The Dominican Professional Winter Baseball Championship resumes today after the New Year holiday break. The Toros del Este are in the lead after winning five of their first seven games played of the 18-game round robin to decide the playoff teams. Over the holidays, the many fans of the Tigres del Licey watched how their team did exactly the opposite with five losses and only two wins.
The Leones del Escogido are in second place, with 4 wins and 3 losses, and the Estrellas Orientales have three wins and four losses.
The series continues on Wednesday, 2 January through 14 January 2019 with matches at the Santo Domingo, La Romana and San Pedro de Macoris ball parks.
The semifinal round is formatted as “all against all,” in which the four teams play a total of 18 games, six against each of the rivals. The two teams with the best record during the round robin face off in the finals. If before the 18 games are completed two teams qualify for the finals, the round robin would end at that moment and 48 hours later the final series the tournament would begin.
The winner of the Dominican Professional Baseball Winter Championship then goes on to battle the best teams from Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Series scheduled to be played in Venezuela from 2 to 8 February 2019.
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2 January 2019
