{"id":16939,"date":"2025-07-17T20:32:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/summer-national-baseball-league-season-starts-with-santiago\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T20:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:32:57","slug":"summer-national-baseball-league-season-starts-with-santiago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/summer-national-baseball-league-season-starts-with-santiago\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer National Baseball League: Season starts with Santiago!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dominican Summer Baseball League Kicks Off Its Season with New Excitement<\/h2>\n\nMoca, Espaillat province &#8211; The Dominican Republic&#8217;s Summer National Baseball League is preparing for the start of its sixteenth tournament this Friday, July 18. The competition will feature the participation of six teams, including a new addition that promises to add even more excitement to the championship.\n\nThe tournament will kick off with an exciting opening match between the current champions, the Granjeros de Moca, and the Atl\u00e9ticos de Puerto Plata. The match will take place at the Jos\u00e9 Brice\u00f1o stadium in the Bride of the Atlantic, starting at 6:00 PM.\n\nThe regular season will consist of 20 matches per team, extending until August 17th. One of the most outstanding novelties of this season will be the celebration of the All-Star Game, scheduled for Friday, August 23rd in Puerto Plata.\n\nThe teams that will compete in this edition are: Granjeros de Moca, Bravos de La Vega, Atl\u00e9ticos de Puerto Plata, Arroceros de San Francisco de Macor\u00eds, Mineros de Bonao and the debutants Reales de Santiago de los Caballeros.\n\nAfter the regular season, the top four teams will advance to the Round Robin, where they will face each other in six matches per team. From this stage, the two finalist teams will emerge to play a best-of-seven series.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>This will be the definitive launch tournament for our league.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Juan N\u00fa\u00f1ez, president of the Summer National Baseball League<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nJuan N\u00fa\u00f1ez, president of the National Summer Baseball League and also president of the Dominican Baseball Federation (FEDOM), expressed his optimism for this new edition. He highlighted the incorporation of new structures, a competitive calendar, and the inclusion of the Reales de Santiago de los Caballeros, which will bring dynamism and expansion to the circuit.\n\nThe Moca Farmers, based in Espaillat province, have been a dominant team in the recent history of the tournament, winning 11 of the 15 editions, including six consecutive championships.\n\nN\u00fa\u00f1ez reaffirmed the league&#8217;s commitment to strengthening baseball at the national level, serving as an essential platform for the development of players, coaches, and the communities that live the passion for the king of sports.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Summer Baseball League Kicks Off Its Season with New Excitement Moca, Espaillat province &#8211; The Dominican Republic&#8217;s Summer National Baseball League is preparing for the start of its sixteenth tournament this Friday, July 18. The competition will feature the participation of six teams, including a new addition that promises to add even more excitement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,1271,349,941],"class_list":{"0":"post-16939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dominican-republic","10":"tag-teams","11":"tag-tournament"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939","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=16939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}