2024 Caribbean Series

2024 Caribbean Series
Tournament details
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
	← 2023 2025 →

Last updated November 03, 2024

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]

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.

Tournament format

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

Team	Manager	Means of qualification
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

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
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

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) Wins; 2) Head-to-head matches; 3) Team quality balance; 4) Batting average; 5) Drawing of lots.
Notes:

1 2 Head-to-head: Tiburones 1-0; Federales 0-1
1 2 3 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			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

Semi-finals

Game	Date	Time	Away	Result	Home	Stadium
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)

Third-place play-off

Game	Date	Time	Away	Result	Home	Stadium
24	February 9	15:00	Curaçao Suns	4−5	Federales de Chiriquí	LoanDepot Park (10,958)

Final

Game 25 February 9, 2024 20:00 at LoanDepot Park in Miami, Florida
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
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

Statistical leaders

The following tables do not include statistics from the knockout stage.

Batting

Statistic	Name	Total/Avg
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

Pitching

Statistic	Name	Total/Avg
ERA	9 tied with^{[note 4]}	0.00
Saves	Arnaldo Jose Hernandez	3
Innings pitched	Ángel Padrón	12.1
Strikeouts	2 tied with^{[note 5]}	10
WHIP*	Anthony Vizcaya	0.25

* Minimum 0.8 innings pitched per team game

Awards

All-Tournament Team ^[4]
Pos.	Player
SP	Ángel Padrón
RP	Jairo Asencio
C	Iván Herrera
1B	Hernán Pérez
2B	Robinson Canó
3B	Dawel Lugo
SS	Jack López
OF	Aaron Altherr Alexi Amarista Wladimir Balentien
DH	Nelson Velázquez
Man.	José Mayorga

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References

↑ De Nicola, Christina (January 29, 2022). "2024 Caribbean Series coming to loanDepot park". MLB.com. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
↑ Enrique Rojas (July 24, 2023). "¿Por qué Colombia se quedó fuera de Serie Caribe 2024?". ESPN Deportes (in Spanish).
↑ Caribe, Confederación de Béisbol Profesional del. "Calendario Serie del Caribe". Confederación de Béisbol Profesional del Caribe. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
↑ "Así quedó el Equipo Todos Estrellas de la Serie del Caribe 2024". MLB.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 February 2024.

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

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[1] De Nicola, Christina (January 29, 2022). "2024 Caribbean Series coming to loanDepot park". MLB.com. Retrieved February 13, 2023.

[2] Enrique Rojas (July 24, 2023). "¿Por qué Colombia se quedó fuera de Serie Caribe 2024?". ESPN Deportes (in Spanish).

[3] Caribe, Confederación de Béisbol Profesional del. "Calendario Serie del Caribe". Confederación de Béisbol Profesional del Caribe. Retrieved 2023-12-06.

[11] "Así quedó el Equipo Todos Estrellas de la Serie del Caribe 2024". MLB.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 February 2024.

[1st-6] Agustín Murillo, Emilio Bonifacio, Dawel Lugo

[second-7] Aaron Altherr, Wladimir Balentien, Julian Rafael Ornelas, Iván Herrera

[third-8] Aaron Altherr, Iván Herrera

[ERA-9] Zach Matson, Anthony Vizcaya, Anthony Castro, Jorgan Cavanerio, Alex Claudio, Chavez Fernander, Severino González, Heitor Tokar, Ronald Ramirez, Leo Crawford

[2nd-10] Raúl Valdés, Jorge Martinez

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