Caribbean Series 2025: Dominican Republic and Mexico face the championship

The final match of the current edition of the Caribbean event will be a shock of high expectations among the favorites of the tournament.

After seven days of action, the Caribbean Series Mexicali 2025 He has his finalists, who will face the supremacy of Caribbean professional baseball. On the one hand, there are the Lions of the chosen onerepresentatives of the Dominican Republic, who are looking for their first championship (fifth in general) since the 2012 edition of the event. On the other side, the Jalisco charrosMexican champions, they look for their first trophy in the fair Caribbean.

In which it is the sixth consecutive final for a Dominican team in Caribbean seriesthe Charros They will seek to end another drought: the nine years of Mexican squads without winning in the tournament. This is the longest active drought of championships among the four members of the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation (CBPC).

The Mexican drought of championships Caribbean series It has been extended for so long that it even saw two guest teams that had never participated, winning the event before them: Herrera bulls from Panama (2019) and Barranquilla alligators of Colombia (2022).

As for the current series, the two teams arrive in different situations. The Charros They have completely dominated the tournament, reaching the final undefeated with a 5-0 mark, even defeating even the Lions of the chosen one During its qualifying stage confrontation, by score of two laps to zero. The Dominican team won its first two commitments, then lost the next two and ended up beating the Cardinals of Lara to qualify until the final.

With respect to the offensive level, in a Caribbean series In which very little has been hit, the team of the Dominican Republic arrives in better conditions. In five games, the Dominicans bat for .259, compared to .236 that has placed Mexico. The PAHO of the Lions is .669 and that of the Mexicans amounts to .629. Another important fact that must be highlighted is that, so far, Mexico has not connected home run and accumulates only nine extrabases. The Quequeyanos have two home runs and in total they have fired twelve multiple bases.

In pitching, Mexico has taken the best part with an effectiveness of 1.00 in 45 tickets, while Dominicans have an effectiveness of 2.77 in 46 episodes.