{"id":107151,"date":"2026-02-06T22:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/tomateros-de-culiacan-to-the-caribbean-series-final-2026-eliminate-leones-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T22:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:27:34","slug":"tomateros-de-culiacan-to-the-caribbean-series-final-2026-eliminate-leones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/tomateros-de-culiacan-to-the-caribbean-series-final-2026-eliminate-leones-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomateros de Culiac\u00e1n to the Caribbean Series Final 2026: Eliminate Leones"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tomateros de Culiac\u00e1n to the Caribbean Series Final 2026<\/h2>\n\nZapopan, Jalisco \u2013 Los Tomateros de Culiac\u00e1n secured their place in the 2026 Caribbean Series final after defeating Leones del Escogido with a score of 9-4 in the first semifinal of the tournament, held this Friday at the Pan American Stadium.\n\nThe Mexican offense demonstrated its power with 13 hits, including a crucial home run by Dominican Esteban Florial in the fourth inning. This hit changed the course of the game, putting Culiac\u00e1n in a definitive lead.\n\n\n<p>This triumph marks the Tomateros&#8217; second consecutive victory over the Dominican team, after their match on the last day of the round robin. With this result, the Mexican team repeats the feat of the Tigres del Licey in 2012, who reached the final after finishing second in their local league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Florial: The Turning Point<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Lions took the lead early in the game. In the second inning, a double by Franchy Cordero and a single by Marcos Hern\u00e1ndez put the score at 1-0. In the third, they took advantage of walks and a defensive error to increase the lead to 2-0.\n\nHowever, the fourth episode changed the landscape. With two outs and runners on base, the Dominican manager took out starting pitcher Oscar de la Cruz and brought in reliever Kenny Hern\u00e1ndez to face Florial. The outfielder didn&#8217;t fail and hit a home run that turned the score 3-2 in favor of the Mexicans.\n\nFrom that moment on, Culiac\u00e1n dominated the game. In the sixth inning, they added two more runs, thanks to timely singles and a sacrifice fly by Al\u00ed Sol\u00eds. The attack continued in the seventh, with a cluster of four runs that practically sealed the victory.\n\nThe Lions tried to react, loading the bases in the sixth inning and scoring one more run with a walk to Gustavo N\u00fa\u00f1ez, but they couldn&#8217;t capitalize on the opportunity.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Performance on the mound<\/h2>\n\n\nDavid Reyes opened for Culiac\u00e1n, pitching four innings and allowing two runs. Anthonny Gose took the win as a reliever, while Kenny Hern\u00e1ndez took the loss.\n\nBy the Escogido, Oscar de la Cruz pitched 3.1 innings before being relieved in the fourth episode. The Dominican bullpen failed to control the Mexican offense in the final innings.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Waiting for the rival<\/h2>\n\n\nWith this victory, the Tomateros advance to Saturday&#8217;s grand final and await the winner of the match between the Cangrejeros de Santurce (Puerto Rico) and the Charros de Jalisco (Red Mexico).\n\nThe Sinaloa team will seek to lift the champion&#8217;s trophy of the 2026 Caribbean Series, after an outstanding offensive performance at the key moment of the tournament.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomateros de Culiac\u00e1n to the Caribbean Series Final 2026 Zapopan, Jalisco \u2013 Los Tomateros de Culiac\u00e1n secured their place in the 2026 Caribbean Series final after defeating Leones del Escogido with a score of 9-4 in the first semifinal of the tournament, held this Friday at the Pan American Stadium. The Mexican offense demonstrated its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[2688,175,11753,11718],"class_list":{"0":"post-107151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-caribbean-series","9":"tag-final","10":"tag-florial","11":"tag-tomateros"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}