2018 Latin American Series

Latin American Series
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The 2018 Latin American Series was played from January 26 to January 31 in Managua, Nicaragua. Games were played at the Estadio Nacional Dennis Martínez.

For the first time since the competition began no team from the Colombian Professional Baseball League took part. Colombian champions Leones de Montería boycotted the event due to a dispute over missing prize money from their 2015 title. Their place in the series was awarded to the Curaçao Winter League.

Teams

• Bravos de Urracá (Panama) First appearance
• Tigres de Chinandega (Nicaragua) Third appearance. Won the 2017 Latin American Series
• Tobis de Acayucan (Mexico) Second appearance
• WildCats (Curaçao) First appearance

Standings

Team	Manager	Won	Lost
Nicaragua, Tigres de Chinandega	Len Picota	3	0
Mexico, Tobis de Acayucan	Félix Tejeda	2	1
Curacao, WildCats	-	1	2
Panama, Bravos de Urracá	Sharnol Adriana	0	3

Championship

Tigres de Chinandega 9-1 Tobis de Acayucan

Games

January 26

• WildCats 7, Bravos 6. Rojean Cleofa had 3 hits and Shairon Martis saves the win for fellow long-time Dutch national team member Diegomar Markwell.
• Tigres 10, Tobis 5.

January 27

• Tobis 12, WildCats 9. Curacao blows a 7-4 lead in the 8th, giving up 8 runs, 6 of them unearned.
• Tigres def. Bravos

January 28

• Tigres 6, WildCats 5. Chinandega's Wilber Bucardo and Curacao's Shair Lacrus each escape bases-loaded jams in the 9th to send the game to extra innings. Curacao scores twice in the top of the 11th but again the bullpen can't hang on to a lead; Willie Vásquez's two-run single ends it.
• Tobis 7, Bravos 2.

January 29

• Tobis 9, WildCats 3.
• Tigres 9, Tobis 1. After Porfi Altamirano throws out the first pitch, Jamar Walton puts on a show with a triple, homer and four RBI to be named the event's MVP.

Former major leaguers to appear in the event included Chinandega's Wilton López and the WildCats' Yurendell de Caster and Martis.