Baseball at the 1990 Goodwill Games

Baseball at the 1990 Goodwill Games

Tournament details
Country	United States
Dates	July 26–31
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Cuba
Runner-up	Japan
Third place	United States
Fourth place	Canada

Baseball was featured at the 1990 Goodwill Games. The tournament was contested from July 26 to 31 between eight national teams: hosts United States, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Soviet Union. ^[1] All the games were played at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma. ^{[2] [3]} This tournament marked the Soviet Union baseball team's first appearance in an international competition. ^[4]

Cuba won the gold medal by defeating Japan in the final, while the United States secured the bronze after defeating Canada. Puerto Rico finished fifth, followed by Chinese Taipei in sixth, Mexico in seventh, and the Soviet Union in eighth. ^{[5] [6]}

This was the first and only occasion that baseball was included in the Goodwill Games program.

Venue

Tacoma	Tacoma
Cheney Stadium
Capacity: 8,027 [7]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Cuba Omar Ajete Luis Casanova Osvaldo Fernández Lourdes Gourriel Alberto Hernández Orlando Hernández Orestes Kindelán Omar Linares Javier Méndez Germán Mesa Víctor Mesa Antonio Pacheco Juan Padilla Pedro Rodríguez Euclides Rojas Reynaldo Santana Luis Ulacia Ermidelio Urrutia Jorge Luis Valdés Lázaro Valle Manager: Servio Borges	Japan Chihiro Hamana Shigetoshi Hasegawa Shigeo Kajita Shinichiro Kawabata Hideo Koike Kojiri Machidam Kengo Makamura Kazuhiko Miyakawa Yoshitaka Mizuo Kazuki Mochiyama Hiroshi Narahara Eiji Ochiai Shinichi Okumura Katsuhito Osaka Kazuya Saito Koichi Sekikawa Terunobu Seto Shingo Takatsu Akihiro Yano Takayuki Yokoi Manager: Toshio Uchida	United States Jim Austin Doug Bennett Darren Bragg Roger Burnett Paul Byrd Joe Ciccarella Jorge Fábregas Brent Gates Chris Gomez Joey Hamilton Scott Hatteberg Mike Hostetler Damon Mashore David McCarty Darrin Paxton Aaron Sele Jo Jo Smith Phil Stidham Troy Tallman Pookie Wilson Manager: Jim Morris

Round robin

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Cuba	3	3	0	31	11	+20	1.000	—	Advance to Semifinals
2	Canada	3	2	1	24	28	−4	.667	1
3	Puerto Rico	3	1	2	18	17	+1	.333	2	Advance to Classification games
4	Chinese Taipei	3	0	3	16	33	−17	.000	3

Source: Goodwill Games

Results

July 27, 1990 9:00 am (UTC–7)	Puerto Rico	4 – 6	Canada	Cheney Stadium, Tacoma

July 27, 1990 6:00 pm (UTC–7)	Chinese Taipei	1 – 11	Cuba	Cheney Stadium, Tacoma

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July 28, 1990 5:30 pm (UTC–7)	Cuba	6 – 3	Puerto Rico	Cheney Stadium, Tacoma

July 28, 1990 9:00 pm (UTC–7)	Canada	11 – 10	Chinese Taipei	Cheney Stadium, Tacoma

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July 29, 1990 5:30 pm (UTC–7)	Puerto Rico	11 – 5	Chinese Taipei	Cheney Stadium, Tacoma

July 29, 1990 9:00 pm (UTC–7)	Cuba	14 – 7	Canada	Cheney Stadium, Tacoma

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Japan	3	3	0	32	10	+22	1.000	—	Advance to Semifinals
2	United States (H)	3	2	1	38	9	+29	.667	1
3	Mexico	3	1	2	15	27	−12	.333	2	Advance to Classification games
4	Soviet Union	3	0	3	1	40	−39	.000	3

Source: Goodwill Games
(H) Hosts

Results

July 26, 1990 5:30 pm (UTC–7)	Soviet Union	0 – 17 (F/7)	United States	Cheney Stadium, Tacoma

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July 27, 1990 12:30 pm (UTC–7)	Japan	11 – 4	Mexico	Cheney Stadium, Tacoma

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July 28, 1990 9:00 am (UTC–7)	Soviet Union	1 – 9	Mexico	Cheney Stadium, Tacoma

July 28, 1990 12:30 pm (UTC–7)	United States	6 – 7	Japan	Cheney Stadium, Tacoma

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July 29, 1990 9:00 am (UTC–7)	Japan	14 – 0	Soviet Union	Cheney Stadium, Tacoma

July 29, 1990 12:15 (UTC–7)	Mexico	2 – 15 (F/7)	United States	Cheney Stadium, Tacoma

Knockout stage

	Semifinals				Gold medal game
	Cuba	16
	United States	2
					Cuba	6
					Japan	1
	Japan	15
	Canada	8
					Bronze medal game
					United States	10
					Canada	4

	Classification				Fifth place
	Puerto Rico	13
	Soviet Union	0
					Puerto Rico	10
					Chinese Taipei	7
	Mexico	7
	Chinese Taipei	9
					Seventh place
					Soviet Union	4
					Mexico	14

Final standings

Pos	Team	W	L
	Cuba	5	0
	Japan	4	1
	United States	3	2
4	Canada	2	3
5	Puerto Rico	3	2
6	Chinese Taipei	1	4
7	Mexico	2	3
8	Soviet Union	0	5

References

1. "1990 Goodwill Games Baseball Competition". Tacoma Sports Museum. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
2. "Cheney Stadium (Tacoma, WA)". Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
3. "1990 Goodwill Games Day 11". Tacoma Sports Museum. p. 41. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
4. Penner, Mike (July 27, 1990). "GOODWILL GAMES : Score: U.S. 17, Soviet Union 0, Have Mercy : Baseball: As a kind gesture, the first international tournament game for the U.S.S.R. is halted after 6 1/2 innings". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
5. "Goodwill Games 1990 Baseball". goodwillgames.com. Archived from the original on November 4, 2006. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
6. "Goodwill Games Capsules". upi.com. United Press International Baseball. August 1, 1990. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
7. "1990 Goodwill Games Day 7". Tacoma Sports Museum. p. 41. Retrieved March 15, 2025.