MEXICO CITY._ Despite the successes of 2023 and 2024 at the Alfredo Harp Helú stadium, Major League Baseball ruled out Mexico for official Major League games in 2025, although they promise to return in 2026.
The Big Show caravan will not return for now to San Juan, Puerto Rico, whose emblematic Hiram Bithorn was the alternate venue for the Montreal Expos in 2004.
Next year’s dates, March 18 and 19, were scheduled for the Japanese who will have the opportunity to see the Los Angeles Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani against the Chicago Cubs and countrymen Javier Assad and Isaac Paredes.
The current World Series champions and the Cubs, who have fallen into a slump after ending a century-long drought in 2016, will no doubt fill the seats of the cathedral of Japanese baseball, the Tokyo Dome (55,000).
IN the Dominican Republic, former big leaguer Rigoberto Beltrán is a pitching coach for Las Estrellas Orientales led by Fernando Tatis, Sr. and who are expecting Robinson Canó for the last days of November.
Beltrán worked in 2024 in the AA branch of the Washington Nationals, Harrisburgh Senators, after in 2023 he was the bullpen coach of the Cleveland Guardians in the Major Leagues.
The Tijuana native has not been involved in Mexican baseball again, specifically in the Mexican Pacific League, since he was removed from the position of manager of the Algodoneros de Guasave in the fall of 2019.
ON A day like today, in 1970- Vicente Romo recorded his fourth consecutive shutout and fifth in six starts by beating the Mayos de Navojoa 2-0. Ramón Arano, who allowed a home run to Francisco Estrada, took the loss.
In 2004: The recently relocated Washington National League franchise announces its new name, logo and colors, ditching the original district team, popularly known as the Senators from 1901 to 1960. The club, dressed in red, white, blue and gold, will be known as Nationals.
Today is the birthday of Cecilio Acosta (78) and Óscar Villarreal (43). On November 22, 1950, Lyman Bostock was born, who was a collateral victim of a fatal disagreement between a couple, and was shot to death by a jealous husband on September 24, 1978.
In 2017: former hitter Miguel Suárez, immortal in the Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame, died at the age of 67 in Guasave, Sinaloa.
**”Jealousy is a sum of love and hate, insecurity and pride.”- Anonymous.
IN streaks.- Despite four consecutive six-inning outings and five in 8 starts this season, Cuban Odrisamer Despaigne (2-3, 3.65) won for the first time in a month with the Yaquis of Ciudad Obregón… The field Algodoneros’ shortstop, Jorge Flores (.321, 0, 15), is the surprise as number four in the top ten. The former Toronto Blue Jays prospect has never averaged .300 in the LMP which he reached in 2012 with the Navojoa Mayos… Who needs some at-bats and maintain his good pace to get into the top 10, is Mateo Gil ( .357, 4, 11), the great revelation of the Charros of Jalisco. The promotion of manager Benjamín Gil’s first-born son led the board to remove Christian Villanueva from circulation (.119, 1, 3).
Despite the successes of 2023 and 2024 at the Alfredo Harp Helú stadium, Major League Baseball ruled out Mexico for official Major League games in 2025, although they promise to return in 2026.
