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.

Tigres de Chinandega
Team logo Cap insignia
Information
LeagueNicaraguan Professional Baseball League
LocationChinandega, Nicaragua
BallparkEstadio Efraín Tijerino
League championships4 (2005–06, 2012–13, 2016–17, 2017–18)
Latin American Series championships2 (2017, 2018)
ColorsBlue, gold, white, black
       

The team has also won two championships while playing in the Nicaraguan amateur baseball league, the Germán Pomares Ordóñez First Division (Spanish: Campeonato Nacional de Béisbol Superior Germán Pomares Ordoñez), 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

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Year Venue Finish Wins Losses Win% Manager
2013   Veracruz 2nd 3 1 .750   Germán Mesa
2017   Montería 1st 3 1 .750   Len Picota
2018   Managua 1st 4 0 1.000   Len Picota
Total 9 2 .818

References

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  1. ^ TIGRES DE CHINANDEGA DE NICARAGUA CAMPEÓN DE LA SERIE LATINOAMERICANA 2017.
  2. ^ "Nicaragua y México a la final". Archived from the original on 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  3. ^ "Estadísticas Finales Etapa Clasificatoria al 28 de enero 2018" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-30. Retrieved 2019-01-27.