Tigres de Chinandega explained

Tigres de Chinandega
City:Chinandega, Nicaragua
Cap Logo:Tigres de Chinandega logo.png
League:Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League
Ballpark:Estadio Efraín Tijerino
League Champs:4 (2005–06, 2012–13, 2016–17, 2017–18)
Series:Latin American Series
Series Champs:2 (2017, 2018)
Colors:Blue, gold, white, black

The Tigres de Chinandega (English: Chinandega Tigers) are a baseball club that competes in the Nicaragua Professional Baseball League (LPBN), representing the city of Chinandega. The team has won the league championship four times, in 2006, 2012, 2017, and most recently in 2018. Tigres play their home games at Estadio Efraín Tijerino, which seats 9,000 people.

The team has also won two championships while playing in the Nicaraguan amateur baseball league, the Germán Pomares Ordóñez First Division (Spanish; Castilian: Campeonato Nacional de Béisbol Superior Germán Pomares Ordoñez|link=no), in 1971 and 1974.

Tigres won their second championship in 2013 and went on to participate in the 2013 Latin American Series held in Veracruz, where they finished as runners-up with 2 wins and 1 loss. They returned to the tournament in 2017, where they won their first international title, defeating Colombia's Leones de Montería 4-0 in the final.[1] Tigres won again in the 2018 edition, making them the winningest team in Latin American Series history after the tournament was suspended in 2019.[2] [3]

International competition

YearVenueFinishWinsLossesWin%Manager
2nd 3 1 Germán Mesa
1st 3 1 Len Picota
1st 4 0 Len Picota
Total 9 2

References

  1. http://www.lcbp.com.co/2016/articulos/311-tigres-de-chinandega-de-nicaragua-campeon-de-la-serie-latinoaericana-2017 TIGRES DE CHINANDEGA DE NICARAGUA CAMPEÓN DE LA SERIE LATINOAMERICANA 2017.
  2. Web site: Nicaragua y México a la final. . 2019-01-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180131200821/http://lbpn.com.ni/?p=55193 . 2018-01-31 . dead .
  3. Web site: Estadísticas Finales Etapa Clasificatoria al 28 de enero 2018. . 2019-01-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204410/http://lbpn.com.ni/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Bateadores-y-Lanzadores-14.pdf . 2018-01-30 . dead .