{"id":114522,"date":"2026-03-19T04:55:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/venezuela-celebrates-national-baseball-day-after-epic-victory-in-the-world-baseball-classic\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T04:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:55:56","slug":"venezuela-celebrates-national-baseball-day-after-epic-victory-in-the-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/venezuela-celebrates-national-baseball-day-after-epic-victory-in-the-world-baseball-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Celebrates National Baseball Day After Epic Victory in the World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Venezuela Celebrates Baseball: March 17th, National Day<\/h2>\n\n\nCaracas \u2013 Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez announced this Wednesday an important decision for national sport. March 17th has been decreed as National Baseball Day in Venezuela, a date to commemorate the historic victory of the Venezuelan team in the World Baseball Classic.\n\nThe announcement was made during an official event at the Miraflores Palace, where ministers and government members gathered to celebrate the triumph. Rodr\u00edguez highlighted the importance of this achievement for the country and the need to honor the new champions.\n\nIn addition to the holiday, the creation of a &#8220;Walk of Stars&#8221; was approved in Plaza de la Juventud, located in Caracas. This space will be dedicated to the players of the national team, immortalizing their names and achievements.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Each of their names shines in those stars.<\/p><cite>Delcy Rodr\u00edguez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe idea of the &#8220;Walk of Stars&#8221; came from a proposal by the outstanding player Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr., who shared an image of the Hollywood Walk of Fame on his Instagram account, suggesting something similar for Caracas.\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr.&#8217;s Post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe vice president also reported that efforts are being made with the United States government and several Major League teams to facilitate a visit by the players to Venezuela, taking advantage of the break in spring training.\n\nOn Tuesday, after the victory, Rodr\u00edguez had declared Wednesday a non-working day of national jubilation, with the exception of essential service workers.\n\nVenezuela won against the United States with a score of 3-2 at LoanPark Stadium in Miami.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela Celebrates Baseball: March 17th, National Day Caracas \u2013 Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez announced this Wednesday an important decision for national sport. March 17th has been decreed as National Baseball Day in Venezuela, a date to commemorate the historic victory of the Venezuelan team in the World Baseball Classic. The announcement was made during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,6697,2182,5529],"class_list":{"0":"post-114522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-caracas","10":"tag-venezuela","11":"tag-world-classic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114522","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=114522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}