The 2024 Caribbean Series was the 66th edition of the Caribbean Series club baseball tournament, played from February 1 to February 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 park.
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).
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.
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.
Participating teams TeamManagerMeans of qualification Naranjeros de Hermosillo Juan CastroWinners of the 2023–24 Mexican Pacific League Federales de Chiriquí José MayorgaWinners of the 2023–24 Panamanian Professional Baseball League Criollos de Caguas Yadier MolinaWinners of the 2023–24 Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League Tigres del Licey Gilbert GómezWinners of the 2023–24 Dominican Professional Baseball League Tiburones de La Guaira Ozzie GuillénWinners of the 2023–24 Venezuelan Professional Baseball League Gigantes de Rivas Marvin BenardWinners of the 2023–24 Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League Curaçao Suns Hainley StatiaWinners of the 2023 Curaçao Professional Baseball League
Preliminary round
Time zone: Time in Florida (UTC−05:00) GameDateTimeAwayResultHomeStadium1February 110:30Gigantes de Rivas 2−5 Criollos de CaguasLoanDepot Park (7,724)2February 115:30Curaçao Suns 6−5 Naranjeros de HermosilloLoanDepot Park (5,763)3February 120:30Tiburones de La Guaira 3−1 Tigres del LiceyLoanDepot Park (27,338)4February 210:30Federales de Chiriquí 7−3 Curaçao SunsLoanDepot Park (4,887)5February 215:30Tigres del Licey 5−4 Gigantes de RivasLoanDepot Park (10,710)6February 220:30Criollos de Caguas 2−0 Naranjeros de HermosilloLoanDepot Park (11,816)7February 310:30Tiburones de La Guaira 4−2 Curaçao SunsLoanDepot Park (10,512)8February 315:30Naranjeros de Hermosillo 3−4 Federales de ChiriquíLoanDepot Park (7,034)9February 320:30Tigres del Licey 5−2 Criollos de CaguasLoanDepot Park (35,972)10February 410:30Federales de Chiriquí 6−3 Gigantes de RivasLoanDepot Park (12,342)11February 415:30Criollos de Caguas 6−2 Tiburones de La GuairaLoanDepot Park (32,092)12February 420:30Naranjeros de Hermosillo 9−1 Tigres del LiceyLoanDepot Park (14,308)13February 510:30Gigantes de Rivas 3−6 Curaçao SunsLoanDepot Park (5,225)14February 515:30Tiburones de La Guaira 6−1 Naranjeros de HermosilloLoanDepot Park (9,021)15February 520:30Criollos de Caguas 7−9 Federales de ChiriquíLoanDepot Park (7,218)16February 610:30Naranjeros de Hermosillo 5−2 Gigantes de RivasLoanDepot Park (6,267)17February 615:30Curaçao Suns 0−2 Tigres del LiceyLoanDepot Park (8,761)18February 620:30Federales de Chiriquí 4−5 Tiburones de La GuairaLoanDepot Park (11,801)19February 710:30Curaçao Suns 2−0 Criollos de CaguasLoanDepot Park (6,870)20February 715:30Tigres del Licey 1−3 Federales de ChiriquíLoanDepot Park (8,817)21February 720:30Gigantes de Rivas 0−9 Tiburones de La GuairaLoanDepot Park (13,488)
Knockout stage
Semi-finals
GameDateTimeAwayResultHomeStadium22February 815:00 Tigres del Licey 4−1 Federales de ChiriquíLoanDepot Park (14,265)23February 820:00 Curaçao Suns 2−6 Tiburones de La GuairaLoanDepot Park (20,459)
Third-place play-off
GameDateTimeAwayResultHomeStadium24February 915:00 Curaçao Suns 4−5 Federales de ChiriquíLoanDepot Park (10,958)
Final
Statistical leaders
The following tables do not include statistics from the knockout stage.
Batting StatisticNameTotal/AvgBatting average* Alexi Amarista Tiburones de La Guaira .474Hits 3 tied with 10Runs Jhonny Yussef Santos Federales de Chiriquí 7Home runs 5 tied with 2Runs batted in 2 tied with 8Stolen bases Hernán Pérez Tiburones de La Guaira 4On-base percentage* Iván Herrera Federales de Chiriquí .556Slugging percentage* Jhonny Yussef Santos Federales de Chiriquí .833OPS* Aaron Altherr Naranjeros de Hermosillo 1.308 * Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per team game
Pitching StatisticNameTeamTotal/AvgERA 9 tied with 0.00Saves Arnaldo Jose Hernandez Tiburones de La Guaira 3Innings pitched Ángel Padrón Tiburones de La Guaira 12.1Strikeouts 2 tied with 10WHIP* Anthony Vizcaya Tiburones de La Guaira 0.25 * Minimum 0.8 innings pitched per team game
Awards
+ All-Tournament Team Pos. PlayerTeamSP Ángel Padrón Tiburones de La GuairaRP Jairo Asencio Tigres del LiceyC Iván Herrera Federales de Chiriquí1B Hernán Pérez Tiburones de La Guaira2B Robinson Canó Tigres del Licey3B Dawel Lugo Tigres del LiceySS Jack López Criollos de CaguasOF Aaron Altherr Naranjeros de Hermosillo Alexi Amarista Tiburones de La Guaira Wladimir Balentien Curaçao SunsDH Nelson Velázquez Criollos de CaguasMan. José Mayorga Federales de Chiriquí
References
Notes
External links Official website (Spanish)