{"id":19152,"date":"2025-07-27T10:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dominican-republic-crushes-panama-and-advances-to-the-semifinals-in-the-u12-baseball-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T10:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:34:06","slug":"dominican-republic-crushes-panama-and-advances-to-the-semifinals-in-the-u12-baseball-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/dominican-republic-crushes-panama-and-advances-to-the-semifinals-in-the-u12-baseball-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic crushes Panama and advances to the semifinals in the U12 Baseball World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"Tainan, Taiwan \u2013 The Dominican Republic continues its firm stride in the U12 Baseball World Cup, securing its second victory by defeating Panama with a score of 10-3. This triumph, achieved on the third day of the regular series, consolidates the Dominican team&#8217;s position in the tournament.\n\nFrom the second episode, the Dominicans took the lead and maintained control of the game, surpassing Panama at every opportunity. The Dominican offense demonstrated its power, making their dominance on the field clear.\n\nWith this result, the Dominican Republic team improves its record to 2-1. The upcoming challenges include a match against South Africa, scheduled for this Sunday at 10:30 PM (Dominican time), and a crucial encounter against the United States next Tuesday at 2:30 AM.\n\nThe victory over Panama guarantees the Dominican Republic&#8217;s qualification to the next phase of the tournament.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Career Breakdown<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second entry:<\/strong> Dominican Republic started the scoreboard with a run. Carlos Rodriguez received a walk and advanced to second base after a steal. Yosuel Kelly hit a single to left field, driving in Rodriguez and putting the Dominican Republic in the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n<strong>Third inning:<\/strong> Elvin Mercedes started with a fly ball to left field. Erick Claudio hit a double, followed by a walk to Luis Manuel Parra and another to Carlos Rodr\u00edguez, loading the bases. Marvin Rodr\u00edguez hit a single, driving in two runs and extending the lead.\n\n<strong>Fourth inning:<\/strong> Luis Manuel Parra hit a three-run home run, scoring Elvin Mercedes and Erick Claudio. Panama responded with two runs, but the Dominican Republic maintained control.\n\n<strong>Fifth inning:<\/strong> Jadiel Zayas hit a two-run home run, and Elvin Mercedes scored on an error by the Panamanian shortstop, adding more runs for the Dominican Republic.\n\n<strong>Sixth inning:<\/strong> Carlos Rodr\u00edguez scored the tenth Dominican run. Panama responded with a home run by Yassith Concepci\u00f3n, but it was not enough to change the result.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured Players<\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>Dominican Offensive:<\/strong><\/p>\n\nElvin Mercedes: 3-1, with two runs scored.\n\n<strong>On the pitching:<\/strong> Yostin G\u00f3mez opened for the Dominican Republic, working three and two-thirds innings. Jadiel Zayas pitched one and a third innings, taking the victory. Jean Carlos Cruz closed the game with three consecutive strikeouts.\n\nDespite his good offensive performance, Concepcion was the losing pitcher. He worked three innings, allowed three runs and four hits.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tainan, Taiwan \u2013 The Dominican Republic continues its firm stride in the U12 Baseball World Cup, securing its second victory by defeating Panama with a score of 10-3. This triumph, achieved on the third day of the regular series, consolidates the Dominican team&#8217;s position in the tournament. From the second episode, the Dominicans took the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,1271,4171,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-19152","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-panama","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19152","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=19152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}