{"id":159860,"date":"2021-06-15T06:09:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T10:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=159860"},"modified":"2021-06-15T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:13:39","slug":"159860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/06\/15\/159860\/","title":{"rendered":"DR to play game one in baseball Olympic qualifier on 22 June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WBSC-Baseball-Americas-Qualifier-Official-Website-e1622560900560.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159125\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s up for grabs is the last slot to play in the Tokyo Olympics baseball tournament. Venezuela (ranked 8th), the Dominican Republic (ranked 10th) and the Netherlands (ranked 9th) will battle it out after Australia declined from participating. The winner will join Japan, Israel, Korea, Mexico and USA, teams that have already qualified for the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Baseball Softball Confederation announced the schedule on 14 June 2021. The games will be played from 22-26 June in Puebla, Mexico at the Estadio de B\u00e9isbol Hermanos Serd\u00e1n, home to the Pericos de Puebla team of the Mexican Baseball League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tournament schedule is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, 22 June: 5pm: DR vs Venezuela<br>Wednesday, 23 June 5pm: Venezuela vs. Netherlands<br>Thursday, 24 June 5pm: Netherlands vs. DR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, 25 June 5pm: Semifinal 3rd vs 2nd<br>Saturday, 26 June 1pm: Semifinal winner vs 1st place of Round Robin Game 4 winner vs. semifinal 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, 27 June All Day: Rained out games (if necessary)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/olympicbaseballqualifier.wbsc.org\/en\/2021\/e-2021-final-baseball-olympic-qualifier\/news\/final-olympic-baseball-qualifier-to-run-22-26-june-in-puebla-mexico\">Olympic Baseball Qualifier <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/olympicbaseballqualifier.wbsc.org\/en\/2021\/e-2021-final-baseball-olympic-qualifier\/news\/schedule-unveiled-for-wbsc-baseball-final-qualifier-to-tokyo-olympics\">Olympic Baseball Qualifier<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnuevodiario.com.do\/dominicana-y-venezuela-inauguraran-clasificatorio-final-de-beisbol-para-tokio\/\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 June 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s up for grabs is the last slot to play in the Tokyo Olympics baseball tournament. Venezuela (ranked 8th), the Dominican Republic (ranked 10th) and the Netherlands (ranked 9th) will battle it out after Australia declined from participating. The winner will join Japan, Israel, Korea, Mexico and USA, teams that have already qualified for the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/06\/15\/159860\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159860"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159939,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159860\/revisions\/159939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}