Los Diablos Rojos del Mexico (English: Mexico City Red Devils) is a baseball team in the Mexican League based in Mexico City, D. F., Mexico. The team was founded in 1940 by Salvador Lutteroth and Ernesto Carmona. The team struggled until the mid-1950s. They won sixteen league championships between 1956 and 2014, including back-to-back championships three times, and several more division championships. The team has an affiliate, the Diablos de Hermosillo of the Liga Norte de Mexico. The Diablos Rojos have a rivalry with the Tigres de Quintana Roo.

The Reds of Mexico, as they were known at first, were founded in 1940 by Salvador Lutteroth and the famous manager Ernesto Carmona. The Reds greatest rival was the best team in the league that season, the Blues of Veracruz. During the first two seasons, they remained one of the top teams, in second place, but after this and up until 1945 they fell far behind in the standings. In 1946 and 1947 and runners retested. The last two campaigns of the decade passed unnoticed.

During the 1942 season, on April 23, the Reds were losing 13-7 in the ninth and final inning, until the Capital players began to fight back, scoring another 7 runs and beating their rivals, it was this moment when Basilio 'Brujo' Rosell exclaimed that "these Reds play like devils."

Mediocrity was a characteristic of the team during the first half of the decade. It was not until 1955 when El Mexico, as called by the media, would become a dominant team in the league, finishing behind only the Tigres Capitalinos and Nuevo Laredo that season. It was also this year when the legendary Parque del Seguro Social (Social Security Park), with a capacity of 30,000, was opened, with an inaugural match between the Mexico Diablos and the Monterrey Sultanes, with an 18-14 victory for the Diablos.

The following season, 1956, the Diablos hired Cuban Lazaro Salazar as manager. With him, the red team finally got their first pennant, beating their crosstown nemesis, the Tigers Capitalinos, who finished second.

After that, for the third time in their history, El Mexico finished as runner up on back to back years, 1957 and 1958.

These days the team was sold to a group of shareholders. The 1963 team earned second place in the preamble of the 2 would get title to the capital, this time under the command of Thomas Henderson and against the Tigers in the game of the coronation. In 1966 the team had a great season finale, but could not prevent the bi-championship bitter rival, the Tigers. The campaign of 1968 was very special, because in preseason team defeated the great New York Yankees in the park and ended Social Security getting their third title, above the Veracruz Red Eagle.

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