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Baseball, Men

Date28 July – 7 August 2021
StatusOlympic
LocationYokohama Sutajiamu, Yokohama / Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium, Fukushima
Participants142 from 6 countries
FormatGroup stage followed by double-elimination rounds.

Baseball returned to the Olympic Program for the first time since 2008 in Beijing. It had been an Olympic sport since 1988 and had been a demonstration sport at the 1912, 1936, 1956, 1964, 1984, and 1988 Olympics. The tournament was modified with only 6 teams competing in two groups of three. The group play was really a seeding round that advanced all 6 teams to what was effectively a double-elimination round.

Japan and Korea closed down their national professional leagues and brought all their best players to the Olympics. The United States, however, continued with Major League Baseball, and their team mostly consisted of minor leaguers, though a few of them had major league experience.

The final teams were Japan, the United States, Korea, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Israel, which represented Europe. Japan and the USA won their groups and met in round two of the tournament, as the other four teams played to advance to the semi-finals, where Korea advanced to meet Japan, who had defeated the USA, 7-6. Japan won that game, 5-2.

Japan defeated the USA in round two, although the United States advanced through the losers’ bracket (termed a repechage by the Organizing Committee), and they met again in the gold medal game. It was closely fought, with Japan taking an early 1-0 lead, but the United States could never score. Starter Masato Morishita shut down the Americans and his relievers held onto the lead. American starter Nick Martinez pitched well, giving up only a third inning home run to Munetaka Murakami.

The Japanese added an insurance run in the eighth, and final Japanese reliever Ryoji Kuribayashi held on for the 2-0 shutout victory and the gold medal. Though there were no Japanese fans at the gold medal game, because of the pandemic, they reveled in the victory as baseball is a national craze in Japan.

The Dominican Republic defeated Korea in the bronze medal match-up, 10-6. With the USA winning the silver medal, American Eddy Alvarez became only the sixth person to win medals in Summer and Winter Olympic sports, as he had won a silver in short-track speedskating in the men’s relay at Sochi in 2014.

PosNumberTeamNOC
1JapanJPNGold
2B/SS/DH1Tetsuto Yamada
3B/CF/PR2Sosuke Genda
1B/3B/PR3Hideto Asamura
1B/2B/3B4Ryosuke Kikuchi
SS/LF6Hayato Sakamoto
C7Ryutaro Umeno
LF/DH/PH/PR8Kensuke Kondoh
2B/CF9Yuki Yanagita
C10Takuya Kai
P12Koyo Aoyagi
P13Suguru Iwazaki
P15Masato Morishita
P16Hiromi Itoh
P17Yoshinobu Yamamoto
P18Masahiro Tanaka
P19Yasuaki Yamasaki
P20Ryoji Kuribayashi
P21Koudai Senga
P22Yudai Ohno
PH31Ryoya Kurihara
LF/RF/DH34Masataka Yoshida
1B/RF51Seiya Suzuki
C/1B/3B55Munetaka Murakami
P61Kaima Taira
CoachAtsunori Inaba
CoachAtsunori Inaba
2United StatesUSASilver
2B2Eddy Alvarez
RF5Eric Filia
3B/CF/PH7Jack López
C8Mark Kolozsvary
SS10Nick Allen
LF12Jamie Westbrook
P14Nick Martinez
P15Scott Kazmir
LF16Patrick Kivlehan
DH23Tyler Austin
CF24Bubba Starling
3B25Todd Frazier
1B26Triston Casas
P28Ryder Ryan
P30David Robertson
P31Anthony Gose
P32Brandon Dickson
P33Edwin Jackson, Jr.
P35Shane Baz
P39Scott McGough
P40Joe Speer Ryan
P48Anthony Carter
34Tim Federowicz DNS
44Simeon Woods Richardson DNS
CoachMike Scioscia
CoachMike Scioscia
3Dominican RepublicDOMBronze
2B2Gustavo Núñez
2B/PH3Yefri Pérez
2B/3B6Erick Mejia
C7Charlie Valerio
SS10Jeison Guzmán
DH14Melky Cabrera
P15Cristopher Mercedes
C16Roldani Baldwin
CF/RF18Julio Yamel Rodríguez
1B/3B/PR19José Bautista
P23Ramón Rosso
P28Junior García
P31Luis Felipe Castillo
P33Jairo Asencio
1B/DH34Juan Francisco
LF/RF36Johan Mieses
P37Jhan Carlos Maríñez
P38Ángel Sánchez
P39Darío Álvarez
P41Denyi Reyes
P56Raúl Valdés
CF64Emilio Bonifácio
P70Jumbo Díaz
P79Gabriel Arias
CoachHéctor Borg
CoachHéctor Borg
4Republic of KoreaKOR
1Go Yeong-Pyo
SS2Oh Ji-Hwan
2B/PR3Kim Hye-Seong
1B/2B/3B10Hwang Jae-Gyun
P11Cho Sang-Wu
13Hur Gyeong-Min
P15Kim Jin-Uk
CF17Park Hae-Min
P18Won Tae-In
P19Go Wu-Seok
P21Oh Seung-Hwan
1B/LF22Kim Hyeon-Su
P23Cha Wu-Chan
25Yang Ui-Ji
P32Park Se-Ung
37Park Geon-Wu
1B/PH44Oh Jae-Il
47Gang Min-Ho
48Lee Eui-Lee
DH50Gang Baek-Ho
LF/RF51Lee Jeong-Hu
PH53Choi Ju-Hwan
P55Kim Min-Wu
P61Choi Won-Jun
CoachKim Kyung-Moon
CoachKim Kyung-Moon
5IsraelISR
CF2Blake Gailen
2B3Ian Kinsler
CF/LF4Robb Paller
LF/DH/PH/PR6Zach Penprase
C/PH7Tal Erel
SS8Scott Burcham
DH9Nick Rickles
P10D. J. Sharabi
3B11Ty Kelly
P12Shlomo Lipetz
P14Joseph Wagman
P17Jake Fishman
1B19Danny Valencia
P21Jonathan de Marte
2B/RF22Mitchell Glasser
1B/P23Ben Wanger
2B/PH24Assaf Lowengart
P27Jon Moscot
P28Josh Zeid
P29Alon Leichman
P30Jeremy Bleich
C36Ryan Lavarnway
P44Zack Weiss
P47Alexander Katz
CoachEric Holtz
CoachEric Holtz
6MexicoMEX
RF1Sebastián Elizalde
C13Irving Wilson
P17Édgar Arredondo
SS18Danny Espinosa
2B/PH19Ramiro Peña
P20Manny Bañuelos
DH23Adrían González
1B24Efrén Navarro
CF27Jonathan Jones, Jr.
P29Óliver Pérez
LF32Joey Meneses
RF/PH/PR33José Cardona
P35Juan Oramas
P36Teddy Stankiewicz
C44Román Solís
P46Carlos Bustamante
P48Sasagi Sánchez
P49César Vargas
P50Manuel Barreda
P53Daniel Duarte
2B/PH54Ryan Goins
P59Fernando Salas
P66Fabián Anguamea
3B74Isaac Rodríguez
CoachBenji Gil
CoachBenji Gil

Preliminary Round

Date28 – 31 July 2021
FormatRound-robin pool.

Group A

Date28 – 31 July 2021
PosTeamNOCWinsLossesPointsRuns
1JapanJPN20411-7
2Dominican RepublicDOM1124-4
3MexicoMEX0204-8
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game #128 Jul 12:00JapanJPN4 – 3Dominican RepublicDOM
Game #230 Jul 12:00Dominican RepublicDOM1 – 0MexicoMEX
Game #331 Jul 12:00JapanJPN7 – 4MexicoMEX

Group B

Date29 – 31 July 2021
PosTeamNOCWinsLossesPointsRuns
1United StatesUSA20412-3
2Republic of KoreaKOR1128-9
3IsraelISR0206-14
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game #129 Jul 19:00Republic of KoreaKOR6 – 5IsraelISR
Game #230 Jul 19:00United StatesUSA8 – 1IsraelISR
Game #331 Jul 19:00United StatesUSA4 – 2Republic of KoreaKOR

Round One

Date1 August 2021
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game #101 Aug 12:00IsraelISR12 – 5MexicoMEX
Game #201 Aug 19:00Republic of KoreaKOR4 – 3Dominican RepublicDOM

Round Two

Date2 August 2021
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game #102 Aug 12:00Republic of KoreaKOR11 – 1IsraelISR
Game #202 Aug 19:00JapanJPN7 – 6United StatesUSA

Round One Repêchage

Date3 August 2021
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game #103 Aug 19:00Dominican RepublicDOM7 – 6IsraelISR

Round Two Repêchage

Date4 August 2021
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game #104 Aug 12:00United StatesUSA3 – 1Dominican RepublicDOM

Semi-Finals

Date4 – 5 August 2021
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game #104 Aug 19:00JapanJPN5 – 2Republic of KoreaKOR
Game #205 Aug 19:00United StatesUSA7 – 2Republic of KoreaKOR

Final Round

Date7 August 2021
FormatMedal round.
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game 1/207 Aug 19:00JapanJPN2 – 0United StatesUSA
Game 3/407 Aug 12:00Dominican RepublicDOM10 – 6Republic of KoreaKOR