{"id":169922,"date":"2026-10-14T07:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/freddy-peralta-emulates-pedro-martinez-in-historic-postseason-feat\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:59:20","slug":"freddy-peralta-emulates-pedro-martinez-in-historic-postseason-feat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/freddy-peralta-emulates-pedro-martinez-in-historic-postseason-feat\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddy Peralta emulates Pedro Mart\u00ednez in historic postseason feat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Freddy Peralta makes history with the Rays in the Championship Series<\/h2>\n\n<p>Dominican pitcher Freddy Peralta has left an indelible mark on the Major League postseason. With a masterful six-inning shutout performance, the right-hander was the key piece in the Tampa Bay Rays&#8217; 3-1 victory over the Cleveland Guardians, tying the American League Championship Series at one win apiece.<\/p>\n\n<p>Peralta joined an elite group of Dominican pitchers by recording six scoreless innings in this decisive stage. Only the immortal Pedro Mart\u00ednez and Edinson V\u00f3lquez had achieved a similar feat in the history of the Championship Series for a pitcher born in Quisqueya.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Absolute dominance from the mound<\/h3>\n\n<p>During his time on the mound, the Dominican allowed just four hits, issued two walks, and struck out six opponents. His performance was not only effective but imposing, reaching a maximum velocity of 99.4 miles per hour with his fastball, the highest figure in his entire professional career.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">I think I was obviously able to put up a lot of zeros, but I was also able to avoid a lot of damage, because they were putting together some really good at-bats. I like these kinds of games. As a Dominican pitcher, I enjoy this. I grew up watching these games in the Dominican Republic and I feel like I carry that inside me.<\/p>\n<cite>Freddy Peralta, Tampa Bay Rays pitcher<\/cite>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Unstoppable streak for Tampa Bay<\/h3>\n\n<p>The moment Peralta is going through is exceptional. Since August 26, the Rays have emerged victorious in each of his eight starts. During this span, the pitcher has recorded a 0.81 ERA, allowing only four runs in 44.2 innings of work.<\/p>\n\n<p>Rays manager Kevin Cash highlighted the importance of Peralta&#8217;s arm strength to neutralize the opposing offense:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When you have a fastball with that velocity, it is a very difficult pitch to hit with authority.<\/li><li>The defensive support and execution in critical moments allowed them to capitalize on Cleveland&#8217;s errors in the fourth inning.<\/li><li>The victory was sealed by the bullpen, with Bryan Baker securing the save to maintain the lead.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>With the series tied, the Rays now travel to Cleveland&#8217;s Progressive Field for the third game. The Tampa Bay team arrives with high morale, boosted by the confidence that comes from having a starting pitcher in such dominant form as the one Freddy Peralta has shown.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freddy Peralta makes history with the Rays in the Championship Series Dominican pitcher Freddy Peralta has left an indelible mark on the Major League postseason. With a masterful six-inning shutout performance, the right-hander was the key piece in the Tampa Bay Rays&#8217; 3-1 victory over the Cleveland Guardians, tying the American League Championship Series at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[88,2008,344,1430],"class_list":{"0":"post-169922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-freddy-peralta","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-rays"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169922","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=169922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}