The 2023 Caribbean Series was the 65th edition of the Caribbean Series, played at La Rinconada Baseball Stadium in Caracas and Jorge Luis García Carneiro Stadium in La Guaira, Venezuela from February 2 to February 10, 2023.
The series brought together the champions of each professional baseball league in the countries that make up the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation (Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama and Colombia), plus the representatives of Curaçao and Cuba as guests.
Stadium La Rinconada Baseball Stadium and Jorge Luis García Carneiro Stadium in Caracas were the hosts of the round robin matches and the semi-finals and La Rinconada hosted the finals and third place game. La Rinconada stadium was opened for the first time and it is the largest baseball stadium in South America with a capacity of 40,000.
Tournament format A single round-robin format was used; each team faced each other once. The four teams with the best records advanced to the semifinals (1st vs. 4th and 2nd vs. 3rd). The two losers met in the 3rd place match and the two winners met in the final to decide the tournament champion.
Participating teams TeamManagerMeans of qualification Vaqueros de Montería Ronald RamírezWinners of the 2022–23 Colombian Professional Baseball League Cañeros de Los Mochis José MorenoWinners of the 2022–23 Mexican Pacific League Federales de Chiriquí José MayorgaWinners of the 2022–23 Panamanian Professional Baseball League Indios de Mayagüez Mako OliverasWinners of the 2022–23 Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League Tigres del Licey José OffermanWinners of the 2022–23 Dominican Professional Baseball League Leones del Caracas José AlguacilWinners of the 2022–23 Venezuelan Professional Baseball League Agricultores (Las Tunas/Granma) Carlos MartíWinners of the 2022–23 Cuban Elite League WildCats KJ74 Hainley StatiaWinners of the 2022 Curaçao National Championship AA League
Preliminary round
Time zone: Time in Venezuela (UTC–4) DateTimeAwayResultHomeStadiumFebruary 210:30 Agricultores 3−1 (10) WildCats KJ74Jorge Luis García Carneiro StadiumFebruary 212:00 Cañeros de Los Mochis 5−4 Tigres del LiceyLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 215:00 Vaqueros de Montería 7−1 Indios de MayagüezJorge Luis García Carneiro StadiumFebruary 220:30 Leones del Caracas 5−2 Federales de ChiriquíLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 313:00 Federales de Chiriquí 6−5 Vaqueros de MonteríaLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 314:30 Tigres del Licey 3−1 AgricultoresJorge Luis García Carneiro StadiumFebruary 318:00 WildCats KJ74 2−1 Cañeros de Los MochisLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 319:30 Indios de Mayagüez 6−1 Leones del CaracasJorge Luis García Carneiro StadiumFebruary 410:30 WildCats KJ74 1−0 Federales de ChiriquíLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 414:00 Indios de Mayagüez 4−6 Tigres del LiceyJorge Luis García Carneiro StadiumFebruary 415:00 Vaqueros de Montería 6−7 Cañeros de Los MochisLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 419:30 Agricultores 3−20 Leones del CaracasLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 513:00 Vaqueros de Montería 6−5 (13) WildCats KJ74Jorge Luis García Carneiro StadiumFebruary 514:30 Cañeros de Los Mochis 6−5 AgricultoresLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 518:00 Indios de Mayagüez 2−3 Federales de ChiriquíJorge Luis García Carneiro StadiumFebruary 519:30 Tigres del Licey 2−3 (12) Leones del CaracasLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 610:30 Agricultores 4−5 Vaqueros de MonteríaLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 614:00 Tigres del Licey 10−1 Federales de ChiriquíJorge Luis García Carneiro StadiumFebruary 615:00 WildCats KJ74 1−3 Indios de MayagüezLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 619:30 Cañeros de Los Mochis 7−0 Leones del CaracasLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 713:00 Agricultores 3−4 Indios de MayagüezLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 714:30 Federales de Chiriquí 1−2 Cañeros de Los MochisJorge Luis García Carneiro StadiumFebruary 718:00 Vaqueros de Montería 11−1 Tigres del LiceyLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 719:30 Leones del Caracas 8−6 WildCats KJ74Jorge Luis García Carneiro StadiumFebruary 810:30 Federales de Chiriquí 10–4 AgricultoresLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 814:00 WildCats KJ74 2–6 Tigres del LiceyJorge Luis García Carneiro StadiumFebruary 815:00 Indios de Mayagüez 9–3 Cañeros de Los MochisLa Rinconada Baseball StadiumFebruary 819:30 Leones del Caracas 7–4 Vaqueros de MonteríaLa Rinconada Baseball Stadium
Knockout stage
Semi-finals
DateTimeAwayResultHomeStadiumFebruary 915:30 Tigres del Licey 8–3 Cañeros de Los MochisJorge Luis García Carneiro StadiumFebruary 919:30 Vaqueros de Montería 5–7 Leones del CaracasLa Rinconada Baseball Stadium
Third place play-off
DateTimeAwayResultHomeStadiumFebruary 1014:30 Vaqueros de Montería 0–1 Cañeros de Los MochisLa Rinconada Baseball Stadium
Final
Awards
+All-Tournament TeamPositionPlayerStarting Pitcher Eduar LópezRelief Pitcher Anthony VizcayaCatcher José FélixFirst Baseman Reynaldo RodríguezSecond Baseman Francisco AcuñaThird Baseman Emmanuel RiveraShortstop Dayan FríasOutfielders Emilio Bonifácio Gustavo Campero Danry VásquezDesignated Hitter Jordan DíazManager José Moreno
References
External links Official website (Spanish)