{"id":112117,"date":"2026-03-08T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/erik-gonzalez-honored-by-pujols-call-to-the-world-baseball-classic-its-like-a-father\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:00:00","slug":"erik-gonzalez-honored-by-pujols-call-to-the-world-baseball-classic-its-like-a-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/erik-gonzalez-honored-by-pujols-call-to-the-world-baseball-classic-its-like-a-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Gonz\u00e1lez Honored by Pujols&#8217; Call to the World Baseball Classic: &#8220;It&#8217;s like a father&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Erik Gonz\u00e1lez Assumes Dominican Shortstop in the World Baseball Classic<\/h2>\n\nMiami, United States &#8211; 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 designation comes after the injury of the star 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\"><p>When 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 incredible. It&#8217;s like having a dad there.<\/p><cite>Erik Gonz\u00e1lez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nGonz\u00e1lez emphasized the quality of the Dominican team, highlighting the presence of numerous stars in the roster.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Too much talent. The stars here\u2026 I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s another stage like it.<\/p><cite>Erik Gonz\u00e1lez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Dominican team&#8217;s objective is clear: to compete at the highest level and fight for the championship.\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 trophy, just as they did undefeated in 2013.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Gonz\u00e1lez Assumes Dominican Shortstop in the World Baseball Classic Miami, United States &#8211; 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 designation comes after the injury of the star Jeremy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[9374,88,929,12140],"class_list":{"0":"post-112117","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-classic","11":"tag-erik-gonzalez"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112117","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=112117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}