{"id":511800,"date":"2026-03-08T21:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511800\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T21:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:10:11","slug":"dominican-republic-hits-four-hrs-in-wbc-rout-of-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511800\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic hits four HRs in WBC rout of Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI — Juan Soto<\/a>, Vladimir Guerrero Jr<\/a>., Junior Caminero<\/a> and Austin Wells<\/a> homered as the Dominican Republic routed the Netherlands 12-1 in seven innings Sunday to remain unbeaten in Group D play at the World Baseball Classic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The game ended under the mercy rule when Soto’s two-run blast in the bottom of the seventh provided a double-digit advantage for the Dominican Republic. It was the third game of the tournament to end under the mercy rule.<\/p>\n

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The Dominican Republic has outscored its opponents 24-4 through two games at loanDepot Park.<\/p>\n

Fernando Tatis Jr<\/a>. and Ketel Marte<\/a> had three walks each for the Dominicans. Starter Luis Severino<\/a> allowed one run and three hits while striking out five over four innings.<\/p>\n

The Dominicans broke it open with a six-run fifth. Caminero hit a three-run homer and Wells added a two-run blast. Marte’s sacrifice fly made it 10-1.<\/p>\n

Caminero’s second homer of the tournament had an exit velocity of 115.8 mph.<\/p>\n

The Dominican Republic struck quickly with a two-run first against Arij Fransen, who took the loss. Guerrero hit an RBI single and Marte scored from third on a throwing error by shortstop Xander Bogaerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Didi Gregorius<\/a> narrowed the deficit for the Netherlands (1-2) with his solo homer in the second before Guerrero’s two-run drive in the third made it 4-1.<\/p>\n

Dominican Republic first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. just drops his bat after slugging a two-run home run against the Netherlands during Sunday’s WBC game in Miami.\u00a0Sam Navarro-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Cuba 7, Colombia 4: In San Juan, Ariel Martinez and Erisbel Arruebarrena homered in a four-run first inning, helping Cuba improve to 2-0 in Group A.<\/p>\n

Yiddi Cappe added a big two-run triple in the sixth. Yoelkis Guibert had two of Cuba’s eight hits, and Denny Larrondo pitched two innings for the win at Puerto Rico’s Hiram Bithorn Stadium.<\/p>\n

Cuba next plays Puerto Rico on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Tito Polo drove in two runs for winless Colombia, which is 2-for-28 with runners in scoring position — with 29 runners left on base — over three games heading into Monday’s matchup vs. Panama. Gio Urshela had a run-scoring single.<\/p>\n

Martinez hit a three-run shot to right on a 2-1 fastball from Luis Pati\u00f1o. Roel Santos walked and Yoan Moncada<\/a> was hit by a pitch before Martinez’s opposite-field drive. Arruebarrena made it 4-1 with a one-out solo shot, chasing Pati\u00f1o.<\/p>\n

Raidel Martinez handled the ninth for his second save for Cuba.<\/p>\n

Italy 7, Britain 4: In Houston, Andrew Fischer homered and drove in two runs, and J.J. D’Orazio also went deep to lead Italy over Britain 7-4 in Pool B play.<\/p>\n

Italy improved to 2-0, while Britain was eliminated after falling to 0-3.<\/p>\n

Fischer cut the lead to 2-1 when he opened the third inning with a home run for Italy. D’Orazio followed with his home run to right center field to tie it.<\/p>\n

Tied 2-2 in the fourth, Zach Dezenzo<\/a> doubled and scored on a two-out RBI single by Fischer. D’Orazio reached on an error before an RBI double by Miles Mastrobuoni<\/a> and a run-scoring single by Dante Nori pushed the lead to 5-2.<\/p>\n

Dezenzo walked with one out in the fifth and scored on a triple by Sam Antonacci. A throwing error by Jazz Chisholm Jr<\/a>. on the play allowed Antonacci to score to put Italy up 7-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI — Juan Soto, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Junior Caminero and Austin Wells homered as the Dominican Republic routed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-511800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}