Tonight, the Leones de Yucatan and Tigres de Quintana Roo face off at Estadio Sherwin Williams Beto Avila in Cancun, in what will be the 10th game of the season for both clubs.
It’s hard to believe, especially because the season is just over a week old, but the 10-game mark also means that the 93-game regular is more than 10% finished.
So what have we noticed thus far?
These Tigres Have Some Claws – Both teams playing tonight are 5-4, and the Tigres, who lost quite a bit of offense out of the lineup from 2025, are off to a good start at 5-4 under first-year skipper Hector Espino. First baseman Carlos Castro leads the club with eight RBIs in nine games, and Diosbel Arias and Miles Simington join Castro with 11 hits to lead the team. On the mound, Xzavion Curry has been spectacular, making two starts and posting a 0.82 ERA and a 0.820 WHIP in 11 innings of work thus far. A final record of .500 or just slightly better should get a team into the playoffs, and for right now, the Tigres are right there.
Singleton a Singular Sensation For Diablos – The Diablos Rojos del Mexico have struggled out of the gate, falling below .500 last week and then climbing back to finish the weekend 5-4, but Jon Singleton is in midseason form. The former Houston Astro leads the LMB with six homers and 17 RBIs in just nine games – which means the majority of his base hits (he has 11 this season) have been homers.
On the Hot Seat – There’s no such thing as job security if you manage an LMB team Last season, 16 of the 20 managers who started the season didn’t make it to the end of the season. Two of those that did were Benji Gil of the Charros de Jalisco and Lorenzo Bundy of the Diablos Rojos del Mexico, who both led their teams to the Serie del Rey, with Bundy’s Diablos taking the LMB title in a sweep.
In Saltillo, the Saraperos are off to a 1-7 start under first-year manager Mendy Lopez. His mandate was to get the team in the playoffs, and while you can’t make the playoffs in the first 10 games of the season, you certainly can put yourself on the path to making or missing them. They’ve been outscored 45-33, Alberth Martinez leads the club with just five RBIs, have the second-fewest homers in the league with six, and power-hitter Chris Carter has just one RBI in three games. The good news for Saraperos fans is that the pitchers are doing relatively well: they have the 11th best ERA in the league (5.37) and have walked just 21 batters.