{"id":475742,"date":"2025-07-21T13:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/all-star-game-between-puerto-rico-and-rd-will-be-played-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:37:58","slug":"all-star-game-between-puerto-rico-and-rd-will-be-played-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/all-star-game-between-puerto-rico-and-rd-will-be-played-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Star Game between Puerto Rico and RD will be played in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<strong>New York.<\/strong> \u2013 The <strong>All-Star Game between the Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic leagues<\/strong> will be held for the first time at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, on <strong>November 15, 2025<\/strong>.\n\nThe announcement was confirmed by <strong>Yamil Ben\u00edtez<\/strong>, president of the Puerto Rico Players Association, who highlighted the importance of the event for the Puerto Rican and Dominican communities residing in the United States.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are very excited about this opportunity to bring this rivalry to the Mets&#8217; stadium. We are going to present a first-class show for the delight of the Puerto Ricans and Dominicans who live in New York,\u201d said Ben\u00edtez.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nCiti Field will be the stage where this historic confrontation between the most outstanding figures of the <strong>Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League (LBPRC)<\/strong> and the <strong>Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM)<\/strong> will be revived, in a day that promises to overflow with Caribbean passion and pride.\n\nBen\u00edtez also revealed that the proposal was presented directly to the Mets, who <strong>agreed to be official promoters of the game<\/strong>. In addition, it was announced that the event will be dedicated to the star Dominican second baseman <strong>Robinson Can\u00f3<\/strong>, in recognition of his career in Major League Baseball and his legacy in the region.\n\nFor her part, <strong>Alexandra Cohen<\/strong>, wife of the Mets owner and of Puerto Rican origin, assured that the organization is committed to highlighting Latin culture.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are very excited to host this celebration of Caribbean baseball at Citi Field. The energy will be amazing. Queens will vibrate to celebrate Latino pride,\u201d Cohen said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nTickets for the anticipated game will be available starting this <strong>Thursday, July 24<\/strong> on the official website <strong>mets.com\/dr-pr<\/strong>.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York. \u2013 The All-Star Game between the Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic leagues will be held for the first time at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, on November 15, 2025. The announcement was confirmed by Yamil Ben\u00edtez, president of the Puerto Rico Players Association, who highlighted the importance of the event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":475743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,9098,40230],"class_list":["post-475742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-lidom","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1ZLg","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/ballpark_interior_040816_ml_046_44076e87-e925-d461-fb20ca2636d99f30.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/ballpark_interior_040816_ml_046_44076e87-e925-d461-fb20ca2636d99f30.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}