Santo Domingo.- The general manager of the Dominican baseball team for the “XXV Central American and Caribbean Games, Santo Domingo 2026”, Luis Polonia Jr., announced the call to practice for this Sunday, June 21, at the IPL Academy facilities, located in El Toro de San Antonio de Guerra in Santo Domingo Este.
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The call for practice will be starting at 10:00 in the morning next Sunday at the national teams’ home, IPLA Academy, where a large group of professionals is expected who are willing to represent the national colors and, on home soil, take home the gold medal of the 2026 Central American Games.
The 25th version of the games will be from June 24th and will end on August 8th, but the baseball competitions are scheduled from July 31st to August 7th; the official calendar will be released in the coming days.
The players called up are catchers Pedro Severino, Randy Florentino, Edward Uceta, Deivi Grullón, and Bryan Hernández.
Anthony García, Kelvin “Lolo” Sánchez, Bladimir Restituyo, Cristopher Familia, Jesús Martínez, Sabriel Polanco, Diego Hernández, Aneury Tavarez, Inmanol Varga, Starlin Javier and Bryan González are the outfielders who will be present; also present will be the infielders Michael De León, Alfredo Reyes, Yamaico Navarro, Isaac De León, Irving Ortega, Bryan Hernández, José King, Geury Estévez, Omar Meregildo, Edwin Espinal, Luis Chevalier, Rafael Morel and Junior Sanquintín.
In addition to the pitchers who said yes to this first call, Enny Romero (LHP), Sammy Tavarez (RHP), Carlos Belén (RHP), Carlos Calderón (RHP), Dionys Rodríguez (RHP), Armando Vásquez (LHP), William Ramírez (RHP), Bryaner Sánchez (RHP), Diogenes Almengó (RHP), Edwin Adón (RHP), Efralin De León (LHP), Engel García (RHP), Feliz Ramírez (RHP) and José Acosta (RHP).
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Also present will be Lisalverto Bonilla (RHP), Olvis Parra (RHP), Ramón Henríquez (RHP), Wilker Reyes (LHP), Yenfri Sosa (LHP), Geury Gervacio (LHP), Maxuel Hernández (RHP), Luis David Reyes (RHP), Benjamín Arias (RHP), Junior Piña (RHP), Juan Méndez (RHP), Leonardo Rodríguez (RHP), Jerson Ramírez (RHP), and Jorge Geraldo (RHP).
For Santo Domingo 2026, the baseball teams participating will be Puerto Rico, Mexico, Curacao, Panama, Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and the hosts, the Dominican Republic.
In the history of the Central American and Caribbean Games, Dominican baseball has reached the podium 11 times, with three golds, four silvers, and four bronze medals, thus remaining in second place in the medal table, surpassed only by Cuba with 19 medals in total.
