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A new baseball boom in Mexico


In our country a new dawn of baseball is brewing. The signs that it is once again permeating the popular taste of the entire country are evident. The ceiling is still very high, which offers greater and increasingly ambitious challenges.

Jalisco’s flagship team, the champion Charros are publicly recognized by Major League Baseball and the San Diego Padres, and the September 9 game at Petco Park is dedicated in their honor, in the all-star series of the year between the Dodgers and Parents. With this fact, the national baseball is also recognized.

Mexican players in the Major Leagues shine with their own light. And not only with the always well-reviewed pitchers, but with more than a dozen position players who are bulwarks in their teams’ offenses. Every day of the week we read of triumphs or saves by José Urquidy, Julio Urías, Andrés Muñoz, Giovanny Gallegos, Humberto Castellanos, Adrián Martínez, Luis Cessa, Víctor Arano. Or hits and home runs by Isaac Paredes, Joey Meneses, Ramón and Luis Urías, Jonathan Aranda, Alejo López, Alex Verdugo, Luis González.

In the Zone Championships of the Mexican Baseball League, the public has responded in the four places involved. Monterrey, with a packed house of 21,000 attendees at the “Palacio Sultán”. In Mexico City, with 18 thousand fans watching their Devils. In Tijuana, attendance averaged 15,000 per game, not just in the Playoffs, but the entire season. The same in the Kukulcán, in Mérida, where the Lions have become a religion.

In the four games that the surprising series lasted in which Sultanes swept the Toros, more than 70 thousand spectators attended.

Meanwhile, in the five games that have been held between Mexico (three wins) and Leones, 81 thousand fans were present.

The public is recognizing the quality of our baseball. The Charros, in their recent championship season, with an authorization of 50 percent capacity, put 350 thousand people in 45 meetings (34 regular and 11 Postseason). This year will far exceed that figure. The same in the other places in the League.

Culiacán, Hermosillo, Mexicali and Monterrey are LaMP franchises that are state capitals. And they are complemented by the other five most important cities on the Pacific coast: Ciudad Obregón, Navojoa, Los Mochis, Guasave and Mazatlán.

There is still much to do in Mexican baseball, but it is recognized as an attractive spectacle, with security and comfort in the stadiums, and a family atmosphere worth witnessing. In sports, it includes national figures and their necessary ingredient of foreigners, which enhance and allow the fan to make the necessary and tasty comparisons between the national player and the imported ones.

The 2022-23 Season of the Mexican Pacific League is about to start. On October 11, in Zapopan, the Charros receive Mazatlán; Monterrey to Mexicali and Culiacán to Guasave. On the 12th the series continues in Jalisco against Mazatlán, and they open Navojoa in Los Mochis and Obregón in Hermosillo.

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