I dunno but I guarantee you if I hit a ball out of the DR's version of AT&T park I'd tell people I hit it in the ocean.
if we'd just call all water The Ocean this would be solved
I get a different kind of excitement tho from an ocean > vs. Lake, pond, etc. If the water is on the outside of the country/continent and it's infested with sharks, seals, dolphins, etc. It's the mother rough ridin' ocean. If it's infested with used condoms, beer bottles, smelly catfish, it's the lake. If you can walk around it in less than a day, it's a pond