{"id":112039,"date":"2026-03-08T04:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dominicana-crushes-nicaragua-home-runs-by-caminero-rodriguez-and-cruz\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T04:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:56:28","slug":"dominicana-crushes-nicaragua-home-runs-by-caminero-rodriguez-and-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/dominicana-crushes-nicaragua-home-runs-by-caminero-rodriguez-and-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominicana crushes Nicaragua: Home runs by Caminero, Rodr\u00edguez, and Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominican Republic Starts Strong in the 2026 World Baseball Classic<\/h2>\n\n\n<b>Miami<\/b> \u2013 The Dominican Republic national team made a resounding debut in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, defeating Nicaragua with a score of 12-3 at loanDepot park in Miami. The Dominican offense, powered by home runs from Junior Caminero, Julio Rodr\u00edguez, and Oneil Cruz, demonstrated its power from the start of the game.\n\nBefore an audience of 35,127 fanatics, the Dominican team reacted after a challenging start, deploying a relentless attack that accumulated 14 hits.\n\nIT&#8217;S GONE \ud83d\ude2d\nJUNIOR CAMINERO IS AN ELECTRIC FACTORY \u26a1\ufe0f\n\nThe crucial moment of the game came in the sixth inning, when Caminero hit a home run that broke the tie at three runs, putting the Dominicans ahead 5-3. Later, in the eighth inning, Rodriguez hit an impressive home run to left field, followed by a home run by Cruz to right field, with two runners on base, extending the lead to 10-3.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Juliooooooo \ud83d\ude2e\u200d\ud83d\udca8<br>Julio Rodriguez ties the game for Team Dominican Republic!<\/p><cite>World Baseball Classic<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nDominican Republic&#8217;s offensive production continued, with a double by Vladimir Guerrero Jr. that increased the difference, and Rodriguez adding another run to the scoreboard.\n\nThe Dominican pitchers&#8217; relief was fundamental in securing the victory, working seven scoreless innings and neutralizing the Nicaraguan offense after the first few innings.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Oneil Cruz joins the party! HR to the second deck!<\/p><cite>MLB Espa\u00f1ol<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nWith this triumph, the Dominican Republic begins its participation in the tournament on the right foot. The team will rest this Saturday and will resume action on Sunday at noon, facing the Netherlands in its second group match.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Republic Starts Strong in the 2026 World Baseball Classic Miami \u2013 The Dominican Republic national team made a resounding debut in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, defeating Nicaragua with a score of 12-3 at loanDepot park in Miami. The Dominican offense, powered by home runs from Junior Caminero, Julio Rodr\u00edguez, and Oneil Cruz, demonstrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,1271,1117,5529],"class_list":{"0":"post-112039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dominican-republic","10":"tag-home-runs","11":"tag-world-classic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112039","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=112039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}