Overview
- Olmecas de Tabasco reached the Zona Sur Serie de Campeonato after Alan Espinoza hit a 13th-inning, two-run walk-off home run to beat Guerreros de Oaxaca in a winner-take-all Game 7 that lasted about 4 hours 40 minutes.
- The Sur final between Olmecas and Pericos de Puebla began in Villahermosa on August 29 and Pericos took a 5-1 Game 1 lead after a four-run seventh inning, with Hunter McMahon credited with the win and Nolan Blackwood the loss.
- Tabasco finished the 2026 regular season 54-38 as the Zona Sur’s No. 2 seed, positioning the club to use home pitching and the low-offense Centenario park as tactical advantages in the series.
- The extra-inning Game 7 was played before a sellout crowd of 7,923 and used many pitchers, leaving Tabasco’s bullpen taxed and likely to require short-turn roster and rotation management for the next games.
- The winner of Olmecas vs Pericos will face the Zona Norte champion—either Toros de Tijuana or Sultanes de Monterrey—in the Serie del Rey, with Tabasco seeking its first return to the national final since its 1993 title run.