Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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Baseball
at the Games of the Olympiad
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Venue Yokohama Stadium, Yokohama
Fukushima Azuma Stadium, Fukushima City
Dates 28 July – 7 August 2021
No. of events 1
Teams 6
Medalists
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1st  Japan
2nd  United States
3rd  Dominican Republic
← 2008
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Qualification men
Tournament men
Rosters men
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Qualification women
Tournament women
Rosters women

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.

Baseball/softball was one of five sports that were added to the programme of the 2020 Summer Olympics only. It will not return in 2024.[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]

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
 Japan (JPN)
Kōyō Aoyagi
Suguru Iwazaki
Masato Morishita
Hiromi Itoh
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Masahiro Tanaka
Yasuaki Yamasaki
Ryoji Kuribayashi
Yūdai Ōno
Kodai Senga
Kaima Taira
Ryutaro Umeno
Takuya Kai
Tetsuto Yamada
Sōsuke Genda
Hideto Asamura
Ryosuke Kikuchi
Hayato Sakamoto
Munetaka Murakami
Kensuke Kondo
Yuki Yanagita
Ryoya Kurihara
Masataka Yoshida
Seiya Suzuki		  United States (USA)
Shane Baz
Anthony Carter
Brandon Dickson
Anthony Gose
Edwin Jackson
Scott Kazmir
Nick Martinez
Scott McGough
David Robertson
Joe Ryan
Ryder Ryan
Simeon Woods Richardson
Tim Federowicz
Mark Kolozsvary
Nick Allen
Eddy Alvarez
Triston Casas
Todd Frazier
Jamie Westbrook
Tyler Austin
Eric Filia
Patrick Kivlehan
Jack López
Bubba Starling		  Dominican Republic (DOM)
Darío Álvarez
Gabriel Arias
Jairo Asencio
Luis Felipe Castillo
Jumbo Díaz
Junior García
Jhan Mariñez
Cristopher Mercedes
Denyi Reyes
Ramón Rosso
Ángel Sánchez
Raúl Valdés
Roldani Baldwin
Charlie Valerio
José Bautista
Juan Francisco
Jeison Guzmán
Erick Mejia
Gustavo Núñez
Emilio Bonifácio
Melky Cabrera
Johan Mieses
Yefri Pérez
Julio Rodríguez

Qualification

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Main article: Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Six national teams qualified for the Olympic baseball tournament. The sport is under the auspices of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). Japan automatically qualified, as Japan is 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]


Event Dates Location(s) Berth(s) Qualified
Host nation N/A N/A 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
Total 6

1 The WBSC Premier12 was played in Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and Taiwan, with the final in Tokyo.

Competition schedule

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Legend


GS Group stage KO Knock-out B Bronze medal game F Gold medal game
Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 31 Sun 1 Mon 2 Tue 3 Wed 4 Thu 5 Fri 6 Sat 7
GS KO B F

Team squads

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Main article: Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Team squads

Competition format

The small number of teams in the tournament resulted in an unusual competition format being adopted that will feature 16 games. There will be 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).

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

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28 July 12:00 (JST)
Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
 Dominican Republic 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 8 0
 Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 9 0
WP: Ryoji Kuribayashi (1–0)   LP: Jairo Asencio (0–1)
Boxscore
30 July 12:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
 Mexico 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
 Dominican Republic 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 X 1 6 0
WP: Ángel Sánchez (1–0)   LP: Teddy Stankiewicz (0–1)   Sv: Luis Felipe Castillo (1)
Boxscore
31 July 12:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
 Japan 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 0 7 10 0
 Mexico 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 4 7 2
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)
Boxscore

Group B

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29 July 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
 Israel 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 5 7 0
 South Korea 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 1 6 11 0
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)
Boxscore
30 July 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
 United States 0 0 3 0 0 1 2 1 1 8 11 0
 Israel 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 2
WP: Joe Ryan (1–0)   LP: Joey Wagman (0–1)
Home runs:
USA: Tyler Austin (1)
ISR: Danny Valencia (1)
Boxscore
31 July 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
 South Korea 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 0
 United States 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 X 4 6 0
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)
Boxscore

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
 Round 1 Round 2 Semifinals Gold medal game
 
                            
 
 #1
 
 
  Israel 12
 
 #3
 
  Mexico 5
 
  Israel 1
 
 #2
 
  South Korea (7) 11
 
  Dominican Republic 3
 
 #7
 
  South Korea 4
 
  South Korea 2
 
 
  Japan 5
 
 
 #4
 
 
  United States 6
 
 
  Japan (10) 7
 
 
 #10
 
 
  Japan 2
 
 #5 (Round 1 repechage)
 
  United States 0
 
  Israel 6
 
 #6 (Round 2 repechage)
 
  Dominican Republic 7
 
  Dominican Republic 1
 
 
 United States 3
 
 
 #8
 
 
  United States 7
 
 
  South Korea 2 Bronze medal game
 
 
 #9
 
 
  Dominican Republic 10
 
 
  South Korea 6
 
 
 
 

Round 1

1 August 12:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
 Israel 1 0 5 0 0 0 6 0 0 12 12 0
 Mexico 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 8 1
WP: Zack Weiss (1–0)   LP: Manny Barreda (0–1)
Home runs:
ISR: Danny Valencia (2)
MEX: None
Boxscore
1 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
 Dominican Republic 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 0
 South Korea 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 12 1
WP: Oh Seung-hwan (2–0)   LP: Luis Felipe Castillo (0–1)
Home runs:
DOM: Juan Francisco (1)
KOR: None
Boxscore

Round 2

2 August 12:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
 Israel 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 X X 1 3 2
 South Korea (7) 1 2 0 0 7 0 1 X X 11 18 0
WP: Cho Sang-woo (1–0)   LP: Joey Wagman (0–2)
Home runs:
ISR: None
KOR: Oh Ji-hwan (2), Hyun-soo Kim (2)
Boxscore
2 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
 United States 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 6 12 2
 Japan (10) 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 7 12 0
WP: Ryoji Kuribayashi (2–0)   LP: Edwin Jackson (0–1)
Home runs:
USA: Triston Casas (2)
JPN: Seiya Suzuki (1)
Boxscore

Round 1 repechage

3 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
 Israel 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 6 9 2
 Dominican Republic 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 2 7 9 1
WP: Luis Felipe Castillo (1–1)   LP: Zack Weiss (1–1)
Home runs:
ISR: Danny Valencia (3)
DOM: Jeison Guzman (1), Johan Mieses (1)
Boxscore

Round 2 repechage

4 August 12:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
 Dominican Republic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 0
 United States 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 X 3 3 3
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)
Boxscore

Semifinals

4 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
 South Korea 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 7 1
 Japan 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 X 5 9 1
WP: Hiromi Itoh (1–0)   LP: Go Woo-suk (0–1)   Sv: Ryoji Kuribayashi (2)
Boxscore
5 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
 South Korea 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 7 0
 United States 0 1 0 1 0 5 0 0 X 7 9 1
WP: Ryder Ryan (1–0)   LP: Lee Eui-lee (0–1)
Home runs:
KOR: None
USA: Jamie Westbrook (1)
Boxscore

Bronze medal game

7 August 12:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
 Dominican Republic 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 10 14 0
 South Korea 0 1 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 6 13 0
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)
Boxscore

Gold medal game

7 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
 United States 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1
 Japan 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 X 2 8 0
WP: Masato Morishita (2–0)   LP: Nick Martinez (1–1)   Sv: Ryoji Kuribayashi (3)
Home runs:
USA: None
JPN: Munetaka Murakami (1)
Boxscore

Final standings

All-Olympic team

Awards Awarded player Affiliation team
MVP Award Japan Tetsuto Yamada Japan Japan / Japan Tokyo Yakult Swallows
Best Defensive Player Honours United States Nick Allen United States United States /United States Midland RockHounds (Oakland Athletics organization)
Tokyo 2020
All-Olympic
Baseball Team		 Pitcher (Right) Japan Yoshinobu Yamamoto Japan Japan /Japan Orix Buffaloes
Pitcher (Left) United States Anthony Gose United States United States /United States Columbus Clippers (Cleveland Indians organization)
Catcher Japan Takuya Kai Japan Japan /Japan Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
First baseman United States Triston Casas United States United States /United States Portland Sea Dogs (Boston Red Sox organization)
Second baseman United States Eddy Alvarez United States United States /United States Jupiter Hammerheads (Miami Marlins organization)
Third baseman Dominican Republic Erick Mejia Dominican RepublicDominican Republic /United States Omaha Storm Chasers (Kansas City Royals organization)
Shortstop Japan Hayato Sakamoto Japan Japan /Japan Yomiuri Giants
Left fielder South Korea Hyun-soo Kim South Korea South Korea / South Korea LG Twins
Center fielder South Korea Park Hae-min South Korea South Korea /South Korea Samsung Lions
Right fielder Israel Mitch Glasser Israel Israel /United States Sioux Falls Canaries
Designated hitter United States Tyler Austin United States United States /Japan Yokohama DeNA BayStars

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

See also

References

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External links

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