{"id":112088,"date":"2026-03-08T11:13:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/erik-gonzalez-pujols-is-like-a-father-in-the-world-baseball-classic\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:13:54","slug":"erik-gonzalez-pujols-is-like-a-father-in-the-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/erik-gonzalez-pujols-is-like-a-father-in-the-world-baseball-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Gonz\u00e1lez: &#8220;Pujols is like a father&#8221; in the World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Erik Gonz\u00e1lez Takes Over Dominican Shortstop in the World Baseball Classic<\/h2>\n\nMiami \u2013 Leones del Escogido infielder Erik Gonz\u00e1lez expressed his pride and commitment after being selected to cover the shortstop position for the Dominican Republic Baseball Team in the upcoming World Baseball Classic.\n\nThe opportunity arises following the injury of the outstanding Jeremy Pe\u00f1a. Gonz\u00e1lez received the news directly from the manager of the Dominican team, Albert Pujols.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I received the call, I felt very grateful. Albert was my favorite player when I was growing up and now having him as a manager is something incredible. It&#8217;s like having a dad there,\u201d the player expressed.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Erik Gonz\u00e1lez<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe infielder highlighted the quality of the Dominican team, emphasizing the presence of numerous stars on the roster. &#8220;Too much talent. The stars that are here&#8230; I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s another equal scenario,&#8221; Gonz\u00e1lez stated.\n\nThe Dominican team&#8217;s objective is clear: to compete at the highest level and aim for the championship. &#8220;We are going for everything,&#8221; he declared with determination.\n\nThe Dominican Republic Baseball Team arrives at the World Baseball Classic with a team full of Major League figures and with the ambition of conquering the title, as they did undefeated in 2013.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Gonz\u00e1lez Takes Over Dominican Shortstop in the World Baseball Classic Miami \u2013 Leones del Escogido infielder Erik Gonz\u00e1lez expressed his pride and commitment after being selected to cover the shortstop position for the Dominican Republic Baseball Team in the upcoming World Baseball Classic. The opportunity arises following the injury of the outstanding Jeremy Pe\u00f1a. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[9374,88,12140,5529],"class_list":{"0":"post-112088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-albert-pujols","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-erik-gonzalez","11":"tag-world-classic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112088","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=112088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}