Baseball at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Baseball at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Demonstration sport
Tournament details
Country	South Korea
City	Seoul
Dates	September 19–28, 1988 (1988-09-19 – 1988-09-28)
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	United States (1st title)
Runner-up	Japan
Third place	Puerto Rico
Fourth place	South Korea
Tournament statistics
Games played	16
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Baseball at the 1988 Summer Olympics was a demonstration sport for the seventh time. It would become an official sport 4 years later at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Eight teams competed in Jamsil Baseball Stadium in the baseball tournament. The format used was the same as the tournament of four years earlier. Five teams that had competed in the 1984 tournament returned. Cuba originally qualified but withdrew as a result of the boycott.

Teams

Source: ^[1]

•   Australia (Invited to replace Cuba. Nicaragua, Mexico and Italy had senior rights, but could not send teams at short notice)
•   Canada (1987 Pan American Games fourth place, defeated 1987 European Baseball Championship silver medalist   Italy in a playoff ^[2] )
•   Chinese Taipei (1987 Asian Baseball Championship gold medalist)
•   Japan (1984 Summer Olympics gold medalist)
•   Netherlands (1987 European Baseball Championship gold medalist)
•   Puerto Rico (1987 Pan American Games bronze medalist)
•   South Korea (Hosts)
•   United States (1987 Pan American Games silver medalist)

Preliminary round

There were two pools for the preliminary round. Teams played each of the three other teams in their division.

Blue Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Japan	3	3	0	17	5	+12	1.000	—	Advance to knockout round
2	Puerto Rico	3	2	1	10	11	−1	.667	1
3	Netherlands	3	1	2	11	14	−3	.333	2
4	Chinese Taipei	3	0	3	4	12	−8	.000	3

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

20 September Game 1	Netherlands	6–1	Chinese Taipei	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

20 September Game 6	Puerto Rico	1–7	Japan	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

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22 September Game 2	Chinese Taipei	3–4 (F/12)	Japan	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

22 September Game 5	Puerto Rico	7–4	Netherlands	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

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24 September Game 3	Chinese Taipei	0–2	Puerto Rico	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

24 September Game 4	Japan	6–1	Netherlands	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

White Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	United States	3	2	1	24	13	+11	.667	—	Advance to knockout round
2	South Korea	3	2	1	10	9	+1	.667	—
3	Australia	3	1	2	10	20	−10	.333	1
4	Canada	3	1	2	17	19	−2	.333	1

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

19 September Game 1	Canada	6–7	Australia	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

19 September Game 6	United States	5–3	South Korea	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

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23 September Game 2	Australia	1–2 (F/10)	South Korea	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

23 September Game 5	United States	7–8	Canada	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

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25 September Game 3	Australia	2–12 (F/7)	United States	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

25 September Game 4	South Korea	5–3	Canada	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

Knockout round

	Semi-finals				Final
	26 September
	Japan	3
					28 September
	South Korea	1
					Japan	3
	26 September
					United States	5
	Puerto Rico	2
	United States	7
					Third place
					28 September
					South Korea	0
					Puerto Rico	7

Semifinals

The semifinals pitted the first-place team of each division against the second-place team of the other division. Thus, Japan (3-0) played against Korea (2-1), which had a tied record with the United States (2-1) but had lost in head-to-head competition against them. The first-place Americans played against Puerto Rico (2-1).

26 September Game 1	South Korea	1–3	Japan	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

26 September Game 2	Puerto Rico	2–7	United States	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

Third-place final

The third-place final pitted the losers of the semifinals against each, with the winner taking third place and the loser taking fourth.

28 September	Puerto Rico	7–0	South Korea	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

First-place final

The winners of the semifinals played each other for first and second place. In a rematch of the 1984 final, the reigning champion Japanese team lost to the United States. Since baseball was a demonstration sport, no official medals were awarded.

28 September	United States	5–3	Japan	Jamsil Baseball Stadium

Rosters

United States Source: [3] Jim Abbott, P Bret Barberie, IF Andy Benes, P Jeff Branson, IF Mike Fiore, OF Tom Goodwin, OF Ty Griffin, IF Tino Martinez, IF Bill Masse, OF Ben McDonald, P Mike Milchin, IF/P Mickey Morandini, OF Charles Nagy, P Doug Robbins, C Scott Servais, C Dave Silvestri, IF Joe Slusarski, P Ed Sprague, IF Robin Ventura, IF Ted Wood, OF Mark Marquess, head coach Skip Bertman, assistant coach Dave Bingham, assistant coach Ron Polk, assistant coach Japan Source: [4] 1 Masafumi Nishi, IF 2 Hiroki Katsuragi, IF 3 Kunji Yonezaki, IF 6 Kenjiro Nomura, IF 8 Terushi Nakajima, OF 9 Hirofumi Ogawa, IF 10 Daisuke Tsutsui, IF 11 Tetsuya Shiozaki, P 12 Tomio Watanabe, P 14 Tetsu Suzuki, P 15 So Kikuchi, P 16 Shuji Yoshida, P 18 Takehiro Ishii, P 19 Hideo Nomo, P 20 Atsuya Furuta, C 21 Makoto Maeda, OF 22 Atsuyoshi Otake, C 25 Yasushi Matsumoto, OF 27 Kenji Tomashino, OF 28 Takeshi Omori, IF 30 Yoshinobu Suzuki, head coach 31 Katsuji Kawashima, assistant coach 32 Masatake Nakayama, assistant coach Canada Rob Butler Bill Byckowski Rheal Cormier Randy Curran Gregory Duce Marc Griffin Stewart Hillman Peter Hoy Lome Franklin Humber Rick Johnston James Kotkas Alan Mauthe Thomas Nelson Greg O'Halloran Barry Parisotto Greg Roth David Rypien Warren Sawkiw Matt Stairs Dave Wainhouse Australia Anthony Adamson Barrie Bahnert David Buckthorpe Scott Cameron David Clarkson Jon Deeble Malcolm Gregg Shaun Harbar Gregory Harvey Kim Jessop Geoffrey Martin Parris Mitchell Michael Nind Matthew Sheldon-Collins Peter Hartas Tony Thomson Peter Vogler Grant Weir Darren Welch Peter Wood

Chinese Taipei Chin-Mou Chen Yi-Hsin Chen Tai-Chuan Chiang Cheng-Chin Hong I-Chung Hong Chiung-Lung Huang Ping-Yang Huang Cheng-Cherng Kuo Chien-Fu Kuo Lee Chu-Ming Lee I-Tseng Lin Tzung-Chiu Lin Chen-Jung Lo Kuo-Chong Lo Chi-Chen Tseng Hung-Chin Tu Kuang-Huei Wang Fu-Lien Wu Shih-Hsin Wu Chieh-Jen Yang The Netherlands Frank Bos Eric de Bruin Peter Callenbach Robert Eenhoorn Rikkert Faneyte Ron Giroldi Bill Groot Gerlach Halderman Jacky Jacoba Marcel Joost Robert Knol Frank Koot Harry Koster Marcel Kruyt Alfred de Leeuw Hans van Renselaar Ronald Stoovelaar Bart Volkerijk Eric de Vries Haitze de Vries Puerto Rico Albert Bracero Elliot Cianchini Luis O. Davila Jesus I. Feliciano James C. Figueroa Anthony Garcia Efrain Garcia Eddie Horrio Jose Lorenzana Victor L. Martinez Roberto Mateo Jose V. Melendez Angel A. Morales Benedicto Poupart Mariano Quinones Luis Ramos Jorge Robles Abimael Rosario Roberto Santana Wilfredo Velez South Korea Baek Jae-woo Chang Ho-ick Cho Kye-yun Choi Hae-myoung Choi Hoo-jae Hwang Dae-yeon Kang Ki-woong Kang Young-soo Kim Dong-soo Kim Ki-bum Kim Kyung-ki Kim Tae-hyoung Kwon Taek-jae Lee Kang-chul Lee Kwang-woo Lee Suk-jae Park Dong-hee Roh Chan-yup Song Gu-hong Song Jin-woo

Final standings

Place Team   United States   Japan   Puerto Rico 4   South Korea 5   Netherlands 6   Australia 7   Canada 8   Chinese Taipei

1988 Olympic champions  United States Demonstration Sport title

References

• Cava, Pete (Summer 1992). "Baseball in the Olympics". Citius, Altius, Fortius. 1 (1): 7–15.
• Official Report. Official Report Volume 2: Competition Summary and Results. 1988.

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