2024 Caribbean Series

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 ballpark.^[1]

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)
Runners-up	Tigres del Licey
Third place	Federales de Chiriquí
Fourth place	Curaçao Suns
Tournament statistics
Games played	25
Attendance	340,325 (13,613 per game)
Awards
MVP	Ricardo Pinto (Tiburones de la Guaira)
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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.

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[a]	—	Advance to knockout stage
2	Federales de Chiriquí	6	5	1	33	22	+11	.833[a]	—
3	Tigres del Licey	6	3	3	15	21	−6	.500[b]	2
4	Curaçao Suns	6	3	3	19	21	−2	.500[b]	2
5	Criollos de Caguas	6	3	3	22	20	+2	.500[b]	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. Head-to-head: Tiburones 1-0; Federales 0-1
2. 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	Tiburones de La Guaira	.474
Hits	3 tied with[note 1]		10
Runs	Jhonny Yussef Santos	Federales de Chiriquí	7
Home runs	5 tied with[note 2]		2
Runs batted in	2 tied with[note 3]		8
Stolen bases	Hernán Pérez	Tiburones de La Guaira	4
On-base percentage*	Iván Herrera	Federales de Chiriquí	.556
Slugging percentage*	Jhonny Yussef Santos	Federales de Chiriquí	.833
OPS*	Aaron Altherr	Naranjeros de Hermosillo	1.308

* Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per team game

Pitching

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

* Minimum 0.8 innings pitched per team game

Awards

All-Tournament Team ^[4]

Pos.	Player	Team
SP	Ángel Padrón	Tiburones de La Guaira
RP	Jairo Asencio	Tigres del Licey
C	Iván Herrera	Federales de Chiriquí
1B	Hernán Pérez	Tiburones de La Guaira
2B	Robinson Canó	Tigres del Licey
3B	Dawel Lugo	Tigres del Licey
SS	Jack López	Criollos de Caguas
OF	Aaron Altherr	Naranjeros de Hermosillo
	Alexi Amarista	Tiburones de La Guaira
	Wladimir Balentien	Curaçao Suns
DH	Nelson Velázquez	Criollos de Caguas
Man.	José Mayorga	Federales de Chiriquí