How difficult is a Caribbean series final direct?

Gilbert Gómez, leader of Tigres del Licey, finalist in the 2024 edition of the Caribbean series, spoke with Digital AM850 about the challenges that a team presents in a unique match that defines a championship.

The Caribbean series It is an event that brings together the champion teams of the four winter leagues that are part of the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation (CBPC)as well as its guests, and is called to be one of the highest level tournaments in terms of baseball in the world. It is an event rich in history that has seen several of the best baseball players parade that have uniformed themselves in Major Leagues And its popularity is, without a doubt, quite wide among winter baseball followers.

By its nature, the Caribbean series It has fundamental differences with respect to the way in how the winter leagues are played, especially for the sense of rush that each game entails, taking into account that, due to the short of the tournament, any error can cause to lose an important game or, in The worst case, the game for the championship.

In the Caribbean Series Mexicali 2025the final will be played between the local team, Jalisco charrosand the champion of the Dominican Republic, Lions of the chosen one. For the purpose of understanding what happens after racks in a final of Caribbean series, Digital AM850 He talked with Gilbert Gómezleader of Tigers of the Licey in the Professional Baseball League of the Dominican Republic (Lidom)who had the opportunity to play the last game of the last edition of the Caribbean series.

Gómez He spoke in detail about the preparation for the event, as well as the main difference in that scenario, with respect to the winter baseball season.

“It is a different baseball”; said Gómez to AM850 Regarding the game form of the Caribbean series. “You do not have the ability to replace the daily roster as you do here. You have a fixed roster of 28 (players), I think it is, where you take them and handle the bullpen becomes different, more emphasis is made in the importance of the openers, because you do not have the ability that a pitcher throws two tickets today and tomorrow you can place another (in the roster) ”added Gómez.

“It is a baseball, from the point of view of the leaders, (one) It approaches with a different mentality”Said the foreman of the Tigers.

Gómez It was emphatic in indicating that the most complicated is the handling of the pitchers, because as a leader you have to do everything possible to administer the arms available, taking into account the number of matches in a few days, as well as the impossibility of making substitutions.

Regarding the final game of Caribbean seriesin which Gómez and Licey They fell defeated in 2024, the foreman points out that the players are very aware of the importance of a unique game and the little space that exists to make mistakes.

“Players want to win. In addition to bringing the crown to the country, I understand that there is a patriot pride that is there, but there is also a bonus for those players who, if they arrive in the first place, because obviously touches more money and that is always an important motivational factor“, said Gómez.

“They (The players) They know that you win or lose will cost you, maybe, that bonus we have been talking about, I don’t think there is much to say (…) there is a (alone) game, give everything for everything, It is like a seven game in a final series and the players, believe me, that you should not tell them much when it comes to this”Said the champion leader of the 2023-24 season of Lidom.