{"id":15415,"date":"2025-07-08T19:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/rd-defeats-japan-in-softball-world-cup-dominican-republic-strikes-in-canada\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T19:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:14:44","slug":"rd-defeats-japan-in-softball-world-cup-dominican-republic-strikes-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/rd-defeats-japan-in-softball-world-cup-dominican-republic-strikes-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"RD defeats Japan in Softball World Cup: Dominican Republic strikes in Canada!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominican Republic Surprises the Softball World!<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Dominican softball team began its participation in the Canadian World Championship with an epic victory, defeating Japan, the current Olympic champion, with a score of 3-2.\n\nFrancisco Nova became the hero of the match by connecting an unstoppable crucial hit in the bottom of the seventh inning, driving in the winning run and leaving the Asian power on the field.\n\nThis triumph represents the second time in history that the Dominican Republic has managed to defeat Japan in softball, a milestone that highlights the growing competitiveness of the Dominican team in the international arena.\n\nA victory for Dominican softball history!\n\nThe feat was accomplished thanks to a combination of timely hitting and a solid performance from the mound. Yan Carlos Gonz\u00e1lez and Michael Batista were key in the victory.\n\nGonz\u00e1lez pitched 6.0 quality innings, allowing only two home runs and striking out ten batters. Batista closed the game successfully, securing the victory.\n\n<ul><li>Elias Valerio hit a home run.<\/li><li>Jendry Torres Bueno stood out with a triple and a single.<\/li><li>Pablo Modesto Figuereo contributed with a double and an RBI.<\/li><li>Joel de Mota had an outstanding performance with a double.<\/li><\/ul>\n\nBy Japan, Koki Sato and Kazura Toriyama connected the only hits, both being home runs.\n\nThe next challenge for the Dominican Republic will be this Wednesday against Australia.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Republic Surprises the Softball World! The Dominican softball team began its participation in the Canadian World Championship with an epic victory, defeating Japan, the current Olympic champion, with a score of 3-2. Francisco Nova became the hero of the match by connecting an unstoppable crucial hit in the bottom of the seventh inning, driving [&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":[1467,1271,642,565],"class_list":{"0":"post-15415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nationals","7":"tag-canada","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-japan","10":"tag-softball"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15415","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=15415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}