As they prepared for their first game in this year’s World Baseball Classic, Juan Soto promised that the Dominican Republic team was going to have fun. “And we’re going to be loud,” Fernando Tatis Jr.

Cristopher Sánchez set a WBC record with four strikeouts in an inning as the Dominican Republic beat Nicaragua 12-3.

Junior Caminero hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the sixth inning as the Dominican Republic beat Nicaragua before a crowd of 35,127 to conclude the first day of Pool D at Miami's loanDepot Park.

The Dominican Republic's Junior Caminero is being attacked for 'destroying' baseball after his home run celebration went viral.