Tournament details | |
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Country | United States |
City | Miami |
Venue(s) | LoanDepot Park |
Dates | February 1 – February 9, 2024 |
Teams | 7 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Tiburones de la Guaira (1st title) |
Runner-up | Tigres del Licey |
Third place | Federales de Chiriquí |
Fourth place | Curaçao Suns |
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.
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]
Team | Manager | Means of qualification |
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Naranjeros de Hermosillo | Juan Castro | Winners of the 2023–24 Mexican Pacific League |
Federales de Chiriquí | José Mayorga | Winners of the 2023–24 Panamanian Professional Baseball League |
Criollos de Caguas | Yadier Molina | Winners of the 2023–24 Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League |
Tigres del Licey | Gilbert Gómez | Winners of the 2023–24 Dominican Professional Baseball League |
Tiburones de La Guaira | Ozzie Guillén | Winners of the 2023–24 Venezuelan Professional Baseball League |
Gigantes de Rivas | Marvin Benard | Winners of the 2023–24 Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League |
Curaçao Suns | Hainley Statia | Winners of the 2023 Curaçao Professional Baseball League |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | RF | RA | RD | PCT | GB | Qualification |
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1 | Tiburones de La Guaira | 6 | 5 | 1 | 29 | 14 | +15 | .833 [lower-alpha 1] | — | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Federales de Chiriquí | 6 | 5 | 1 | 33 | 22 | +11 | .833 [lower-alpha 1] | — | |
3 | Tigres del Licey | 6 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 21 | −6 | .500 [lower-alpha 2] | 2 | |
4 | Curaçao Suns | 6 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 21 | −2 | .500 [lower-alpha 2] | 2 | |
5 | Criollos de Caguas | 6 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 20 | +2 | .500 [lower-alpha 2] | 2 | |
6 | Naranjeros de Hermosillo | 6 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 21 | +2 | .333 | 3 | |
7 | Gigantes de Rivas | 6 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 36 | −22 | .000 | 5 |
Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
1 | Tiburones de La Guaira | 6 | |||||||
4 | Curaçao Suns | 2 | |||||||
1 | Tiburones de La Guaira | 3 | |||||||
3 | Tigres del Licey | 0 | |||||||
2 | Federales de Chiriquí | 1 | |||||||
3 | Tigres del Licey | 4 | Third-place play-off | ||||||
2 | Federales de Chiriquí | 5 | |||||||
4 | Curaçao Suns | 4 |
Game | Date | Time | Away | Result | Home | Stadium |
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22 | February 8 | 15:00 | Tigres del Licey | 4−1 | Federales de Chiriquí | LoanDepot Park (14,265) |
23 | February 8 | 20:00 | Curaçao Suns | 2−6 | Tiburones de La Guaira | LoanDepot Park (20,459) |
Game | Date | Time | Away | Result | Home | Stadium |
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24 | February 9 | 15:00 | Curaçao Suns | 4−5 | Federales de Chiriquí | LoanDepot Park (10,958) |
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Tigres del Licey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Tiburones de La Guaira | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 | 9 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
WP: Ricardo Pinto (1-0) LP: Cesar Valdez (0-1) Attendance: 36,677 Boxscore |
The following tables do not include statistics from the knockout stage.
Statistic | Name | Total/Avg |
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Batting average* | Alexi Amarista | .474 |
Hits | 3 tied with [note 1] | 10 |
Runs | Johnny Yussef Santos | 7 |
Home runs | 5 tied with [note 2] | 2 |
Runs batted in | 2 tied with [note 3] | 8 |
Stolen bases | Hernán Pérez | 4 |
On-base percentage* | Iván Herrera | .556 |
Slugging percentage* | Johnny Yussef Santos | .833 |
OPS* | Aaron Altherr | 1.308 |
* Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per team game
Statistic | Name | Total/Avg |
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ERA | 9 tied with [note 4] | 0.00 |
Saves | Arnaldo Jose Hernandez | 3 |
Innings pitched | Angel Padron | 12.1 |
Strikeouts | 2 tied with [note 5] | 10 |
WHIP* | Anthony Vizcaya | 0.25 |
* Minimum 0.8 innings pitched per team game
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