{"id":169115,"date":"2021-11-25T08:33:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T12:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=169115"},"modified":"2021-11-25T08:50:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T12:50:57","slug":"david-ortiz-named-to-caribbean-series-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/11\/25\/david-ortiz-named-to-caribbean-series-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ortiz named to Caribbean Series Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/David-Ortiz-Pabellon-Fama-Diario-Libre-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169109\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/David-Ortiz-Pabellon-Fama-Diario-Libre-1.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/David-Ortiz-Pabellon-Fama-Diario-Libre-1-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Legendary designated batter and first base of the Leones del Escogido, David Ortiz became the first Dominican baseball player to be elected to be part of the Caribbean Series Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony is set for 2 February 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ortiz played with the Escogido Lions and also was chosen to bolster the Licey and Aguilas Cibae\u00f1as when these teams represented the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean Series from 1999-2004. Ortiz received 14 of the 15 votes of the members of the jury that is made up of the sportswriters of the leagues that participate in the Caribbean Series \u2013 Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Caribbean Series, Ortiz played 32 games and had 121 turns at bat. He hit 42 hits, 12 doubles, five home runs, 29 RBIs and an average of .355.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 Dominican baseball players have been inducted to the Caribbean Series Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Ortiz was named a candidate to enter the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/deportes\/beisbol\/david-ortiz-en-pabellon-fama-serie-del-caribe-BC30108292\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 November 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary designated batter and first base of the Leones del Escogido, David Ortiz became the first Dominican baseball player to be elected to be part of the Caribbean Series Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony is set for 2 February 2021. Ortiz played with the Escogido Lions and also was chosen to bolster the Licey &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/11\/25\/david-ortiz-named-to-caribbean-series-hall-of-fame\/\" 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\/169115"}],"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=169115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169150,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169115\/revisions\/169150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}