{"id":615992,"date":"2026-03-10T02:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/615992\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T02:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:23:15","slug":"sandy-alcantara-to-give-it-his-all-in-rematch-vs-venezuela-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/615992\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Alcantara to give it his all in rematch vs. Venezuela – Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSandy Alcantara<\/a> will take the mound on Wednesday for the Dominican Republic against Venezuela. Although both the Dominican Republic and Venezuela have already clinched spots in the quarterfinal round of the World Baseball Classic, Wednesday\u2019s matchup will determine the winner of Pool D and who finishes in second place. The runner-up will face Shohei Ohtani<\/a> and Team Japan on Saturday at 9:00 p.m. ET.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Monday, Alcantara met with national media ahead of his start. It will mark his second career World Baseball Classic start\u2014both coming against Venezuela. In 2023, the matchup served as the tournament\u2019s opening game, but this time the stakes are higher with seeding implications.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn that 2023 outing, Alcantara pitched 3 \u2154 innings, allowing three runs on five hits\u2014including one home run\u2014while issuing three walks and striking out two.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a revenge game because this is a short tournament,\u201d Alcantara said. \u201cThis tournament is about winning or losing. We gave everything we had and things didn\u2019t go the way we wanted, but on Wednesday we\u2019ll have the opportunity to give it our all. I just need to go out there and battle from the first pitch on and upwards.”\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLast season marked the 30-year-old\u2019s first year back after undergoing Tommy John surgery. He posted a 5.36 ERA, 4.28 FIP, and 7.32 K\/9 across 174 \u2154 innings pitched. However, his second half was much more Sandy-like, as he recorded a 3.33 ERA over his final 13 starts. The Dominican Republic will hope Alcantara can replicate that solid second half on Wednesday.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThrough two spring training starts this year, Alcantara has allowed three runs across four innings, which all came in his first outing. In his most recent tune-up before joining the Dominican squad, he tossed three perfect innings while striking out four.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThis will be the biggest pool game of the World Baseball Classic, and it’s already sold out in Miami. In 2023, the Dominican Republic fell to Venezuela by a final score of 5-1. Many fans have called this a rivalry and plenty of storylines are being created, but Alcantara does not see it that way.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe fans can go fight each other as much as they’d like, and there will always be controversies about how players get along with each other and whether there is good sportsmanship,\u201d Alcantara said. \u201cOn our end, we\u2019re good. All this talk about a revenge game\u2014I think there\u2019s a lot of talk on social media, with Venezuelan fans saying things to Dominican fans and vice versa. Let them say what they want. We are here to compete and represent our country, which is what we want to do the most.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAs previously noted, this will mark the second time Alcantara pitches not only in the World Baseball Classic, but against Venezuela in this environment that held\u00a035,890 fans in 2023. Alcantara referred to the saying, “the past is the past” and that they are not interested in that game when it comes to his 2023 outing against Venezuela.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis year we are focused on one goal, which is to win,\u201d Alcantara said. \u201cWe have good vibes, and every guy on this team is helping in a positive way. (Juan) Soto, (Manny) Machado, (Vladimir) Guerrero Jr., and (Junior) Caminero are all extremely excited and emotional. When it comes to the pitching, we\u2019re doing a great job. The focus for us this year is to do better than the last Classic, and I think everything will be possible if we put God ahead of everything.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAlong with Alcantara, his Marlins teammate Agust\u00edn Ram\u00edrez is also on the Dominican Republic roster, but it will be New York Yankees catcher Austin Wells who will be catching Alcantara on Wednesday. Ramirez’s lone start of the World Baseball Classic may very well have been Monday’s game against Israel where he went 1-for-4 with an RBI.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t“Wells will play against Venezuela,” Dominican Republic manager Albert Pujols told reporters on Monday. “They all knew that was going to be the case and that is how it was communicated. The plan for Ram\u00edrez was to have him start this game and he knew he was going to start this game. Wells could’ve gone 4-4 with four home runs, and he still would’ve had the day off today.”\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWho Alcantara will go toe-to-toe with is still uncertain, but Eduardo Rodriguez<\/a> has still yet to pitch, so he can be a potential option for manager Omar Lopez<\/a>‘s club. First pitch is scheduled for 8:00 pm and the game can be streamed on FS1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sandy Alcantara will take the mound on Wednesday for the Dominican Republic against Venezuela. Although both the Dominican…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,1888,1816,778,58,4171,4,3480,8814,4820],"class_list":{"0":"post-615992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dominican-republic","10":"tag-marlins","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-marlins","13":"tag-miamimarlins","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-sandy-alcantara","16":"tag-venezuela","17":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116202504427518542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615992","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=615992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}