2024 baseball tournament
The 2024 Caribbean Series was the 66th edition of the Caribbean Series club baseball tournament, played from February 1-9, 2024, at LoanDepot Park in Miami , Florida , United States . This was the first time since the 1991 series that the Caribbean Series was held outside of Latin America, as well as the first Caribbean Series that was held at a Major League Baseball ballpark.[ 1]
The series brought together the champions of seven professional baseball leagues: the four full members of the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation (Dominican Republic , Mexico , Puerto Rico and Venezuela ), plus three guests (Curaçao , Nicaragua and Panama ).[ 2]
Tiburones de la Guaira won their first championship, representing Venezuela .
Summary
On February 3, the game between the Tigres del Licey and Criollos de Caguas had an attendance of 35,972 fans; the highest attendance ever for a Caribbean Series game.
On February 7, Ángel Padrón of the Tiburones de La Guaira completed a no-hitter against Gigantes de Rivas . It was the first no-hitter since the 1952 Caribbean Series , the second ever in the tournament's history, and the first thrown by a pitcher of Hispanic origin.
On February 9, the Championship Game between Tigres and Tiburones was played in front of 36,677 fans; breaking the record from February 3rd.
A single round-robin format was used; each team faced each other once. The four teams with the best records advanced to the semifinals (1st vs. 4th and 2nd vs. 3rd). The two losers met in the 3rd place match and the two winners met in the final to decide the tournament champion.[ 3]
Participating teams
Preliminary round
Source:
[1] Rules for classification: 1) Wins; 2) Head-to-head matches; 3) Team quality balance; 4) Batting average; 5) Drawing of lots.
Notes:
^ a b Head-to-head: Tiburones 1-0; Federales 0-1
^ a b c Head-to-head: Tigres 2-0; Suns 1-1; Criollos 0-2
Time zone : Time in Florida (UTC−05:00 )
Game
Date
Time
Away
Result
Home
Stadium
1
February 1
10:30
Gigantes de Rivas 2−5 Criollos de Caguas LoanDepot Park (7,724)
2
February 1
15:30
Curaçao Suns 6−5 Naranjeros de Hermosillo
LoanDepot Park (5,763)
3
February 1
20:30
Tiburones de La Guaira 3−1 Tigres del Licey
LoanDepot Park (27,338)
4
February 2
10:30
Federales de Chiriquí 7−3 Curaçao Suns
LoanDepot Park (4,887)
5
February 2
15:30
Tigres del Licey 5−4 Gigantes de Rivas
LoanDepot Park (10,710)
6
February 2
20:30
Criollos de Caguas 2−0 Naranjeros de Hermosillo
LoanDepot Park (11,816)
7
February 3
10:30
Tiburones de La Guaira 4−2 Curaçao Suns
LoanDepot Park (10,512)
8
February 3
15:30
Naranjeros de Hermosillo 3−4 Federales de Chiriquí LoanDepot Park (7,034)
9
February 3
20:30
Tigres del Licey 5−2 Criollos de Caguas
LoanDepot Park (35,972)
10
February 4
10:30
Federales de Chiriquí 6−3 Gigantes de Rivas
LoanDepot Park (12,342)
11
February 4
15:30
Criollos de Caguas 6−2 Tiburones de La Guaira
LoanDepot Park (32,092)
12
February 4
20:30
Naranjeros de Hermosillo 9−1 Tigres del Licey
LoanDepot Park (14,308)
13
February 5
10:30
Gigantes de Rivas 3−6 Curaçao Suns LoanDepot Park (5,225)
14
February 5
15:30
Tiburones de La Guaira 6−1 Naranjeros de Hermosillo
LoanDepot Park (9,021)
15
February 5
20:30
Criollos de Caguas 7−9 Federales de Chiriquí LoanDepot Park (7,218)
16
February 6
10:30
Naranjeros de Hermosillo 5−2 Gigantes de Rivas
LoanDepot Park (6,267)
17
February 6
15:30
Curaçao Suns 0−2 Tigres del Licey LoanDepot Park (8,761)
18
February 6
20:30
Federales de Chiriquí 4−5 Tiburones de La Guaira LoanDepot Park (11,801)
19
February 7
10:30
Curaçao Suns 2−0 Criollos de Caguas
LoanDepot Park (6,870)
20
February 7
15:30
Tigres del Licey 1−3 Federales de Chiriquí LoanDepot Park (8,817)
21
February 7
20:30
Gigantes de Rivas 0−9 Tiburones de La Guaira LoanDepot Park (13,488)
Knockout stage
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Statistical leaders
The following tables do not include statistics from the knockout stage.
Batting
* Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per team game
Pitching
* Minimum 0.8 innings pitched per team game
Awards
References
Notes
^ Agustín Murillo , Emilio Bonifacio , Dawel Lugo ^ Aaron Altherr , Wladimir Balentien , Julian Rafael Ornelas, Iván Herrera ^ Aaron Altherr , Iván Herrera ^ Zach Matson, Anthony Vizcaya, Anthony Castro , Jorgan Cavanerio, Alex Claudio , Chavez Fernander, Severino González , Heitor Tokar, Ronald Ramirez, Leo Crawford
^ Raúl Valdés , Jorge Martinez
External links
Editions Participants
Full CPBC members Invited members (2025 ) Former participants
Related articles
1961 to 1969 - The Series was not held during these years following the dissolution of Cuba's professional league.
1981 - The Series was not held due to a Venezuelan player's strike.
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