2019 European Baseball Championship

The 2019 European Baseball Championship was an international baseball tournament organized by the Confederation of European Baseball. The 2019 Championship was held September 7–15, 2019, in Bonn and Solingen, Germany.

2019 European Baseball Championship

Tournament details
Country	Germany
Dates	7–15 September 2019
Teams	12
Final positions
Champions	Netherlands (23rd title)
Runner-up	Italy
Third place	Spain
Fourth place	Israel
Tournament statistics
Games played	47
Attendance	21,653 (461 per game)
Awards
MVP	Ademar Rifaela
← 2016 2021 →

The tournament contributed towards qualification to the 2020 Summer Olympics, with the top five teams and Team South Africa competing at the European-African qualifier for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which was played in September 2019 in Bologna and Parma, Italy.^[1]

Qualification

Main article: 2019 European Baseball Championship – Qualification

Main article: 2019 European Baseball Championship - B-Pool

The top 10 teams of the 2016 European Championship qualified automatically for the tournament. Two additional teams, Austria and Israel, qualified from the 14-team B-Pool tournament.

Pool Bonn		Pool Solingen
Belgium	6th, 2016 European Baseball Championship	Italy	2016 European Baseball Championship
Croatia	10th, 2016 European Baseball Championship	Netherlands	2016 European Baseball Championship
Czech Republic	5th, 2016 European Baseball Championship	Spain	2016 European Baseball Championship
France	7th, 2016 European Baseball Championship	Sweden	8th, 2016 European Baseball Championship
Germany	4th, 2016 European Baseball Championship	Austria	Winner of Belgrade group and 2018 playoff series against  Lithuania
Great Britain	9th, 2016 European Baseball Championship	Israel	Winner of Blagoevgrad Group and 2019 playoff series against  Lithuania

Round 1

Pool A

Standings

	Qualified for Quarterfinals
	Qualified for Relegation Round

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
Netherlands	4	1	.800	–	46	15
Israel	4	1	.800	–	25	23
Czech Republic	3	2	.600	1.0	32	25
Germany	2	3	.400	2.0	19	23
Great Britain	2	3	.400	2.0	23	28
Sweden	0	5	.000	4.0	14	45

September 7, 2019	Czech Republic	1 – 6	Israel	Baseballpark Weyersberg, Solingen Attendance: 150
		Boxscore

September 7, 2019	Sweden	1 – 9	Germany	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 1,900
		Boxscore

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September 8, 2019	Israel	4 – 3	Sweden	Baseballpark Weyersberg, Solingen Attendance: 150
		Boxscore

September 8, 2019	Netherlands	6 – 8	Czech Republic	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 1,200
		Boxscore

September 8, 2019	Germany	1 – 0	Great Britain	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 1,350
		Boxscore

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September 9, 2019	Czech Republic	3 – 4 (10)	Great Britain	Baseballpark Weyersberg, Solingen Attendance: 150
		Boxscore

September 9, 2019	Netherlands	9 – 0	Sweden	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 300
		Boxscore

September 9, 2019	Germany	2 – 4 (10)	Israel	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 500
		Boxscore

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September 10, 2019	Great Britain	4 – 7	Israel	Baseballpark Weyersberg, Solingen Attendance: 150
		Boxscore

September 10, 2019	Czech Republic	10 – 30	Sweden	Baseballpark Weyersberg, Solingen Attendance: 150
		Boxscore

September 10, 2019	Netherlands	8 – 1	Germany	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 1,100
		Boxscore

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September 11, 2019	Sweden	07 – 13	Great Britain	Bonn 2, Bonn Attendance: 50
		Boxscore

September 11, 2019	Israel	04 – 13	Netherlands	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 250
		Boxscore

September 11, 2019	Great Britain	02 – 101	Netherlands	Bonn 2, Bonn Attendance: 150
		Boxscore

September 11, 2019	Germany	06 – 10	Czech Republic	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 700
		Boxscore

¹ game suspended on September 7, 2019, in the 9th due to darkness (Ned led 10 – 2).

Pool B

Standings

	Qualified for Quarterfinals
	Qualified for Relegation Round

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
Italy	5	0	1.000	–	52	11
Spain	4	1	.800	1.0	44	24
France	3	2	.600	2.0	52	30
Belgium	2	3	.400	3.0	25	43
Austria	1	4	.200	4.0	21	47
Croatia	0	5	.000	5.0	10	49

September 7, 2019	Croatia	2 – 3	Spain	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 425
		Boxscore

September 7, 2019	Belgium	5 – 1	Austria	Bonn 2, Bonn Attendance: 198
		Boxscore

September 7, 2019	France	02 – 16	Italy	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 850
		Boxscore

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September 8, 2019	Spain	13 – 50	Belgium	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 300
		Boxscore

September 8, 2019	Austria	06 – 12	France	Bonn 2, Bonn Attendance: 100
		Boxscore

September 8, 2019	Italy	2 – 1 (10)	Croatia	Baseballpark Weyersberg, Solingen Attendance: 150
		Boxscore

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September 9, 2019	Italy	10 – 10	Austria	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 100
		Boxscore

September 9, 2019	Belgium	9 – 6	Croatia	Bonn 2, Bonn Attendance: 100
		Boxscore

September 9, 2019	Spain	6 – 3	France	Baseballpark Weyersberg, Solingen Attendance: 150
		Boxscore

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September 10, 2019	Belgium	02 – 12 (8)	France	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 80
		Boxscore

September 10, 2019	Croatia	01 – 12 (7)	Austria	Bonn 2, Bonn Attendance: 60
		Boxscore

September 10, 2019	Spain	03 – 13	Italy	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 250
		Boxscore

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September 11, 2019	Italy	11 – 40	Belgium	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 80
		Boxscore

September 11, 2019	Austria	01 – 19 (6)	Spain	Baseballpark Weyersberg, Solingen Attendance: 150
		Boxscore

September 11, 2019	France	23 – 00 (5)	Croatia	Baseballpark Weyersberg, Solingen Attendance: 150
		Boxscore

Play-offs

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	September 13 11:00 - Bonn 1
	Israel	8
					September 14 19:00 - Bonn 1
	France	2
					Israel	6
	September 13 19:00 - Bonn 1
					Italy	7
	Italy	7
									September 15 19:00 - Bonn 1
	Germany	5
									Italy	1
	September 13 15:00 - Bonn 1
									Netherlands	5
	Netherlands	17
					September 14 15:00 - Bonn 1
	Belgium	2
					Netherlands	1
	September 13 16:00 - Solingen
					Spain	0			3rd Place
	Spain	5
									September 15 15:00 - Bonn 1
	Czech Republic	4
									Spain	16
									Israel	11

Quarterfinals

Order of games can change after round robin

September 13, 2019 11:00	Israel	8 – 2	France	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 200
		Boxscore

September 13, 2019 15:00	Netherlands	17 – 20 (5)	Belgium	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 350
		Boxscore

September 13, 2019 16:00	Spain	5 – 4 (10)	Czech Republic	Baseballpark Weyersberg, Solingen Attendance: 150
		Boxscore

September 13, 2019 19:00	Italy	7 – 5	Germany	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 1,000
		Boxscore

Semifinals

September 14, 2019 15:00	Netherlands	1 – 0	Spain	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 900
		Boxscore

September 14, 2019 19:00	Israel	6 – 7	Italy	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 1,000
		Boxscore

Bronze

September 15, 2019 15:00	Spain	16 – 11	Israel	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 1,200
		Boxscore

Final

September 15, 2019 19:00	Italy	1 – 5	Netherlands	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 2,000
		Boxscore

Placement Round 5th–8th place

	Placement round				5th Place
	September 14 11:00 - Bonn 2
	Czech Republic	5
					September 15 11:00 - Bonn 1
	Belgium	4
					Czech Republic	4
	September 14 11:00 - Bonn 1
					Germany	3
	France	4
	Germany	14

Classification Games

September 14, 2019 11:00	Czech Republic	5 – 4	Belgium	Bonn 2, Bonn Attendance: 80
		Boxscore

September 14, 2019 11:00	France	04 – 14 (7)	Germany	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 800
		Boxscore

5th place

September 15, 2019 11:00	Czech Republic	4 – 3	Germany	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 1,900
		Boxscore

Note: There was no game for 7th place.

Placement Round 9th–12th Place / Relegation Round

There was a scheduling mistake in this placement/relegation round: the first two games, it should have been A5-B6 and B5-A6, instead it was A5-B5 and A6-B6.

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

9th place

B5

Austria

6

A5

Great Britain

1

W1

Austria

10

Winner's bracket

W2

Croatia

0

A6

Sweden

2

B6

Croatia

17

W3

Austria

9

W5

Great Britain

11

L1

Great Britain

12

L2

Sweden

2

L3

Croatia

1

Loser's bracket

W4

Great Britain

5

Relegation round

September 12, 2019 11:00	Austria	6 – 1	Great Britain	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 100
		Boxscore

September 12, 2019 15:00	Croatia	17 – 20 (6)	Sweden	Bonn 1, Bonn Attendance: 100
		Boxscore

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September 13, 2019 12:30	Great Britain	12 – 20 (8)	Sweden	Baseballpark Weyersberg, Solingen Attendance: 80
		Boxscore

The loser of the above game is in 12th place and is relegated.

September 13, 2019 13:00	Austria	10 – 00 (7)	Croatia	Bonn 2, Bonn Attendance: 100
		Boxscore

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September 14, 2019 12:30	Croatia	1 – 5	Great Britain	Baseballpark Weyersberg, Solingen Attendance: 150
		Boxscore

The loser of the above game is in 11th place and is relegated.

9th place

September 15, 2019 12:30	Austria	09 – 11	Great Britain	Baseballpark Weyersberg, Solingen Attendance: 150
		Boxscore

Final standings

Rk	Team	W	L	Pct.	R	RA	Note
	Netherlands	7	1	.875	69	18	Qualified for Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification
	Italy	7	1	.875	67	27
	Spain	6	2	.750	65	40
4	Israel	5	3	.625	50	48
5	Czech Republic	5	3	.625	45	37
6	Germany	3	5	.375	41	38
7	France	3	4	.429	58	52
7	Belgium	2	5	.286	31	65
9	Great Britain	5	4	.556	52	46
10	Austria	3	5	.375	46	59
11	Croatia	1	7	.125	28	66	Relegated
12	Sweden	0	7	.000	18	74

Statistics leaders

Batting Statistic Name Total/Avg Batting average* Sebastiano Poma .533 Hits Marco Cardoso 14 Runs Máxime Lefevre Ademar Rifaela Ferdinand Obed 10 Home runs Ademar Rifaela 6 RBIs Ademar Rifaela 17 Walks Kalian Sams 8 Strikeouts Martin Scheneider 11 Stolen bases Nateshon Thomas 5 On-base percentage* Moritz Scheicher .636 Slugging percentage* Ademar Rifaela 1.111 OPS* Moritz Scheicher 1.636 * Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per game

Pitching Statistic Name Total/Avg Wins 5 players 2 Losses 4 players 2 Saves Rhiner Cruz 2 Innings pitched Michael Roth 16.2 Hits allowed Artuur Driessens Ben Johnson 19 Runs allowed Artuur Driessens 14 Earned runs allowed Ben Johnson 12 ERA* Joey Wagman 0.00 Walks José Díaz Pavao Karin 10 Strikeouts José Díaz Alex Webb 16 * Minimum 1.0 inning pitched per game