{"id":613617,"date":"2026-03-08T17:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/613617\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T17:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:47:29","slug":"vladimir-guerrero-jr-homers-at-world-baseball-classic-for-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/613617\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homers at World Baseball Classic for Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/vladimir-guerrero-jr\/920245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/vladimir-guerrero-jr\/920245\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a> hit a towering two-run home run for the Dominican Republic on Sunday afternoon in their World Baseball Classic game against the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With the Dominican leading 2-1 in the third, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> slugger got a hanging slider from right-hander Eric Mendez and crushed it into the left field seats just inside the foul pole to extend the lead to 4-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Guerrero joyfully rounded the bases and was met by his Dominican teammates outside the dugout, where he put on the team\u2019s home run jacket in a home run celebration reminiscent of the Blue Jays\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The blast came after Guerrero got the Dominican Republic on the board in the first inning with an RBI single.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 26-year-old was 1-for-4 with three RBIs in his country\u2019s 12-3 tournament-opening victory over Nicaragua on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Guerrero had three hits in nine at-bats with the Blue Jays in spring training before heading to the WBC. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After Sunday\u2019s game against the Netherlands, the Dominican Republic will be back in action on Monday afternoon against Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a towering two-run home run for the Dominican Republic on Sunday afternoon in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[30173,5,377,2554,4,282,70,46737,2553,77821],"class_list":["post-613617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-blue-jays","tag-apple-news","tag-baseball","tag-blue-jays","tag-bluejays","tag-mlb","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238","tag-torontobluejays","tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-920245"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116194813454135403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}