{"id":115243,"date":"2026-03-23T08:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alcantara-dominates-soto-ready-for-the-2026-mlb-season\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:26:36","slug":"alcantara-dominates-soto-ready-for-the-2026-mlb-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/alcantara-dominates-soto-ready-for-the-2026-mlb-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Alc\u00e1ntara Dominates Soto: Ready for the 2026 MLB Season"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo \u2013 Dominican star pitcher Sandy Alc\u00e1ntara concluded his participation in spring training with a performance that reaffirms his preparation for the 2026 Major League Baseball season.\n\nAlc\u00e1ntara demonstrated his dominance by striking out his compatriot Juan Soto twice, in a matchup that captured the attention of the fans.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Star Showdown in Spring Training<\/h2>\n\n\nThe two players, who recently represented the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic, met as rivals in Spring Training, offering one of the most anticipated duels.\n\nAlc\u00e1ntara pitched for 4.2 innings, allowing five hits and three runs, but struck out six in the Marlins&#8217; 4-3 victory.\n\nThe most notable thing was the recovery of his ability to strike out batters, accumulating 16 strikeouts in 12.2 innings during the preseason.\n\nThe face-off with Soto was particularly exciting. In the first inning, Alc\u00e1ntara dominated him with a sweeper at 84.6 miles per hour after a full count (3-2). Soto responded with an unstoppable hit in his second at-bat, but Alc\u00e1ntara prevailed again in the fifth inning, striking him out with an 86.5 mph cutter for his sixth strikeout of the game.\n\nAs the 2022 Cy Young Award winner, Alc\u00e1ntara will be the Marlins&#8217; starting pitcher on Opening Day, facing Colorado this Friday at 7:10 PM.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo \u2013 Dominican star pitcher Sandy Alc\u00e1ntara concluded his participation in spring training with a performance that reaffirms his preparation for the 2026 Major League Baseball season. Alc\u00e1ntara demonstrated his dominance by striking out his compatriot Juan Soto twice, in a matchup that captured the attention of the fans. Star Showdown in Spring Training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,345,1121,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-115243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-juan-soto","10":"tag-marlins","11":"tag-sandy-alcantara"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115243","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=115243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}