José Marmolejos enters Select Club in Triunfo de Devils Rojos

The toletero became the seventh player in the story that shoots homers in the last and first game in appearances in the series of the King of LMB.

CD. From Mexico – José Marmolejos joined a select group of seven players when they are Red Devils of Mexico To win the Game 1 of the King series with a homer in consecutive games in the series by the title of the Mexican Baseball League.

In addition, Marmolejos is the first who does so in the same inning, because in 2024 he did it in the first entry of game 4 of the series in which the red devils were crowned before the Monterrey Sultans.

On Wednesday, at the Alfredo Harp Helú stadium, the Toletero Pingo opened the King 2025 series with home run in the first episode against Jalisco charros and his stellar opener Luis Payán.

In 2024, Juan Carlos Gamboa became the sixth to enter the select club after in 2014, he did so in the fourth encounter against the Pericos de Puebla and repeated in the first duel against Sultans in the second inning.

Gamboa is the only one of the seven who has achieved it in consecutive shifts, because in 2014, in the tenth entrance, he gave the title to the Red Devils and in his next appearance in a series of the King, 10 years later, he did so in his first appearance on the plate against Monterrey.

The other five players that make up the list are Nelson Barrera, Miguel Ojeda, Jasson Bass, Sebastián Valle and Peter O’Brien.

Barrera was the first to achieve the feat by hitting homer in the tenth inning of the last game of the final series of 1987 with the Red Devils and repeat in the fifth episode of the first game of the 1988 final.

Ojeda, also with the Red Devils, was the second to achieve it in the second inning in the final game of the series for the 2000 title and open in 2001 with homer in the fourth episode of the first game.

Jasson Bass, from the Saraperos de Saltillo, was the first foreigner to join the list in the final series of 2004 and 2005. He did it in the third inning by closing in 2004 and in the seventh episode when he opened in 2005.

Valle, from the Lions of Yucatan, was the fourth at the end of the 2019 final with home run in the fourth episode of game 7 and hitting another in the seventh entry of the first of the series of 2021.

In 2021 and 2023, O’Brien was the fifth to achieve it, but in the only one to do it with two different teams; In 2021, he closed game 7 with homer in the third episode with the bulls of Tijuana and in 2023, he did so in the seventh inning of the first match with the Pericos de Puebla.