{"id":112238,"date":"2026-03-09T04:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/santiago-matias-historic-launch-and-dominican-unity-in-the-world-baseball-classic-3\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T04:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:58:25","slug":"santiago-matias-historic-launch-and-dominican-unity-in-the-world-baseball-classic-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/santiago-matias-historic-launch-and-dominican-unity-in-the-world-baseball-classic-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago Mat\u00edas: Historic Launch and Dominican Unity in the World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"Miami \u2013 Santiago Mat\u00edas, CEO of Alofoke Media Group, experienced a historic moment by throwing the first pitch in the game between the Dominican Republic Baseball Team and the Netherlands Baseball Team in the World Baseball Classic, held at LoanDepot Park.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Historic Honor for Santiago Mat\u00edas<\/h2>\n\n\nMat\u00edas expressed his gratitude for the opportunity to participate in an event of such magnitude, highlighting the ability of these moments to unite Dominicans, both inside and outside the country.\n\n\u201cThis is a feeling of a historic moment. Only President Luis Abinader and I have had the honor of throwing the first pitch on this stage\u201d\n\nThe content creator also extended his gratitude to Major League Baseball and the event organizers for including Dominican figures in the pre-game ceremony, which represents a source of pride for the Dominican community abroad.\n\nMat\u00edas took the opportunity to reflect on the relevance of unity among Dominicans, especially in the migratory context that the community faces in various parts of the world.\n\n\u201cThis was the opportunity we needed to unite Dominicans under God&#8217;s blessing and our flag\u201d\n\nThe CEO of Alofoke Media Group highlighted that baseball continues to be an essential meeting point for the Dominican diaspora, where national pride is strongly manifested every time the national team competes.\n\nThe game is part of the World Baseball Classic, a tournament that brings together the top national teams in the world and attracts the attention of millions of fans, especially from the Dominican community.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami \u2013 Santiago Mat\u00edas, CEO of Alofoke Media Group, experienced a historic moment by throwing the first pitch in the game between the Dominican Republic Baseball Team and the Netherlands Baseball Team in the World Baseball Classic, held at LoanDepot Park. A Historic Honor for Santiago Mat\u00edas Mat\u00edas expressed his gratitude for the opportunity to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,1271,7576,5529],"class_list":{"0":"post-112238","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-santiago-matias","11":"tag-world-classic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112238","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=112238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}