The Dominican Republic will defend its newly won Caribbean Series championship title in February 2022. The Aguilas Cibaeñas have just brought home the title for the 63rd version, the 2021 Caribbean Series.
The Caribbean Confederation of Professional Baseball (CBPC), the Caribbean Series organizers announced the regional competition would be held in the country shortly before the end of the tournament that was held in Mazatlan, Mexico. The Dominican city where the tournament will be held has not yet been defined. This would be the 64th version of the Caribbean Series.
Dominican lawyer Juan Francisco Puello Herrera, Baseball Commissioner for the Caribbean and president of the CBPC made the announcement in Mexico where he was accompanied by Vitelio Mejía Ortiz, president of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (Lidom). Mejía Ortiz accepted on behalf of the Dominican league and said he had learned a lot from the staging of the current event in Mazatlan, Mexico that will be applied to the organizing of the next championship.
He said: “It will be a pleasure to host all of you and we assure you of our best effort so that in our hands, the Caribbean Series event maintains all its splendor. We hope that with God’s grace we will have a less complicated scenario in relation to the limitations of Covid-19.”
The Caribbean Series last took place in the Dominican Republic in 2016. That year, the Venados de Mazatlán were crowned champions.
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El Caribe
7 February 2021