We crown a champion in the Mexican Pacific League!

VENEZUELAN WINTER LEAGUE

MAGALLANES 10, ANZOATEGUI 3 IN MAGALLANES

Anzoategui:  Felix Perez (Cincinnati) was 3-for-4 with an RBI.  Niuman Romero (Oakland) was 2-for-5 with a double and a run.

Magallanes:  Ronny Cedeno was 3-for-5 with a two-run homer and three runs.  Josmil Pinto (Minnesota) was 2-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs.  Josh Lowey pitched five innings, allowing two runs (one earned) on six hits and two walks with two strikeouts.

The game:  Anzoategui scored two in the top of the first, but Pinto hit a three-run homer to cap a four-run bottom of the first to give Magallanes a lead it would not relinquish.  Ezequiel Carrera (Toronto) had a two-run single in a four-run fifth that put Magallanes up 8-2 and the game was never close again.

Series status:  Anzoategui leads the best-of-seven series two games to one.

MEXICAN PACIFIC LEAGUE

CULIACAN 4, JALISCO 3 IN CULIACAN

Jalisco:  Marquez Smith (Cincinnati) was 1-for-4 with a home run.  C. J. Retherford was 1-for-1 with a pinch-hit home run.  Mario Mendoza pitched two shutout innings, giving up one hit with one strikeout.

Culiacan:  Issmael Salas was 2-for-3 with a home run.  Maxwell Leon was 2-for-4 with a run.  Anthony Vasquez struck out five in 5.2 innings, allowing two runs on three hits and two walks.

The game:  Eric Farris (Minnesota) had a two-run single in a three-run third that put Culiacan up 3-0.  Salas homered in the fourth to make it 4-0.  Jalisco came back with single runs in the fifth, sixth, and eighth, but did not get the tying run on base.

Series status:  Culiacan wins the best-of-seven series four games to one.

PUERTO RICAN LEAGUE

Scheduled off-day.  Santurce leads Mayaguez in the best-of-seven series three games to two.