Venezuela and Panama will open the 2021 Caribbean Series

The tournament will be played in Mazatlán between January 31 and February 6, announced this Tuesday 10-N the Caribbean Baseball Confederation.

The champion teams of Venezuela and Panama will animate the opening match of the 2021 Caribbean Series to be held between January 31 and February 6 at the Teodoro Mariscal stadium in Mazatlán, Mexico.

The day will include the matches between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico novenas, and the closing match by Colombia and the Mexican hosts, according to the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation (Cbpc) reported on Tuesday 10-N.

The calendar of the nicknamed “Little World Series” will continue on February 1 with the confrontations between Panama and Colombia; Venezuela and Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic with Mexico, whose team will always play at the last minute because it is the host country for that version.

The teams will continue to play each other until February 5, when the semifinal matches will be held by the teams that occupied the first and fourth places and those that finished in the second and third positions.

The champion team of the Caribbean Series will be the winner of the clash that on February 6 will face the teams that passed the semifinals.

Toros del Este, from the Dominican Republic, is the monarch of the last series, which was played in Puerto Rico last February and which represented the twentieth championship for that country.

The Confederation of Professional Baseball of the Caribbean, chaired by the Dominican Juan Francisco Puello Herrera, has not yet decided if the Caribbean Series of Mazatlán will be played with an audience in the stands.