lit a candle 11h agoMy dad called me about this, said it was all over the news back home. I didn't know much about Mexican League baseball but he always talked about that no-hitter against Mexicali like it was yesterday. 57 years old, shot while just trying to drive people around. Awful.
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Enrique Quiñones Garzón was a Mexican professional baseball pitcher who spent almost two decades in the Mexican League and the Mexican Pacific League, and who is remembered above all as the first pitcher in the history of the Tomateros de Culiacán to throw a no-hitter. He was killed in an…
Enrique Quiñones Garzón was a Mexican professional baseball pitcher who spent almost two decades in the Mexican League and the Mexican Pacific League, and who is remembered above all as the first pitcher in the history of the Tomateros de Culiacán to throw a no-hitter. He was killed in an armed attack in Villa Unión, south of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, on Saturday 7 November 2026, aged 57.
He was born on 30 October 1969 in Mazatlán and came from La Tuna, a small community on the road to El Recodo, south of the city. A right-handed pitcher, he played professionally from 1988 to 2007, working both as a starter and as a reliever.
In the summer Mexican League he pitched for the Rieleros de Aguascalientes, Sultanes de Monterrey, Leones de Yucatán, Broncos de Reynosa, Tuneros de San Luis Potosí and Dorados de Chihuahua, finishing with a record of 39 wins and 63 losses. In the winter Mexican Pacific League he became part of the history of the Tomateros de Culiacán. On 21 November 2000, during the 2000 to 2001 season, he held the Águilas de Mexicali without a hit in a 1-0 win, the first no-hitter ever thrown for the franchise.
After his playing days he stayed in the game as a coach. In the 2014 to 2015 season he returned to the Tomateros as pitching coach on the staff led by manager Benjamín Gil. In his later years he worked as a driver for a ride-hailing app.
According to reports in El Financiero, La Jornada and UnoTV, he was standing beside his white car in Villa Unión when gunmen in another vehicle opened fire on him. Soldiers, the National Guard and state police secured the scene, and the Sinaloa state prosecutor's office opened a homicide investigation. No arrests or motive had been reported. The Mexican Pacific League published a message of condolence, saying it joined the grief of his family and friends.
His death drew wide coverage in Mexico, where he was recalled as a durable, well travelled pitcher and as the man who gave Culiacán's famous winter club its first no-hitter, a feat still mentioned whenever the history of the Tomateros is told.
Biography adapted from El Financiero (7 November 2026); La Jornada (Irene Sánchez and Juan Adrián Simental, 8 November 2026); UnoTV (J.L. Márquez, 7 November 2026); Reforma (Benito Jiménez, 7 November 2026).
Photos
1Enrique Quiñones with a Tomateros de Culiacán jersey
by People Forever
Same here, my uncle in Culiacan still talks about that game from 2000.