The 2024 Mexican League season was the 99th season in the history of the baseball Mexican League (LMB). The league is contested by 20 teams, evenly divided in North and South zones. The season started on 11 April with the series between the defending champions Pericos de Puebla and Diablos Rojos del México and ended on 9 September with the last game of the Serie del Rey, where the Diablos Rojos del México defeated the Sultanes de Monterrey to win the championship.
Team changes The number of teams increased from eighteen in 2023 to twenty in 2024 (the last time that twenty teams contested the league was in 1979) with four new franchises joining the LMB for this season.
Dorados de Chihuahua and Conspiradores de Querétaro joined the league as expansion teams. The Dorados first played in the Mexican League in 1940 and had since played in the league in several stints, the most recent being from 2007 to 2010, while the Conspiradores were established in 2023, bringing professional baseball to Querétaro for the first time.
Charros de Jalisco returned to the LMB after purchasing the Mariachis de Guadalajara; Charros last played in the Mexican League in 1995 and joined the Mexican Pacific League in 2014. Caliente de Durango, owned by Grupo Caliente, replaced Generales de Durango after the league suspended the Generales due to its owner's legal problems.
Standings
Rank Team W L Pct. GB STK 1 Sultanes de Monterrey 53 37 – L2 2 Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos 54 39 0.5 W2 3 Algodoneros de Unión Laguna 52 39 1.5 W2 4 Toros de Tijuana 52 40 2.0 W6 5 Acereros de Monclova 51 40 2.5 L2 6 Rieleros de Aguascalientes 48 43 5.5 W2 7 Saraperos de Saltillo 44 48 10.0 L2 8 Caliente de Durango 37 55 17.0 W2 9 Charros de Jalisco 36 56 18.0 L2 10 Dorados de Chihuahua 33 60 21.5 L3
Rank Team W L Pct. GB STK 1 Diablos Rojos del México 71 19 — W3 2 Conspiradores de Querétaro 50 38 20.0 W2 3 Leones de Yucatán 45 40 23.5 L3 4 El Águila de Veracruz 46 44 25.0 L2 5 Guerreros de Oaxaca 46 44 25.0 L1 6 Pericos de Puebla 45 44 25.5 W1 7 Olmecas de Tabasco 47 46 25.5 W2 8 Bravos de León 37 53 34.0 L1 9 Piratas de Campeche 32 55 37.5 L2 10 Tigres de Quintana Roo 25 64 45.5 W1
Postseason
First round
Zone Series
Championship Series
Serie del Rey Summary
Game summaries Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Game 4
League leaders
+ Batting leaders Stat Player Team Total AVG Robinson Canó México .431 HR Art Charles Yucatán 33 RBI Julián Ornelas México 84 R Yurisbel Gracial Querétaro 95 H Robinson Canó México 141 SB Billy Hamilton Jalisco 37
+ Pitching leaders Stat Player Team Total W Trevor Bauer México 10 Juan Pablo Oramas Tabasco César Valdez Yucatán ERA Zac Grotz Monclova 2.35 K Trevor Bauer México 120 IP David Reyes Veracruz 123.0 SV Fernando Salas Tabasco 28
Milestones Batters Charros de Jalisco: On 2 June, the Charros set an LMB record by hitting five back-to-back home runs in a game against the Tigres de Quintana Roo. Luis Sardiñas, Vimael Machín, Anthony Giansanti, Greg Bird, and Oswaldo Arcia homered consecutively against two Quintana Roo pitchers. José Marmolejos (MEX): On 9 July, Marmolejos hit two home runs in one inning, becoming the fourth player in Diablos history to achieve the feat, and the 25th overall in LMB history.
Pitchers No-hitters Kevin Kelly (MTY): On 31 May, in the second game of a scheduled doubleheader that was limited to seven innings, Kelly threw a no-hitter against the Pericos de Puebla. It was the fifth no-hitter in franchise history. Strikeouts in a game Trevor Bauer (MEX): On 21 June, Bauer broke the LMB record for strikeouts in a game, fanning 19 batters in a 6–1 win over the Guerreros de Oaxaca.
Awards Award Player Team Ref. Most Valuable Player Robinson Canó Diablos Rojos del México Rookie of the Year Denny Román Sultanes de Monterrey Pitcher of the Year Trevor Bauer Diablos Rojos del México Reliever of the Year Fernando Salas Olmecas de Tabasco Defensive Player of the Year Franklin Barreto Diablos Rojos del México Manager of the Year José Offerman Conspiradores de Querétaro
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