Second day of the Caribbean Series

*Tiburones de La Guaira won against Tigres del Licey *Criollos of Puerto Rico won the first *Mexico's loss to Curacao

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00:00 Well, let's go to the world of sports because on Thursday was the opening day of the Caribbean

00:19 Series 2024 that takes place in Miami, where in the closing game, the Tiburones of La Guaira

00:25 of Venezuela defeated the Tigres of Licey of the Dominican Republic with a final score

00:30 of 3 to 1.

00:32 At Loneport Park, home of the Major League Baseball team, the Miami Marlins, the Venezuelan

00:38 team dominated with good pitching by Cuban right-handed pitcher Miguel Romero.

00:44 The first Venezuelan run came from a Luis Torres RBI single to right field to put Venezuela

00:50 up on the scoreboard.

00:53 Later in the top of the sixth, Ramon Flores single to center field to drive home play

00:58 to Wilson Ramos for the second Venezuelan run.

01:02 Later in the top of the ninth, another Cuban, this time a former MLB star Yaciel Puig, hit

01:08 a solo home run to left the field to extend the lead to 3 to 1.

01:13 It is worth to recall that the Tiburones of La Guaira last appearance in Caribbean Series

01:18 was in 1986.

01:25 Previously in the inaugural game of the 2024 Caribbean Series, the Criollos of Cahua out

01:30 of Puerto Rico won 5 to 2 on the Giants of Rivas from Nicaragua.

01:35 In this way, the Criollos obtained the 200th team victory representing Puerto Rico in the

01:41 history of the Caribbean Classic.

01:44 In this context, after Nicaragua dominated the first innings of the game, the Criollos

01:48 took the lead in the sixth thing to Jack Lopez's triple.

01:53 On this way, the future Hall of Fame and former player of MLB Javier Molina celebrated his

01:59 first victory as manager in the Caribbean tournament.

02:07 Let's move on now to the middle game of the opening day, where the non-member team of

02:12 the tournament, the Royal Scorpions of Curacao, won in their debut against the historic representative

02:19 of Mexico, the Naranjeros of Hermosillo, with a close score of 6 runs to 5.

02:25 In the second inning, Mexico scored two runs thanks to a back-to-back home runs of Aaron

02:31 Althair and Julian Ornelas.

02:33 Then in the sixth, Curacao answered with another back-to-back homers by Jonathan Scoop and

02:39 Adhemar Rifalea to take the lead 5-2.

02:43 Finally, in the former Japanese League star Vladimir Valetien hit another home run to

02:49 give his team the winning run.

02:58 On Friday, the second day of the 2024 Caribbean Series brings us again another triple-headed

03:04 from the south of Florida.

03:06 In the first game, the champion team of the Panamanian League, the Federales of Chiriqui,

03:11 face the Curacao team that achieved a win in their debut.

03:15 In the middle game, the Tigers of Lice will also go head-to-head against Nicaragua in

03:21 a game between loser teams.

03:23 And at night, the Criollos of Cagua will seek for their second win as many games when they

03:28 play against the Naranjeros de Hermosillo.