The 25th Cuban National Series

Cuban National Series

The Cuban National Series is the primary domestic amateur baseball competition in Cuba. Formed after the dissolution of the Cuban League in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, the Series is a part of the Cuban national baseball system.-League structure:...

 was the first to feature four-team-playoffs with the first- and second-place teams from each of the new Western and Eastern zones.

Four teams qualified for the playoffs: Industriales

Industriales

Industriales is a baseball team in the Cuban National Series. One of the two teams based in the city of Havana, Industriales is historically the most successful team in the National Series, the main domestic competition in post-revolutionary Cuban baseball...

, Vegueros, Santiago de Cuba and Villa Clara. Industriales went undefeated in the round-robin

Round-robin

The term round-robin was originally used to describe a document signed by multiple parties in a circle to make it more difficult to determine the order in which it was signed, thus preventing a ringleader from being identified...

 tournament, earning their sixth National Series title.

Western zone

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB Games behind In sports, the phrase games behind or games back , is a common way to reflect the gap between a leading team and another team in a sports league, conference, or division...
Industriales Industriales Industriales is a baseball team in the Cuban National Series. One of the two teams based in the city of Havana, Industriales is historically the most successful team in the National Series, the main domestic competition in post-revolutionary Cuban baseball...	37	11	.770	-
Vegueros	33	15	.600	4
Henequeneros	33	15	.600	4
Citricultores	26	22	.542	11
Metropolitanos Metropolitanos The Metropolitanos of Havana was a baseball team in the Cuban National Series. The Metros, also known as the Guerreros , has historically been a poor team, though it is ostensibly the heir to the Habana teams of the pre-revolutionary Cuban League....	21	26	.446	15½
La Habana	18	30	.375	19
Forestales	18	30	.375	19
Cienfuegos	15	32	.319	21½
Isla de la Juventud	14	34	.291	23

Eastern zone

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB Games behind In sports, the phrase games behind or games back , is a common way to reflect the gap between a leading team and another team in a sports league, conference, or division...
Villa Clara	35	13	.729	-
Santiago de Cuba	34	14	.708	1
Camagüey	32	16	.666	3
Ciego de Ávila	24	24	.500	11
Granma	21	27	.438	14
Sancti Spíritus	21	27	.438	14
Guantánamo	19	29	.395	16
Las Tunas	16	32	.333	19
Holguín	14	34	.291	21

Playoffs

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB Games behind In sports, the phrase games behind or games back , is a common way to reflect the gap between a leading team and another team in a sports league, conference, or division...
Industriales Industriales Industriales is a baseball team in the Cuban National Series. One of the two teams based in the city of Havana, Industriales is historically the most successful team in the National Series, the main domestic competition in post-revolutionary Cuban baseball...	6	0	1.000	-
Vegueros	4	2	.667	2
Santiago de Cuba	1	5	.167	5
Villa Clara	1	5	.167	5

External links

• http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/eventos/49serie/z-series.html