<Tr> <Th> Official website </Th> <Td> lidom.com </Td> </Tr> <P> The Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (Spanish: Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana) or LIDOM by its acronym in Spanish, is a winter professional baseball league consisting of six teams spread across the Dominican Republic; it is the highest level of professional baseball league in the Dominican Republic . The league's players include many prospects that go on to play in Major League Baseball in the United States while also signing many current MLB veterans . The champion of LIDOM advances to play in the yearly Caribbean Series . </P> <P> Each team plays a fifty - game round - robin schedule that begins at the middle of October and runs to the end of December . The top four teams engage in another round - robin schedule with 18 games per team from the end of December to the end of January; the top two teams in those standings then play a best - of - nine series for the national title . The league's champion advances to the Caribbean Series to play against the representatives from Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba and Puerto Rico . </P> <P> The current champion of LIDOM are the Tigres del Licey, who won the National Championship nine - game Series (5 - 4) versus theirs opponents Águilas Cibaeñas . </P>

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