The 2024 Mexican League season is the 99th season in the history of the baseball Mexican League (LMB). The league is contested by 20 teams, evenly divided in North and South zones. The season started on 11 April with the series between the defending champions Pericos de Puebla and Diablos Rojos del México and will end on 11 September with the last game of the Serie del Rey, the Mexican League championship series.

Team changes

The number of teams increased from eighteen in 2023 to twenty in 2024 (the last time that twenty teams contested the league was in 1979) with four new franchises joining the LMB for this season. Dorados de Chihuahua and

Conspiradores de Querétaro The Conspiradores de Querétaro (English: Querétaro Conspirators) are a professional baseball team in the Mexican League based in Huimilpan in the Querétaro City, Metropolitan Area of Querétaro. Their home ballpark is the Conspiradores de Queré ...

joined the league as expansion teams. The Dorados first played in the Mexican League in 1940 and had since played in the league in several stints, the most recent being from 2007 to 2010, while the Conspiradores were established in 2023, bringing professional baseball to

Querétaro Querétaro (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro, links=no; Otomi language, Otomi: ''Hyodi Ndämxei''), is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. I ...

for the first time. Charros de Jalisco returned to the LMB after purchasing the Mariachis de Guadalajara; Charros last played in the Mexican League in 1995 and joined the

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in 2014.

Caliente de Durango Caliente de Durango is a professional baseball team in the Mexican League based in Durango. Their home ballpark is the Estadio Francisco Villa, with a capacity of 6,000 people. The team was established in 2024 after the former Durango's Mexican Le ...

, owned by Grupo Caliente, replaced

Generales de Durango The Generales de Durango (English: Durango Generals) are a professional baseball team in the Mexican League (LMB) that was established in November 2016. The team is based in Durango, the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Durango. ...

after the league suspended the Generales due to its owner's legal problems.

Standings

League leaders

Notes

Milestones

Batters

* Charros de Jalisco: On 2 June, the Charros set an LMB record by hitting five

back-to-back home runs In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home plate safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team. A home run is ...

in a game against the Tigres de Quintana Roo.

Luis Sardiñas Luis Alexander Sardiñas Avilez (born May 16, 1993) is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder for the Algodoneros de Unión Laguna of the Mexican League. Sardiñas signed with the Texas Rangers as an amateur free agent in 2009. He made h ...

Vimael Machín Vimael Machín (born September 25, 1993) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball infielder for the Mariachis de Guadalajara of the Mexican League. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics. Career Amateur Machín atte ...

, Anthony Giansanti, Greg Bird, and Oswaldo Arcia homered consecutively against two Quintana Roo pitchers.

Pitchers

No-hitters

* Kevin Kelly ( MTY): On 31 May, in the second game of a scheduled doubleheader that was limited to seven innings, Kelly threw a no-hitter against the Pericos de Puebla. It was the fifth no-hitter in franchise history.

References

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