Baseball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Women's tournament

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Baseball – Women's tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games
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Venue President's Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark
DatesJuly 20–26, 2015
Competitors90 from 5 nations
Medalists
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Silver medal icon.svg  
Bronze medal icon.svg  

The women's baseball tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, was held at the President's Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark in Ajax, from July 20 to 26. [1] Women's baseball was making its Pan American Games debut, after being added to the program at the 2013 Pan American Sports Organization's general assembly. [2] All women's matches happened on the main field.

Contents

For these Games, the women competed in a 5-team tournament. The teams were grouped into one single pool and all teams played each other in a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams after the round robin played for gold, and teams ranked third and fourth contested the bronze-medal match. [3]

Qualification

A total of five women's team qualified to compete at the games. Canada as host nation qualified automatically, along with the top four nations at the qualification event held in March 2015. [3] Women's rosters can have a maximum of 18 athletes. [3] [4]

Summary

EventDateLocationVacanciesQualified
Host Nation1Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
2015 Pan American Women's Baseball Championships [5] March 8–15 Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Concepción de la Vega 4Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico
Total5

Medalists

EventGoldSilverBronze
Women's tournamentFlag of the United States.svg  United States [6] [7] Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada [8] Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela [9]

Rosters

At the start of tournament, all five participating countries had up to 18 players on their rosters. [3]

Results

The official detailed schedule was revealed on April 20, 2015. [10]

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)

Preliminary round

The Pan Am Ball Park in Ajax, was the venue for the women's baseball competition AjaxSportsplex.jpg
The Pan Am Ball Park in Ajax, was the venue for the women's baseball competition

PosTeamPldWLRFRARDPCTGBQualification
1Flag of the United States.svg  United States 440337+261.000Advanced to the Gold medal match
2Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 431269+17.7501Advance to the Bronze medal match
3Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 4223230+2.5002
4Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 413172710.2503
5Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 40484335.0004
Source: [ citation needed ]

20 July 2015
15:00
United States  Flag of the United States.svg10–6 Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax
Attendance: 847
Boxscore

20 July 2015
19:00
Cuba  Flag of Cuba.svg1–13 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax
Attendance: 1,602
Boxscore

21 July 2015
15:00
Cuba  Flag of Cuba.svg5–6 Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax
Attendance: 975
Boxscore

21 July 2015
19:00
Venezuela  Flag of Venezuela.svg3–9 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax
Attendance: 1,375
Boxscore

22 July 2015
15:00
Canada  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg3–2 Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax
Attendance: 1,775
Boxscore

22 July 2015
19:00
United States  Flag of the United States.svg11–0 Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax
Attendance: 773
Boxscore

23 July 2015
15:00
Cuba  Flag of Cuba.svg2–13 Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax
Attendance: 977
Boxscore

23 July 2015
19:00
Puerto Rico  Flag of Puerto Rico.svg0–9 Flag of the United States.svg  United States President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax
Attendance: 547
Boxscore

24 July 2015
15:00
Venezuela  Flag of Venezuela.svg10–9 Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax
Attendance: 1,803
Boxscore

24 July 2015
19:00
Canada  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg1–3 Flag of the United States.svg  United States President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax
Attendance: 3,469
Boxscore

Medal round

Bronze medal Gold medal
1 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3
2 Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 1 Flag of the United States.svg  United States 11
3 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 6

Bronze medal match

25 July 2015
19:00
Bronze medal icon.svg Venezuela  Flag of Venezuela.svg1–6 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax
Attendance: 2,847
Boxscore

Gold medal match

26 July 2015
12:00
Silver medal icon.svg Canada  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg3–11 Flag of the United States.svg  United States Gold medal icon.svg President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax
Attendance: 5,224
Boxscore

Final standings

RankTeamRecord
Gold medal icon.svg Flag of the United States.svg  United States 5–0
Silver medal icon.svg Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 4–2
Bronze medal icon.svg Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 2–3
4Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 1–3
5Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 0–4

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