{"id":107303,"date":"2026-02-08T04:57:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/tomateros-de-culiacan-to-the-caribbean-series-final-2026-eliminate-leones-4\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:57:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:57:57","slug":"tomateros-de-culiacan-to-the-caribbean-series-final-2026-eliminate-leones-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/tomateros-de-culiacan-to-the-caribbean-series-final-2026-eliminate-leones-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomateros de Culiac\u00e1n to the Caribbean Series Final 2026: Eliminate Leones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomateros de Culiac\u00e1n to the Caribbean Series Final 2026<\/h2>\n\nThe Tomateros de Culiac\u00e1n, representing Mexico, secured their place in the final of the 2026 Caribbean Series after defeating the Leones del Escogido of the Dominican Republic with a score of 9-4. The semi-final match took place at the Pan American Stadium.\n\nThe Mexican offense demonstrated its power by connecting 13 hits, highlighting a crucial home run by Dominican Esteban Florial in the fourth inning, which marked a turning point in the game and gave Culiac\u00e1n the definitive advantage.\n\n\n

This triumph represents the second consecutive victory of the Tomateros over the Dominican team, after their match in the last round of the round robin. With this result, the Mexican team repeats the feat of the Tigres del Licey in 2012, who also reached the final after finishing second in their local league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florial: The Turning Point<\/h3>\n\n\nThe Lions took the lead early in the game. In the second inning, a double by Franchy Cordero and a run-scoring 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 their lead to 2-0.\n\nHowever, the fourth inning changed the course of the game. With two outs and runners on base, the Dominican manager took out starting pitcher Oscar de la Cruz and brought in reliever Kenny Hernandez to face Florial. The outfielder didn’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 scored two more runs, thanks to timely singles and a sacrifice fly by Al\u00ed Sol\u00eds. The attack continued in the seventh, where they manufactured a cluster of four runs that practically sealed the game.\n\nThe Lions tried to react, loading the bases in the sixth inning and scoring one more run thanks to a walk to Gustavo N\u00fa\u00f1ez, but they failed to capitalize on their opportunities.\n\n\n

Performance in the Mont\u00edculo<\/h3>\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 couldn’t stop the Mexican offense in the final innings.\n\n\n

Waiting for the opponent<\/h3>\n\n\nWith this victory, the Tomateros advance to Saturday’s grand final and await the winner of the match between the Cangrejeros de Santurce (Puerto Rico) and the Charros de Jalisco (Mexico).\n\nThe Sinaloa team will seek the championship of the 2026 Caribbean Series, after an outstanding offensive performance at the key moment of the tournament.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomateros de Culiac\u00e1n to the Caribbean Series Final 2026 The Tomateros de Culiac\u00e1n, representing Mexico, secured their place in the final of the 2026 Caribbean Series after defeating the Leones del Escogido of the Dominican Republic with a score of 9-4. The semi-final match took place at the Pan American Stadium. The Mexican offense demonstrated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[2688,175,11753,11718],"class_list":{"0":"post-107303","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\/107303","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=107303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}