Host country Mexico¡¯s Charros de Jalisco completed its dominance of the round-robin elimination stage of the 67th Caribbean Series on Monday night with a 7-2 win over Japan Breeze, the first team to represent Japan in the tournament. At 4-0, Benji Gil¡¯s club clinched the No. 1 seed in Wednesday¡¯s semifinals, and with an off-day Tuesday, Mexico will have starter David Reyes (seven innings, one run in Friday¡¯s opener against Puerto Rico) and a rested bullpen ready to go in the knockout stage.

The rest of the field, however, is yet to be determined. Tuesday¡¯s action, with the last two games of the elimination stage at Nido de las ?guilas Stadium in Mexicali, will determine the remaining semifinal seeding and could also have a win-or-go-home scenario in the second contest.

The first game will be Indios de Mayag¨¹ez (Puerto Rico) vs. Leones del Escogido (Dominican Republic) at 5 p.m. ET. The Dominican club managed by Albert Pujols has already punched its ticket to the semifinal round with a 2-1 record in its first three contests.

The Puerto Rican squad, however, still needs a win on Tuesday to clinch a spot after dropping two of its first three games. If Wil Cordero¡¯s club were to defeat the Dominican Republic and qualify for the next round with a record of 2-2 in the elimination stage, Tuesday¡¯s second contest, between Japan Breeze and Cardenales de Lara (Venezuela) at 10 p.m., would then determine the last seed in the semifinals.

Henry Blanco¡¯s Venezuelan club comes into Tuesday¡¯s action at 1-2, while at 0-3, the Japanese representative skippered by Alex Ram¨ªrez would clinch a semifinal spot by virtue of a win over Cardenales and an identical 1-3 record, with a tiebreaker advantage in head-to-head competition.

But if the Mayag¨¹ez team were to lose Tuesday¡¯s first contest, the last semifinal spot would be less clear in its clinching scenarios: A Venezuela victory would mean it would qualify outright with a 2-2 mark, with Puerto Rico also advancing at 1-3 and Japan eliminated at 0-4. If, however, a Japan Breeze win were to create a three-way tie for third and fourth place in the final standings with each team at 1-3, a Team Quality Balance formula would be used to determine the last two semifinal teams.