The 2024 Caribbean Series was the 66th edition of the
Caribbean Series club baseball tournament, played from February 1-9, 2024, at
LoanDepot Park
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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.
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
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,
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
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against
Gigantes de Rivas
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. It was the first no-hitter since the
1952 Caribbean Series
The fourth edition of the Caribbean Series (''Serie del Caribe'') was played in 1952. It was held from February 20 through February 26, featuring the champion baseball teams of Cuba, Leones del Habana; Panama, Carta Vieja Yankees; Puerto Rico, Se ...
, 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
Preliminary round
:
Time zone: Time in Florida
Most of Florida is in the Eastern Time Zone ( UTC−05:00, DST UTC−04:00).
The following parts of the Florida panhandle in northwest Florida are in the Central Time Zone ( UTC−06:00, DST UTC−05:00):
* Bay County, 2010 population 168,852
...
( UTC−05:00)
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
External links
Official website(Spanish)
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2024
Predicted and scheduled events
* January 1
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