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Baseball, Men

Date15 – 25 August 2004
StatusOlympic
LocationOlympiako Kentro Beisbol, Olympiako Syngrotima Ellenikou, Hellinikon
Participants191 from 8 countries
FormatRound-robin tournament followed by semi-finals and final.

Cuba won its 3rd gold medal in the fourth Olympic baseball tournament. But the baseball world order was changing. The United States, where the game was founded, did not even advance out of the Americas qualifying, and did not compete at the Olympics. In the Olympic round-robin, Cuba did not rank first, falling to Japan on run differential. But in the elimination rounds, Cuba rallied to win both games, defeating Canada, 8-5, in the semi-finals, and Australia, 6-2, in the final. Omar Linares and Orestes Kindelán no longer played for the Cuban team, which was led by Ariel Pestano, a catcher who batted .442 at the 2000-2004 Olympics, and drove in 14 runs in Athens. The Greeks played in the Olympic tournament as the host nation, although the game is almost unknown in Greece. They recruited a number of Greek-Americans to play for them, and to their credit, did not finish last, defeating Italy 12-7, to match them with 1-6 records, and placing 7th on run differential.

PosTeamNOC
1CubaCUBGold
Danny Betancourt
Luis Borroto
Frederich Cepeda
Yorelvis Charles
Michel Enríquez
Norberto González
Yuli Gourriel
Pedro Luis Lazo
Roger Machado
Jonder Martínez
Danny Miranda
Frank Montieth
Vicyohandri Odelín
Adiel Palma
Eduardo Paret
Ariel Pestano
Alexei Ramírez
Eriel Sánchez
Antonio Scull
Carlos Tabares
Yoandri Urgellés
Osmani Urrutia
Manuel Vega
Norge Luis Vera
CoachHiginio Vélez
2AustraliaAUSSilver
Craig Anderson
Tom Brice
Adrian Burnside
Gavin Fingleson
Paul Gonzalez
Nick Kimpton
Brendan Kingman
Craig Lewis
Graeme Lloyd
Dave Nilsson
Trent Oeltjen
Wayne Ough
Chris Oxspring
Brett Roneberg
Ryan Rowland Smith
John Stephens
Phil Stockman
Brett Tamburrino
Rich Thompson
Andrew Utting
Rodney Van Buizen
Ben Wigmore
Glenn Williams
Jeff Williams
CoachJon Deeble
3JapanJPNBronze
Yuya Ando
Atsushi Fujimoto
Kosuke Fukudome
Hirotoshi Ishii
Hisashi Iwakuma
Hitoki Iwase
Kenji Johjima
Makoto Kaneko
Takuya Kimura
Masahide Kobayashi
Hiroki Kuroda
Daisuke Matsuzaka
Daisuke Miura
Shinya Miyamoto
Arihito Muramatsu
Norihiro Nakamura
Michihiro Ogasawara
Naoyuki Shimizu
Yoshinobu Takahashi
Yoshitomo Tani
Koji Uehara
Kazuhiro Wada
Tsuyoshi Wada
Ryoji Aikawa
CoachKiyoshi Nakahata
4CanadaCAN
Chris Begg
Todd Betts
Stubby Clapp
Éric Cyr
Phil Devey
Jason Dickson
Rob Ducey
Jeff Guiel
Shawn Hill
Mike Johnson
Danny Klassen
Mike Kusiewicz
Pete LaForest
Chris Mears
Aaron Myette
Kevin Nicholson
John Ogiltree
Pete Orr
Simon Pond
Ryan Radmanovich
Paul Spoljaric
Adam Stern
Andy Stewart
Jeremy Ware
CoachErnie Whitt
5Chinese TaipeiTPE
Chang Chih-Chia
Chang Tai-Shan
Chen Chih-Yuan
Chen Chin-Feng
Chen Wei-Yin
Chen Yung-Chi
Cheng Chang-Ming
Cheng Chao-Hang
Hsieh Chia-Shian
Kevin Huang
Huang Chung-Yi
Kao Chih-Kang
Keng Po-Hsuan
Lin En-Yu
Lin Wei-Chu
Lin Ying-Chieh
Pan Wei-Lun
Peng Cheng-Min
Tsai Feng-An
Tsao Chin-Hui
Tu Chang-Wei
Wang Chien-Ming
Yang Chien-Fu
Yeh Chun-Chang
CoachHsu Sheng-Ming
6NetherlandsNED
Sharnol Adriana
Wladimir Balentien
Johnny Balentina
Patrick Beljaards
Maikel Benner
Ivanon Coffie
Rob Cordemans
Yurendell de Caster
Sidney de Jong
Patrick de Lange
Dave Draijer
Chairon Isenia
Eelco Jansen
Ferenc Jongejan
Eugene Kingsale
Reily Legito
Calvin Maduro
Diego Markwell
Ralph Milliard
Harvey Monte
Alex Smit
Evert-Jan 't Hoen
Robin van Doornspeek
Dirk van 't Klooster
CoachRobert Eenhoorn
7GreeceGRE
Clay Bellinger
Alex Cremidan
Chris Demetral
Larry Heisler
Jim Kavourias
Bobby Kingsbury
George Kottaras
Nick Markakis
Pete Sykaras
Nick Theodorou
Clint Zavaras
Dimitrios Douros
Cory Harris
Mike Koutsantonakis
Peter Maestrales
Meleti Ross Melehes
Erik Daniel Pappas
Peter Rasmussen
Christoforos Rompinson
Peter Soteropoulos
Vasili Spanos
Sean Spencer
Jared Theodorakos
CoachDusty Rhodes
8ItalyITA
Luca Bischeri
Jim Buccheri
Francesco Casolari
Mario Chiarini
Davide Dall'Ospedale
Riccardo De Santis
David Francia
Daniele Frignani
Seth Lafera
Claudio Liverziani
William Lucena
Marcello Malagoli
Michael Marchesano
Anthony Massimino
Giuseppe Mazzanti
Fabio Milano
Peter Nyari
Kasey Olenberger
Giovanni Pantaleoni
Vincent Parisi
Jairo Ramos Gizzi
Carlo Richetti
David Rollandini
Igor Schiavetti
CoachGiampiero Faraone

Round-Robin

Date15 – 22 August 2004
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosTeamNOCWinsLossesPointsRuns
1JapanJPN60112-49
2CubaCUB60112-41
3CanadaCAN50210-39
4AustraliaAUS4038-49
5Chinese TaipeiTPE3046-24
6NetherlandsNED2054-29
7GreeceGRE1062-24
8ItalyITA1062-19
MatchDate/TimeLocationTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game #115 Aug 10:30Field 2CubaCUB4 – 1AustraliaAUS
Game #215 Aug 11:30Field 1JapanJPN12 – 0ItalyITA7-inning mercy rule
Game #315 Aug 18:30Field 2CanadaCAN7 – 0Chinese TaipeiTPE
Game #415 Aug 19:30Field 1NetherlandsNED11 – 0GreeceGRE
Game #516 Aug 10:30Field 2Chinese TaipeiTPE3 – 0AustraliaAUS
Game #616 Aug 11:30Field 1CanadaCAN9 – 3ItalyITA
Game #716 Aug 18:30Field 2JapanJPN8 – 3NetherlandsNED
Game #816 Aug 19:30Field 1CubaCUB5 – 4GreeceGRE
Game #917 Aug 10:30Field 2CanadaCAN7 – 0NetherlandsNED
Game #1017 Aug 11:30Field 1Chinese TaipeiTPE7 – 1GreeceGRE
Game #1117 Aug 18:30Field 2AustraliaAUS6 – 0ItalyITA
Game #1217 Aug 19:30Field 1JapanJPN6 – 3CubaCUB
Game #1318 Aug 10:30Field 2NetherlandsNED10 – 4ItalyITA
Game #1418 Aug 11:30Field 1AustraliaAUS9 – 4JapanJPN
Game #1518 Aug 18:30Field 2CanadaCAN2 – 0GreeceGRE
Game #1618 Aug 19:30Field 1CubaCUB10 – 2Chinese TaipeiTPE
Game #1720 Aug 10:30Field 2ItalyITA5 – 4Chinese TaipeiTPE
Game #1820 Aug 11:30Field 1JapanJPN9 – 1CanadaCAN
Game #1920 Aug 18:30Field 2AustraliaAUS11 – 6GreeceGRE
Game #2020 Aug 19:30Field 1CubaCUB9 – 2NetherlandsNED
Game #2121 Aug 10:30Field 2JapanJPN4 – 3Chinese TaipeiTPE
Game #2221 Aug 11:30Field 1CubaCUB5 – 2CanadaCAN
Game #2321 Aug 18:30Field 2AustraliaAUS22 – 2NetherlandsNED7-inning mercy rule
Game #2421 Aug 19:30Field 1GreeceGRE12 – 7ItalyITA
Game #2522 Aug 10:30Field 2Chinese TaipeiTPE5 – 1NetherlandsNED
Game #2622 Aug 11:30Field 1JapanJPN6 – 1GreeceGRE
Game #2722 Aug 18:30Field 2CubaCUB5 – 0ItalyITA
Game #2822 Aug 19:30Field 1CanadaCAN11 – 0AustraliaAUS

Semi-Finals

Date24 August 2004
FormatSingle-elimination.
MatchDate/TimeLocationTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game #124 Aug 11:30Field 1AustraliaAUS1 – 0JapanJPN
Game #224 Aug 19:30Field 1CubaCUB8 – 5CanadaCAN

Final Round

Date25 August 2004
FormatMedal round.
MatchDate/TimeLocationTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game 1/225 Aug 20:00Field 1CubaCUB6 – 2AustraliaAUS
Game 3/425 Aug 11:30Field 1JapanJPN11 – 2CanadaCAN