{"id":113814,"date":"2026-03-16T00:10:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/derosa-praises-dominican-republic-and-highlights-usa-pitching-in-classic-semifinal\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:10:44","slug":"derosa-praises-dominican-republic-and-highlights-usa-pitching-in-classic-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/derosa-praises-dominican-republic-and-highlights-usa-pitching-in-classic-semifinal\/","title":{"rendered":"DeRosa Praises Dominican Republic and Highlights USA Pitching in Classic Semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"Miami, Florida. Mark DeRosa, manager of the United States, expressed his admiration for the game against the Dominican Republic after the 2-1 victory in the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic.\n\nThe meeting, held at loanDepot Park in Miami, was, according to DeRosa, one of the most outstanding he has witnessed.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s a game we&#8217;ll never forget. The Dominican Republic always had people on base, and that speaks to the danger their lineup represents.<\/p><cite>Mark DeRosa<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nDeRosa emphasized the importance of the performance of the American pitchers, who managed to control the powerful Dominican offense.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Without a doubt, to be honest, our pitchers did a really good job. I tip my hat to them for the way they were able to shut down the powerful Dominican Republic lineup.<\/p><cite>Mark DeRosa<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nAdditionally, DeRosa praised the performance of Paul Skenes, whom he considers one of the most outstanding pitchers in current baseball.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We can say that De Paul is the best pitcher in the sport. What he did today was a demonstration of talent at the highest level.<\/p><cite>Mark DeRosa<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nFinally, DeRosa highlighted the high level of competition and talent exhibited in the tournament by both teams.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Today&#8217;s performance was a display of talent at the highest level.<\/p><cite>Mark DeRosa<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami, Florida. Mark DeRosa, manager of the United States, expressed his admiration for the game against the Dominican Republic after the 2-1 victory in the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic. The meeting, held at loanDepot Park in Miami, was, according to DeRosa, one of the most outstanding he has witnessed. It&#8217;s a game we&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,1271,641,5529],"class_list":{"0":"post-113814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nationals","7":"tag-baseball","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-world-classic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113814","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=113814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}