{"id":501694,"date":"2026-03-06T23:52:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/caminero-rodriguez-and-cruzs-home-runs-lead-dominican-republic-to-a-12-3-victory-over-nicaragua\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T23:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:52:49","slug":"caminero-rodriguez-and-cruzs-home-runs-lead-dominican-republic-to-a-12-3-victory-over-nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/caminero-rodriguez-and-cruzs-home-runs-lead-dominican-republic-to-a-12-3-victory-over-nicaragua\/","title":{"rendered":"Caminero, Rodr\u00edguez, and Cruz&#8217;s Home Runs Lead Dominican Republic to a 12-3 Victory Over Nicaragua"},"content":{"rendered":"MIAMI. \u2013 The Dominican Republic team debuted with authority in the 2026 World Baseball Classic by defeating Nicaragua 12-3 on Friday night at loanDepot park in Miami, backed by a powerful offense that included home runs by Junior Caminero, Julio Rodr\u00edguez, and Oneil Cruz.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/cristopher-sanchez-logra-inning-historico-de-cuatro-ponches-en-el-clasico-mundial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cristopher S\u00e1nchez achieves historic inning of four strikeouts in the World Baseball Classic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nBefore an audience of 35,127 fans, the Dominican team reacted after a complicated start and ended up imposing their offensive power with 14 hits.\n\nThe key moment of the game came in the sixth inning when Caminero hit a home run that broke a tie at three runs and put the Quisqueyans ahead 5-3. Later, in the eighth inning, Rodriguez hit a long home run to left field and, immediately after, Cruz punished another home run to right field with two runners on base to extend the lead to 10-3.\n\nThe Dominican offense continued to produce and a double by Vladimir Guerrero Jr. further widened the gap, while Rodriguez also drove in the twelfth run of the game.\n\nThe relief pitching was key to securing the victory. The Dominican relievers worked seven innings without allowing runs, completely stopping the Nicaraguan offense after the first innings of the game.\n\nWith the victory, the Dominican Republic starts its participation in the tournament on the right foot. The team will rest this Saturday and will return to action on Sunday at noon when they face the Netherlands in their second group match.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI. \u2013 The Dominican Republic team debuted with authority in the 2026 World Baseball Classic by defeating Nicaragua 12-3 on Friday night at loanDepot park in Miami, backed by a powerful offense that included home runs by Junior Caminero, Julio Rodr\u00edguez, and Oneil Cruz. You may be interested in: Cristopher S\u00e1nchez achieves historic inning of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26vQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501694","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}