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}