Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Baseball was featured at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, for the first time since the 2008 Summer Olympics.[1] Six national teams competed in the tournament: Israel, Japan (host), Mexico, South Korea, the United States, and the Dominican Republic.

Quick Facts Baseball at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, Venue ...
Baseball
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
VenueYokohama Stadium, Yokohama
Fukushima Azuma Stadium, Fukushima City
Dates28 July – 7 August 2021
No. of events1
Competitors144 from 6 nations
Teams6
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Dominican Republic
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Baseball/softball was one of five optional sports that were added to the programme of the 2020 Summer Olympics. It did not return in 2024 for the Paris Summer Olympics.[2] The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] As a result, the games were played behind closed doors.[4]

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Medalists

Qualification

Six national teams qualified for the Olympic baseball tournament. Japan automatically qualified, as the host nation. Israel qualified by winning the September 2019 Europe/Africa continental tournament.

Two teams qualified through the 2019 WBSC Premier12 tournament in November 2019. South Korea qualified as the best-placed team from the Asia/Oceania region (other than Japan, which already qualified as host), while Mexico qualified as the best-placed team from the Americas.

The United States qualified by winning the Americas Qualifying Event that was originally scheduled to take place in March 2020, but was postponed to May/June 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The final spot was awarded to the Dominican Republic which won a world Final Qualifying Tournament in late June 2021.[5]

More information Event, Dates ...
EventDatesLocation(s)Berth(s)Qualified
Host nation 1  Japan
Africa/Europe Qualifying Event 18–22 September 2019 Italy Bologna / Parma 1  Israel
2019 WBSC Premier12 2–17 November 2019 Japan Tokyo1 2  Mexico
 South Korea
Americas Qualifying Event 31 May–5 June 2021[6][7] United States Port St. Lucie / West Palm Beach 1  United States
Final Qualifying Tournament 22–26 June 2021[8] Mexico Puebla 1  Dominican Republic
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1 The WBSC Premier12 was played in Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and Taiwan, with the final in Tokyo.

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Competition schedule

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Legend
GSGroup stage KOKnock-out BBronze medal game FGold medal game
More information Wed 28, Thu 29 ...
Wed 28Thu 29Fri 30Sat 31Sun 1Mon 2Tue 3Wed 4Thu 5Fri 6Sat 7
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Team squads

Competition format

The small number of teams in the tournament resulted in an unusual competition format being adopted that featured 16 games. There was an opening group round-robin round, and a modified double-elimination bracket.[10]

For the group round, there were two pools of three teams each. Each team played the other two teams in its pool once. A total of six games were played in the group round.

In the knockout round, the first three games featured teams that each finished in the same position in their respective pools (A1 vs B1, A2 vs B2, A3 vs B3). The loser of the A3 vs. B3 game was eliminated (with only one loss in the elimination round, plus one or two in the group stage). After this, play continued in double-elimination format until there is one team left in each of the winners and losers brackets. Those two teams played in the gold medal game (a single game; the losers bracket representative does not need to beat the winners bracket representative twice). The last two teams eliminated from the losers bracket played in the bronze medal game. In total, 10 games are played in the knockout round:

  1. A3 vs B3 (loser eliminated)
  2. A2 vs B2
  3. Winner of #1 vs Winner of #2
  4. A1 vs B1
  5. Loser of #2 vs Loser of #3 (loser eliminated)
  6. Loser of #4 vs Winner of #5 (loser to bronze medal game)
  7. Winner of #3 vs Winner of #4 (winner to gold medal game)
  8. Loser of #7 vs Winner of #6 (winner to gold medal game, loser to bronze medal game)
  9. Bronze medal game: Loser of #6 vs Loser of #8
  10. Gold medal game: Winner of #7 vs. Winner of #8

Thus, the best two teams from group play face each other in the quarterfinals, with a possible rematch later in the tournament (including the gold medal game, if the winner also wins its next game and the loser wins its next two).

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Group stage

The schedule was announced on 28 June 2021.[11] Note that "Qualification" column represents positional seeding in the knockout stage, effective at the conclusion of the group stage.

All times are local (UTC+9).

Group A

More information Pos, Team ...
Pos Team Pld W L RF RA RD PCT GB Qualification
1  Japan (H) 2 2 0 11 7 +4 1.000 Round 2
2  Dominican Republic 2 1 1 4 4 0 .500 1 Round 1 game #2
3  Mexico 2 0 2 4 8 4 .000 2 Round 1 game #1
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Source: TOCOG and WBSC
(H) Hosts

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28 July 12:00 (JST)
Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium
Team123456789RHE
 Dominican Republic000000201380
 Japan000000103490
WP: Ryoji Kuribayashi (1–0)   LP: Jairo Asencio (0–1)
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More information Team, R ...
30 July 12:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team123456789RHE
 Mexico000000000040
 Dominican Republic00001000X160
WP: Ángel Sánchez (1–0)   LP: Teddy Stankiewicz (0–1)   Sv: Luis Felipe Castillo (1)
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More information Team, R ...
31 July 12:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team123456789RHE
 Japan0113001107100
 Mexico100100020472
WP: Masato Morishita (1–0)   LP: Juan Pablo Oramas (0–1)   Sv: Ryoji Kuribayashi (1)
Home runs:
JPN: Tetsuto Yamada (1), Hayato Sakamoto (1)
MEX: Joey Meneses (1)
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Group B

More information Pos, Team ...
Pos Team Pld W L RF RA RD PCT GB Qualification
1  United States 2 2 0 12 3 +9 1.000 Round 2
2  South Korea 2 1 1 8 9 1 .500 1 Round 1 game #2
3  Israel 2 0 2 6 14 8 .000 2 Round 1 game #1
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Source: TOCOG and WBSC

More information Team, R ...
29 July 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team12345678910RHE
 Israel0020020010570
 South Korea00020030016110
WP: Oh Seung-hwan (1–0)   LP: Jeremy Bleich (0–1)
Home runs:
ISR: Ian Kinsler (1), Ryan Lavarnway 2 (2)
KOR: Oh Ji-hwan (1), Lee Jung-hoo (1), Hyun-soo Kim (1)
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More information Team, R ...
30 July 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team123456789RHE
 United States0030012118110
 Israel000100000172
WP: Joe Ryan (1–0)   LP: Joey Wagman (0–1)
Home runs:
USA: Tyler Austin (1)
ISR: Danny Valencia (1)
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More information Team, R ...
31 July 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team123456789RHE
 South Korea100000001250
 United States00022000X460
WP: Nick Martinez (1–0)   LP: Ko Young-pyo (0–1)   Sv: David Robertson (1)
Home runs:
KOR: None
USA: Triston Casas (1), Nick Allen (1)
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Knockout stage

Bracket

Round 1

More information Team, R ...
1 August 12:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team123456789RHE
 Israel10500060012120
 Mexico004001000581
WP: Zack Weiss (1–0)   LP: Manny Barreda (0–1)
Home runs:
ISR: Danny Valencia (2)
MEX: None
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1 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team123456789RHE
 Dominican Republic100200000360
 South Korea1000000034121
WP: Oh Seung-hwan (2–0)   LP: Luis Felipe Castillo (0–1)
Home runs:
DOM: Juan Francisco (1)
KOR: None
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Round 2

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2 August 12:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team123456789RHE
 Israel0000100XX132
 South Korea (7)1200701XX11180
WP: Cho Sang-woo (1–0)   LP: Joey Wagman (0–2)
Home runs:
ISR: None
KOR: Oh Ji-hwan (2), Hyun-soo Kim (2)
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More information Team, R ...
2 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team12345678910RHE
 United States00033000006122
 Japan (10)00212000117120
WP: Ryoji Kuribayashi (2–0)   LP: Edwin Jackson (0–1)
Home runs:
USA: Triston Casas (2)
JPN: Seiya Suzuki (1)
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Round 1 repechage

More information Team, R ...
3 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team123456789RHE
 Israel000040020692
 Dominican Republic101002102791
WP: Luis Felipe Castillo (1–1)   LP: Zack Weiss (1–1)
Home runs:
ISR: Danny Valencia (3)
DOM: Jeison Guzman (1), Johan Mieses (1)
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Round 2 repechage

More information Team, R ...
4 August 12:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team123456789RHE
 Dominican Republic000000001150
 United States20001000X333
WP: Scott Kazmir (1–0)   LP: Denyi Reyes (0–1)   Sv: David Robertson (2)
Home runs:
DOM: Charlie Valerio (1)
USA: Triston Casas (3), Tyler Austin (2)
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Semifinals

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4 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team123456789RHE
 South Korea000002000271
 Japan00101003X591
WP: Hiromi Itoh (1–0)   LP: Go Woo-suk (0–1)   Sv: Ryoji Kuribayashi (2)
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More information Team, R ...
5 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team123456789RHE
 South Korea000010100270
 United States01010500X791
WP: Ryder Ryan (1–0)   LP: Lee Eui-lee (0–1)
Home runs:
KOR: None
USA: Jamie Westbrook (1)
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Bronze medal game

More information Team, R ...
7 August 12:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team123456789RHE
 Dominican Republic40001005010140
 South Korea0101400006130
WP: Cristopher Mercedes (1–0)   LP: Oh Seung-hwan (2–1)   Sv: Jumbo Díaz (1)
Home runs:
DOM: Juan Francisco (2), Julio Rodríguez (1), Johan Mieses (2)
KOR: Hyun-soo Kim (3)
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Gold medal game

More information Team, R ...
7 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team123456789RHE
 United States000000000061
 Japan00100001X280
WP: Masato Morishita (2–0)   LP: Nick Martinez (1–1)   Sv: Ryoji Kuribayashi (3)
Home runs:
USA: None
JPN: Munetaka Murakami (1)
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Final standings

More information Place, Team ...
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All-Olympic team

Selected by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC).[12]

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See also

References

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