Baseball at the 2011 Pan American Games

Baseball at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara was held between October 19 and 25, 2011. All games were played at the Pan American Baseball Stadium in Lagos de Moreno, Mexico. The draw for the competition took place in July 2011, in which the eight teams were drawn into two groups of four.^[1]

Baseball at the 2011 Pan American Games
Venue	Pan American Baseball Stadium
Dates	October 19 – October 25
Competitors	190 from 8 nations
Medalists
Canada    United States    Cuba
«2007 2015»

Baseball was competed by men only, while women competed in the similar sport of softball. Each team could enter a team of 24 athletes for a maximum of 192 competitors for this tournament.^[2] The tournament was played using designated hitter rules.^[2]

Cuba entered the tournament having won 10 consecutive baseball gold medals at the Pan American Games, dating back to 1971. Canada won the tournament, defeating the United States in the gold medal game. Cuba finished in third place, winning the bronze medal.

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	1	0	0	1
2	United States	0	1	0	1
3	Cuba	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Canada Andrew Albers Cole Armstrong Chris Bisson Shawn Bowman Nick Bucci Michael Crouse Emerson Frostad Mark Hardy Jim Henderson Shawn Hill Jay Johnson Mike Johnson Chris Kissock Brock Kjeldgaard Marcus Knecht Kyle Lotzkar Jonathan Malo Dustin Molleken Scott Richmond Chris Robinson Jamie Romak Tim Smith Skyler Stromsmoe Jimmy Van Ostrand	United States Pete Andrelczyk Jeff Beliveau Brett Carroll Justin Cassel Matt Clark Jordan Danks C. J. Fick James Gallagher Drew Garcia Tuffy Gosewisch Brett Jackson Jeff Marquez James McCann Tommy Mendonca Jordy Mercer Scott Patterson A. J. Pollock Todd Redmond Matt Shoemaker Drew Smyly Joe Thurston Chad Tracy Andy Van Hekken Randy Williams	Cuba José Abreu Yosvany Alarcón Freddy Álvarez Erisbel Arruebarrena Alexeis Bell Rusney Castillo Frederich Cepeda Alfredo Despaigne Giorvis Duvergel Michel Enríquez Miguel González Norberto González Yulieski González Yuli Gurriel Dalier Hinojosa Miguel Lahera Jonder Martínez Frank Morejón Vicyohandri Odelín Héctor Olivera Yadier Pedroso Ariel Pestano Rudy Reyes Alberto Soto

Schedule

The competition was spread out across seven days.^[3]

Preliminary round

Semifinals

M

Event finals

October	19th Wed	20th Thu	21st Fri	22nd Sat	23rd Sun	24th Mon	25th Tue	Gold medals
Men's tournament							M	1

Teams

Qualifying Summary

The hosts Mexico, along with the top seven teams at the Pan American Qualification tournament qualified to compete at the games.^[2]

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	–	–	1	Mexico
Qualifying Tournament	Oct 1 – Oct 13, 2010	Mayagüez, Carolina and Ponce	7	United States  Cuba  Venezuela  Dominican Republic  Panama  Canada  Puerto Rico
TOTAL			8

Participants

Main article: Baseball at the 2011 Pan American Games – Team squads

•  Canada
•  Cuba
•  Dominican Republic
•  Mexico
•  Panama
•  Puerto Rico
•  United States
•  Venezuela

Format

• Eight teams are split into 2 preliminary round groups of 4 teams each. The top 2 teams from each group qualify for the knockout stage.
• The third and fourth placed teams in each group will play each other for fifth and seventh place respectively.
• In the semifinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B2 and B1 vs. A2
• The winning teams from the semifinals play for the gold medal. The losing teams compete for the bronze medal.

Ties are broken via the following the criteria, with the first option used first, all the way down to the last option:

1. Head to head results.
2. Run average (not the run difference) between the tied teams.^[2]

Preliminary round

All times are local Central Daylight Time (UTC−5)^[4]

Group A

Pos	Team	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Mexico (H)	3	0	8	5	+3	1.000	—	Advance to Semifinals
2	United States	2	1	33	5	+28	.667	1
3	Dominican Republic	1	2	12	29	−17	.333	2
4	Panama	0	3	7	21	−14	.000	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(H) Hosts

October 19, 2011 19:00	Mexico	2–1	Panama	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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October 20, 2011 14:00	Dominican Republic	2–20	United States	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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October 21, 2011 10:00	United States	11–0	Panama	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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October 21, 2011 19:00	Mexico	3–2	Dominican Republic	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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October 22, 2011 14:00	Panama	6–8	Dominican Republic	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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October 22, 2011 19:00	Mexico	3–2	United States	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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Group B

Pos	Team	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Cuba	3	0	22	16	+6	1.000	—	Advance to Semifinals
2	Canada	2	1	14	14	0	.667	1
3	Venezuela	1	2	14	15	−1	.333	2
4	Puerto Rico	0	3	17	22	−5	.000	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

October 19, 2011 10:00	Canada	5–4	Puerto Rico	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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October 19, 2011 14:00	Venezuela	4–5	Cuba	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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October 20, 2011 10:00	Venezuela	9–6	Puerto Rico	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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October 20, 2011 19:00	Canada	5–9	Cuba	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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October 21, 2011 14:00	Puerto Rico	7–8	Cuba	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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October 22, 2011 10:00	Venezuela	1–4	Canada	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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Elimination stage

Seventh place match

October 24, 2011 10:00	Puerto Rico	3–2	Panama	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
		Boxscore

Fifth place match

October 25, 2011 10:00	Venezuela	7–14	Dominican Republic	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
		Boxscore

	Semi-finals				Final
	24 October – Lagos de Moreno
	Cuba	10
					25 October – Lagos de Moreno
	United States	12
					United States	1
	24 October – Lagos de Moreno
					Canada	2
	Mexico	3
	Canada	5
					Third place
					25 October – Lagos de Moreno
					Cuba	6
					Mexico	0

Semifinals

October 24, 2011 14:00	United States	12–10	Cuba	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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October 24, 2011 19:00	Canada	5–3	Mexico	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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Bronze medal match

October 25, 2011 14:00	Cuba	6–0	Mexico	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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Gold medal match

October 25, 2011 19:00	United States	1–2	Canada	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno
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2011 Pan American Games Baseball tournament Winners
Canada 1st title

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record
	Canada	4–1
	United States	3–2
	Cuba	4–1
4	Mexico	3–2
5	Dominican Republic	2–2
6	Venezuela	1–3
7	Puerto Rico	1–3
8	Panama	0–4

Statistics leaders

Batting [5] Statistic Name Total/Avg Batting average Brett Carroll .556 Hits Brett Carroll 10 Runs Brett Carroll 8 Home runs José Dariel Abreu 3 RBI Tommy Mendonca 10 Stolen bases Reymond Fuentes 3 Slugging percentage Brett Carroll 1.111

Pitching [6] Statistic Name Total/Avg Wins Shawn Hill 2 Losses Eliecer Navarro Luis Torres 2 Saves Alan Guerrero 2 Innings pitched Andy Van Hekken 14 ERA 35 players 0.00 Strikeouts Julio Rodriguez Miguel González 11