The Tomateros de Culiacán (Culiacán Tomato Growers) are a baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 team in the Mexican Pacific League

Liga Mexicana del Pacífico

The Mexican Pacific League is a winter minor baseball league in Mexico. The eight-team league's regular season runs from October to December and is followed by a playoff series in January to determine the league champion...

. Based in Culiacán

Culiacán

Culiacán is a city in northwestern Mexico, the largest city in the state of Sinaloa as well as its capital and capital of the municipality of Culiacán. With 675,773 inhabitants in the city , and 858,638 in the municipality, it is the largest city in the state of Sinaloa...

, the Tomateros have won nine domestic titles and two Caribbean World Series

Caribbean World Series

The Caribbean Series , also called the Caribbean World Series is the highest baseball tournament at club level in Latin America. The league winners from the Winter Leagues of Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela participate in the tournament...

, in and in . The team was founded in 1965 as part of the Sonora-Sinaloa League.

2001-2002 Season

The 2001-2002 season was a gold year not only for the Tomateros but also for México, they conquered the 2002 Caribbean World Series in Caracas, Venezuela with many MLB Mexicans players like Rodrigo López, Oliver Perez

Oliver Pérez

Óliver Pérez Martínez is a left-handed pitcher currently in the Washington Nationals organization.-San Diego Padres:...

, Luis Ayala

Luis Ayala

Luis Ignacio Ayala is a Major League Baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He is 6' 2" and weighs 190 lbs. and bats and throws right-handed.-Mexican League:...

, José Silva

José Silva (baseball)

José Leonel Silva is a right-handed pitcher. He currently plays for the Dorados de Chihuahua of the Mexican League...

, Benji Gil

Benji Gil

Romar Benjamin Gil Aguilar is a former Major League Baseball utility player.Gil made his Major League Baseball debut with the Texas Rangers on April 5, 1993...

 and Adan Amezcua who was named Most Valuable Player.

Notable players

• Aurelio López
  Aurelio López
  Aurelio Alejandro López was a Mexican relief pitcher. Over the course of an eleven year Major League career , he acquired the nickname "Señor Smoke" in Detroit due to his Mexican heritage and his overpowering fastball, which had been measured as high as 93 mph.-Early career:Born in Tecamachalco,...
  
  
• Salomé Barojas
  Salomé Barojas
  Salomé Barojas Romero is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox, Seattle Mariners, and Philadelphia Phillies from to ....
  
  
• José Silva
  José Silva (baseball)
  José Leonel Silva is a right-handed pitcher. He currently plays for the Dorados de Chihuahua of the Mexican League...
  
  
• Sid Monge
  Sid Monge
  Isidro "Sid" Monge Pedroza is a retired Major League Baseball relief pitcher with a ten-year career from 1975 to 1984...
  
  
• Vicente Romo
  Vicente Romo
  Vicente Romo Navarro , nicknamed "Huevo" , is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. From through , Romo played for the Cleveland Indians , Boston Red Sox , Chicago White Sox , San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers...
  
  
• Óliver Pérez
  Oliver Pérez
  Óliver Pérez Martínez is a left-handed pitcher currently in the Washington Nationals organization.-San Diego Padres:...
  
  
• Ricardo Rincón
  Ricardo Rincón
  Ricardo Rincón Espinoza was a Major League Baseball relief pitcher.Rincón was a left-handed specialist who spent nearly his entire career as a middle reliever and setup pitcher. In his 10-year career, Rincón never started a game and only accumulated 21 saves...
  
  
• Luis Ayala
  Luis Ayala
  Luis Ignacio Ayala is a Major League Baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He is 6' 2" and weighs 190 lbs. and bats and throws right-handed.-Mexican League:...
  
  
• Benji Gil
  Benji Gil
  Romar Benjamin Gil Aguilar is a former Major League Baseball utility player.Gil made his Major League Baseball debut with the Texas Rangers on April 5, 1993...
  
  
• Rodrigo López
• Francisco Estrada
  Francisco Estrada
  Francisco "Paquín" Estrada Soto is a former Major League Baseball player for the New York Mets. Estrada, a catcher, appeared in one game for the Mets in . Estrada is the current manager of the Chihuahua Dorados in the Mexican League , Hermosillo Naranjeros in the Mexican Pacific League...
  
  
• Rigo Beltrán
  Rigo Beltrán
  Rigoberto Beltrán is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher who is currently the pitching coach for the Single-A Dayton Dragons in the Cincinnati Reds organization. He attended high school in San Diego. and is an alumnus of the University of Wyoming.Drafted by the St...
  
  
• Esteban Loaiza
  Esteban Loaiza
  Esteban Antonio Loaiza Veyna [lo-EYE-sa] is a former Major League Baseball pitcher...
  
  
• Karim García
  Karim García
  Gustavo Karim García Aguayo is an outfielder with the Hanhwa Eagles of the Korean Baseball Organization. García bats and throws left-handed, and has been nicknamed "The Latino Bambino."-Early years:...