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Baseball at the 2011 Pan American Games
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| event | Baseball |
| games | 2011 |
| image | Baseball pictogram.svg |
| image_size | 80px |
| venue | Pan American Baseball Stadium |
| dates | October 19 – October 25 |
| competitors | 190 |
| nations | 8 |
| gold | |
| silver | |
| bronze | |
| prev | 2007 |
| next | 2015 |
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.
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. The tournament was played using designated hitter rules.
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
Medalists
| Men's | CAN {{plainlist | USA {{plainlist | CUB {{plainlist |
|---|
Schedule
The competition was spread out across seven days.
| 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.
| Event | Date | Location | Vacancies | Qualified | TOTAL | 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host Nation | – | – | 1 | |||
| Qualifying Tournament | Oct 1 – Oct 13, 2010 | PUR Mayagüez, Carolina and Ponce | 7 |
Participants
Main article: Baseball at the 2011 Pan American Games – Team squads
- CAN
- CUB
- DOM
- MEX
- PAN
- PUR
- USA
- VEN
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:
- Head to head results.
- Run average (not the run difference) between the tied teams.
Preliminary round
All times are local Central Daylight Time (UTC−5)
Group A
Group B
Elimination stage
Seventh place match
Fifth place match
|24 October – Lagos de Moreno||10||12 |24 October – Lagos de Moreno||3||5 |25 October – Lagos de Moreno||1||2 |25 October – Lagos de Moreno||6||0
Semifinals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Final standings
| Rank | Team | Record |
|---|---|---|
| [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg]] | 4–1 | |
| [[Image:Silver medal icon.svg]] | 3–2 | |
| [[Image:Bronze medal icon.svg]] | 4–1 | |
| 4 | 3–2 | |
| 5 | 2–2 | |
| 6 | 1–3 | |
| 7 | 1–3 | |
| 8 | 0–4 |
Statistics leaders
Batting
| Statistic | Name | Total/Avg |
|---|---|---|
| Batting average | USA Brett Carroll | .556 |
| Hits | USA Brett Carroll | 10 |
| Runs | USA Brett Carroll | 8 |
| Home runs | CUB José Dariel Abreu | 3 |
| RBI | USA Tommy Mendonca | 10 |
| Stolen bases | PUR Reymond Fuentes | 3 |
| Slugging percentage | USA Brett Carroll | 1.111 |
Pitching
| Statistic | Name | Total/Avg |
|---|---|---|
| Wins | CAN Shawn Hill | 2 |
| Losses | PAN Eliecer Navarro | |
| VEN Luis Torres | 2 | |
| Saves | MEX Alan Guerrero | 2 |
| Innings pitched | USA Andy Van Hekken | 14 |
| ERA | 35 players | 0.00 |
| Strikeouts | PUR Julio Rodriguez | |
| CUB Miguel González | 11 |
References
References
- [http://www.copabe.net/noticias/imagenes/boletin_julio.pdf Boletín COPABE] {{webarchive. link. (2012-03-25 {{in lang). es
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150402095219/http://info.guadalajara2011.org.mx/pdf/BB/MTecENG_BB.pdf Baseball technical manual]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111015101203/http://info.guadalajara2011.org.mx/ENG/ZZ/ZZS103A_BB@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ENG.htm Competition schedule and results]
- [http://200.57.183.69/ENG/BB/BBR176A_BBM400400@@@@@@@@ENG.htm Competition summary]{{dead link. (July 2021)
- [http://200.57.183.69/ENG/BB/BBR185B_BBM400400@@@@@@@@ENG.htm Best Offensive Players]{{dead link. (July 2021)
- [http://200.57.183.69/ENG/BB/BBR185D_BBM400400@@@@@@@@ENG.htm Best Pitchers]{{dead link. (July 2021)
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