{"id":134281,"date":"2026-08-17T04:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dominican-republic-to-the-caribbean-kids-series-final-with-a-historic-no-hitter\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T04:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:58:35","slug":"dominican-republic-to-the-caribbean-kids-series-final-with-a-historic-no-hitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/dominican-republic-to-the-caribbean-kids-series-final-with-a-historic-no-hitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic to the Caribbean Kids Series final with a historic no-hitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominican Republic seals its spot in the Kids Caribbean Series final with a historic no-hitter<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic team achieved a memorable performance in the III Caribbean Kids Series, securing their ticket to the grand final after shutting out the Tomateros de Culiac\u00e1n, representatives of Mexico Red, 7-0. The victory was cemented by a gem of combined pitching that left the opposing offense without answers.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Absolute dominance from the mound<\/h3>\n\n<p>Right-hander Yemmy Marrero was the main architect of this feat, pitching 4.2 innings of total dominance. Marrero kept the Mexican batters at bay without allowing hits or runs, while also recording six strikeouts before reaching the regulatory limit of 70 pitches. With this performance, the pitcher accumulates an impressive streak of 9.2 consecutive innings without allowing a hit in the tournament.<\/p>\n\n<p>The responsibility of closing the game fell to Isaac Brito, who came in as a reliever to retire the last batter and complete the third no-hitter in the history of this children&#8217;s tournament, this being the second one achieved in a combined manner.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">The mound performance by Marrero and Brito was decisive in silencing a Mexican offense that could not find a way to decipher the Dominican pitches in a direct elimination game.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hard-hitting offensive<\/h3>\n\n<p>The Quisqueyan attack began to take shape in the third inning, when Jeison Calca\u00f1o got on base and scored after a timely double by Yohandry P\u00e9rez. The latter, taking advantage of a defensive error, extended the initial lead to 2-0.<\/p>\n\n<p>The match was decided in the fifth inning with a decisive five-run rally:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Yohandry P\u00e9rez hit a two-run home run.<\/li><li>Yemmy Marrero contributed with a sacrifice fly.<\/li><li>Germ\u00e1n Paulino sealed the score with a two-run homer, adding his fourth home run of the competition.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Heading to the championship<\/h3>\n\n<p>With this resounding result, the Dominican representatives secure their place in the battle for the title of the III Caribbean Kids Series. The team is waiting to find out their opponent in the final, which will emerge from the matchup between the Federales de Chiriqu\u00ed of Panama and the Jaguares de Nayarit of Mexico Green.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Republic seals its spot in the Kids Caribbean Series final with a historic no-hitter The Dominican Republic team achieved a memorable performance in the III Caribbean Kids Series, securing their ticket to the grand final after shutting out the Tomateros de Culiac\u00e1n, representatives of Mexico Red, 7-0. The victory was cemented by a gem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[88,2688,1271,770],"class_list":{"0":"post-134281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-caribbean-series","10":"tag-dominican-republic","11":"tag-no-hitter"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134281","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=134281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}