The No. 3 seed, Aguilas Metropolitanas, won their first Panama Probeis championship title for the 2024-25 winter league season and beat the No. 1 seed Atlánticos Bocas Del Toro-Colón 12-8 in 10 innings in Game Five of the best-of-five series at Estadio Rod Carew in Panama City, Panama.
The Aguilas Metropolitanas will play in the 2025 Serie De Las Americas event in Nicaragua from January 24-30.
Former Panamanian Major League Baseball legend Carlos Lee is the president of the Panama Probeis League.
The Panama Probeis league is also known as the Liga Profesional de Béisbol de Panamá.
Sebastian Arroyo was the manager for the Aguilas Metropolitanas in the 2024-25 Panama Probeis season.
Aguilas Metropolitanas right-handed pitcher Kevin Rodriguez was named the 2024-25 Panama Probeis championship series MVP.
Kevin Rodríguez (RHP) Jugador Más Valioso de la Serie Final….Felicidades Kevin….???????? pic.twitter.com/dbZ6fKf6lS
— @AguilasMetro (@AguilasMetro) January 10, 2025
Japanese prospect and Aguilas Metropolitanas second baseman Jumpei Ohashi was named the MVP for Game 5 of the 2024-25 Panama ProBeis championship series.
The Aguilas Metropolitanas offense tacked on four runs in the top of the 10th inning and capped off with first baseman Carlos Xavier Quiroz cracking a three-run double to go up 12-8 over the Atlánticos Bocas Del Toro-Colón.
Aguilas Metropolitanas shortstop Yeremy Lezcano placed a squeeze bunt between the right side of the pitchers mound to score Ohashi with the bases loaded to go up 9-8.
⚠️????10 | #PROBEIS #AGUvsATL ¡Squeeze play! La montó Yeremy Lezcano de emergente, anota Ohashi Jumpei, las @AguilasMetro toman el comando.
9-8
— Bitácora Deportiva (@BitacoraPma) January 10, 2025
Aguilas Metropolitanas relief pitcher Antonio Frias threw the final four innings on Thursday night and got Atlánticos Bocas Del Toro-Colón first baseman Abraham Rodriguez to pop up to Lezcano for the final out of the game in the bottom of the 10th inning to win the 2024-25 Panama Probeis championship title.
Final del Partido # 5
Felicidades ???????? pic.twitter.com/Pau5PMwfTk— @AguilasMetro (@AguilasMetro) January 10, 2025
The Aguilas Metropolitanas finished runner-up in the Panama ProBeis championship in 2015, 2016, 2019, and 2024 before winning the 2024-25 season.
The recap and stream of Game 5 of the 2024-25 Panama Probeis championship series was televised on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lsu4xBTuBE.
Selective interviews and play-by-play scoring are located on https://x.com/BitacoraPma page from the 2024-25 Panama Probeis best-of-five championship series.
The box score of Game Five of the 2024-25 Panam Probeis championship series is on https://panamaprobeis.com/las-aguilas-metropolitanas-son-los-campeones-de-probeis-2024-25.
All regular season stats of players in the 2024-25 Panma Probeis season are on https://panamaprobeis.com/estadisticas/lideres-individuales/ .
The Atlánticos Bocas del Toro-Colón won the 2024-25 Probeis regular season title and ended the year with a record of 12-9, resulting in a berth in the league championship series.
The Federales de Chiriqui ended the 2024-25 Probeis season in second place with their record at 12-9 and did not sustain the league regular season title due to their head-to-head record against the Atlánticos Bocas del Toro-Colón.
The Federales de Chiriquí also lost in three games to the Aguilas Metropolitanas in the 2024-25 Panama ProBeis best-of-three semifinal series.
The Aguilas de Metropolitanas ended the 2024-25 season in third place with their record at 9-12. They won the tiebreaker over the Panama Nacionales that, ended the year in fourth place with the same record, and did not qualify for the Probeis postseason.