The 2021-2022 LVBP season will start on October 23

AFP Company

Venezuela’s primary pastime, baseball, will launch on October 23, the Venezuelan Skilled Baseball League introduced yesterday.

“The 2021-2022 season will formally start subsequent Saturday, October 23, with the opening day between Tiburones de La Guaira and Caribes de Anzoátegui, present champion, on the Alfonso ‘Chico’ Carrasquel stadium,” in Puerto La Cruz, reported a notice from the Venezuelan Skilled Baseball League (LVBP).

The video games Leones del Caracas-Tigres de Aragua (in Maracay), Águilas del Zulia-Navegantes del Magallanes (in Valencia) and Bravos de Margarita-Cardenales de Lara (in Barquisimeto) will full the opening day, the textual content added.

There shall be a brand new format, in response to stories revealed by the native press.

Pending the formalization of the format by the LVBP, every of the eight groups will play 49 video games within the common spherical. The highest 5 will advance to the playoffs.

The playoffs (Spherical Robin) shall be a spherical robin between the 5 qualifiers, the very best two will go on to the grand closing. It stays to be confirmed what number of staff video games shall be performed within the postseason.

Historically, the common spherical included 63 video games for every membership, however the calendar has been shortened as a result of financial disaster of a Venezuela that has had eight consecutive years of recession.

Within the earlier harvest, with a fair sharper minimize as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, the franchises had 40 commitments per head.

The season will finish on the finish of January. The champion will go to the 2022 Caribbean Sequence, in Santo Domingo, wherein he’ll compete together with his friends from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico and Colombia.