{"id":113495,"date":"2026-03-14T04:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pujols-criticizes-korean-secrecy-key-lineup-in-dr-vs-south-korea-duel\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T04:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:59:19","slug":"pujols-criticizes-korean-secrecy-key-lineup-in-dr-vs-south-korea-duel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/pujols-criticizes-korean-secrecy-key-lineup-in-dr-vs-south-korea-duel\/","title":{"rendered":"Pujols criticizes Korean secrecy: Key lineup in DR vs South Korea duel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Albert Pujols criticizes South Korea&#8217;s strategy before the crucial World Baseball Classic game<\/h2>\n\nMiami. The helmsman of the Dominican Republic National Team, Albert Pujols, has expressed his discontent with the South Korean National Team for not disclosing their offensive lineup with enough advance notice, prior to the quarterfinal matchup of the World Baseball Classic that will take place this Friday in Miami.\n\nIn his meeting with the media, the Dominican leader expressed his incomprehension at the practice of the Koreans, and sometimes also the Japanese, of keeping their batting order secret until the last moment. In response to this situation, Pujols confirmed that he will also not reveal the Dominican Republic&#8217;s lineup.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I don&#8217;t know what the mystery is. We are waiting for Korea to send us their lineup, but if they don&#8217;t give it, I won&#8217;t publish mine either.<\/p><cite>Albert Pujols<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nPujols did say that Agustin Ramirez will be the starting catcher for this important game, while Austin Wells, who has played in that position in previous games, will rest.\n\nThe Dominican team will face the experienced left-handed pitcher Hyun Jin Ryu, with an outstanding career in Major League Baseball. The game is scheduled to start at 6:30 PM.\n\nThis match corresponds to the quarter-final phase, where each game is direct elimination: the winning team will advance to the semi-finals, while the losing team will be out of the tournament.\n\nDominican Republic reaches this stage after dominating Group D with a perfect 4-0 record, thanks to an offense that has been one of the most outstanding in the tournament.\n\nThe winner of the match between Dominicans and South Koreans will face the winner of the duel between the United States and Canada in the semifinals, also scheduled for the quarter-final round.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Pujols criticizes South Korea&#8217;s strategy before the crucial World Baseball Classic game Miami. The helmsman of the Dominican Republic National Team, Albert Pujols, has expressed his discontent with the South Korean National Team for not disclosing their offensive lineup with enough advance notice, prior to the quarterfinal matchup of the World Baseball Classic that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[9374,1271,2074,5529],"class_list":{"0":"post-113495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-albert-pujols","9":"tag-dominican-republic","10":"tag-south-korea","11":"tag-world-classic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113495","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=113495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}