{"id":109446,"date":"2026-02-21T14:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dominican-republic-crushes-at-pan-american-softball-beats-guatemala-9-0\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T14:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:53:19","slug":"dominican-republic-crushes-at-pan-american-softball-beats-guatemala-9-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/dominican-republic-crushes-at-pan-american-softball-beats-guatemala-9-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic crushes at Pan American softball: Beats Guatemala 9-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dominican Republic Debuts with Crushing Victory in the Pan American Softball Championship<\/h2>\n\n<b>Monter\u00eda, Colombia.<\/b> The Dominican Republic&#8217;s men&#8217;s national team began its participation in the XIII Pan American Men&#8217;s Softball Championship with a resounding 9-0 victory over Guatemala. The match took place this Saturday at the Jos\u00e9 Gabriel Am\u00edn Manzur stadium.\n\nThe performance of the Dominican pitchers was key to the triumph. Yan Carlos \u201cEl Pinto\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez and Joni Javier Suriel combined their efforts to limit the Guatemalan offense to only one hit in five innings.\n\nGonz\u00e1lez, who secured the victory, pitched three impeccable innings, striking out seven batters and conceding one walk. Suriel relieved afterwards.\n\nThe Dominican offense demonstrated its power from the first inning, scoring two runs. They continued to add runs in the following innings: one in the second, two in the third, and four in the fourth, securing the victory by knockout.\n\nThe Dominicans connected 14 hits, while Guatemala could only connect one, courtesy of Gerardo Dacaret.\n\nGian Ferrari V\u00e9liz, pitcher from Guatemala, took the loss, allowing eight hits and five earned runs in 2.1 innings.\n\n<b>Prominent figures in the Dominican offensive:<\/b>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Luis Hiciano: 4-2, with a double and two runs scored.<\/li>\n<li>Jendry Torres: 4-2, with one RBI.<\/li>\n<li>Juan Arias: 3-2, with one RBI.<\/li>\n<li>Yoel De Mota: 3-1, with one RBI.<\/li>\n<li>Fernando G\u00f3mez: 3-2, with three RBIs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nWith this victory, the Dominican Republic adds its first three points in Group C, which also includes the United States and Mexico. The tournament is qualifying for international events, such as the Central American and Caribbean Games Santo Domingo 2026, the Pan American Games Lima 2027, and the Softball World Cup 2027.\n\nThe Dominican Republic national team&#8217;s next match will be against Mexico.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Republic Debuts with Crushing Victory in the Pan American Softball Championship Monter\u00eda, Colombia. The Dominican Republic&#8217;s men&#8217;s national team began its participation in the XIII Pan American Men&#8217;s Softball Championship with a resounding 9-0 victory over Guatemala. The match took place this Saturday at the Jos\u00e9 Gabriel Am\u00edn Manzur stadium. The performance of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1271,3699,11023,565],"class_list":{"0":"post-109446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-guatemala","10":"tag-pan-american","11":"tag-softball"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}