The Dominican Winter Professional Baseball League announced that the round robin to narrow the field to the two teams that will compete for the 2018-2019 championship will start on Thursday, 20 December 2018. Games will continue on Friday, 21 December and Saturday, 22 December. The league then goes on break from Sunday, 23 December, through Wednesday, 26 December. Games resume on Thursday, 27 December.
Estrellas Orientales, Tigres del Licey, Leones del Escogido and Toros del Este will battle it out through the end of January in a the semifinal round formatted as “all against all,” in which the four teams play a total of 18 games, six against each of the rivals. The best two qualify at the end of the tournament. If before the 18 games are completed two teams classify, the round 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 for Venezuela from 2 to 8 February 2019.
18 December 2018
