{"id":115339,"date":"2026-03-24T04:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alcantara-dominated-soto-and-prepares-for-the-2026-mlb-season\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:59:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:59:46","slug":"alcantara-dominated-soto-and-prepares-for-the-2026-mlb-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/alcantara-dominated-soto-and-prepares-for-the-2026-mlb-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Alc\u00e1ntara Dominated Soto and Prepares for the 2026 MLB Season"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo \u2013 Dominican star pitcher Sandy Alc\u00e1ntara finished 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 duel 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, now faced each other as rivals in Spring Training. This matchup was one of the highlights of the day.\n\nIn 4.2 innings pitched, Alc\u00e1ntara allowed five hits and three runs, while accumulating six strikeouts in the Marlins&#8217; 4-3 victory. A key aspect was the recovery of his ability to strike out, adding 16 strikeouts in 12.2 innings during the preseason.\n\nThe face-off with Soto unfolded in three innings. In the first, Alc\u00e1ntara took Soto to a full count (3-2) before dominating him with an 84.6 mph sweeper. In his second turn, Soto hit a single to center field on a 2-2 count. However, in the fifth inning, Alc\u00e1ntara prevailed again, retiring him with an 86.5 mph cutter, sealing his sixth strikeout of the game.\n\nAs the 2022 Cy Young Award winner, Alc\u00e1ntara will take on the responsibility of opening the Inaugural Day for the Marlins, facing Colorado this Friday at 7:10 PM.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo \u2013 Dominican star pitcher Sandy Alc\u00e1ntara finished 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 duel that captured the attention of the fans. Star Showdown in Spring Training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,345,1121,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-115339","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\/115339","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=115339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}