Baseball at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Baseball at the 1992 Summer Olympics marked the debut of baseball as an official medal sport at the Olympics. The games were contested in Barcelona as part of the 1992 Summer Olympics. Baseball was an event open only to amateurs, although Cuba used its best players as they were amateurs in name only with all necessary funding coming from the state. The maximum roster size was 20 players per team.

Eight nations competed, with the preliminary phase consisting of each team playing every other team. Playoffs were then held, with the four highest ranked teams advancing. For the semifinals, the first place team played the fourth place team, and the second place team played against the third place team. The winners of those semifinals competed against each other for the gold medal, with the loser getting the silver medal. The teams defeated in the semifinals played a match for the bronze medal. Cuba won gold, with Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) winning silver, and Japan winning bronze.Barcelona 1992 Baseball Results olympics.com

Venues L'Hospitalet de Llobregat Viladecans Estadi Municipal de Beisbol de L'Hospitalet Camp Municipal de Beisbol de Viladecans Capacity: 7,000 Capacity: 4,000Barcelona Olympic Organising Committee, p. 317

Medalists GoldSilverBronze Omar AjeteRolando ArrojoGiorge DíazJosé Raúl DelgadoJosé EstradaOsvaldo FernándezLourdes GourrielAlberto HernándezOrlando HernándezOrestes KindelánOmar LinaresGermán MesaVíctor MesaAntonio PachecoJuan PadillaJuan Carlos PérezLuis UlaciaErmidelio UrrutiaJorge Luis ValdésLázaro VargasManager: Jorge Fuentes Chang Cheng-hsienChang Wen-tsungChang Yao-tengChen Chi-hsinChen Wei-chenChiang Tai-chuanChung Yu-chengHuang Chung-yiHuang Wen-poKu Kuo-chianKuo Lee Chien-fuLiao Ming-hsiungLin Chao-huangLin Kun-hanLo Chen-jungLo Kuo-chongPai Kun-hongTsai Ming-hungWang Kuang-shihWu Shih-hsihManager: Lee Lai-fa Tomohito ItoShinichiro KawabataMasahito KohiyamaHirotami KojimaHiroki KokuboTakashi MiwaHiroshi NakamotoMasafumi NishiKazutaka NishiyamaKoichi OshimaHiroyuki SakaguchiShinichi SatoYasuhiro SatoMasanori SugiuraKento SugiyamaYasunori TakamiAkihiro TogoKoji TokunagaShigeki WakabayashiKatsumi WatanabeManager: Masatake Yamanaka

Teams

(Hosts) (1991 Asian Baseball Championship silver medalist) (1991 Asian Baseball Championship gold medalist) (1991 European Baseball Championship gold medalist) (1991 Pan American games gold medalist) (1991 Pan American games silver medalist) (1991 Pan American games bronze medalist) (1991 Pan American games fourth place)

Preliminary round

Round 1

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Round 2

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Knockout round

Semifinals

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Final standing

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Statistical leaders Source:

Batting StatisticNameTotal/AvgBatting average* Víctor Mesa.556Hits Omar Linares13Runs Omar Linares11 Ermidelio UrrutiaDoubles Ermidelio Urrutia5Triples17 tied with1Home runs4 tied with3Runs batted in Wang Kuang-shih12Walks Roberto Bianchi9Stolen bases Calvin Murray9On-base percentage* Víctor Mesa.636Slugging percentage* Víctor Mesa1.000 Chang Wen-tsungOPS* Víctor Mesa1.636 * Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per team game

Pitching StatisticNameTotal/AvgWins4 tied with2Saves4 tied with1Innings pitched Kuo Lee Chien-fu20Earned run average*6 tied with0.00Strikeouts Tomohito Ito20Walks allowed* Giorge Díaz0 Katsumi WatanabeBAA* Kuo Lee Chien-fu.095 * Minimum 0.8 innings pitched per team game

Schedule Baseball events took place over 11 days, from July 26 to August 5.

July 26 ITA - TPE (10:30, L'Hospitalet) DOM - CUB (10:30, Viladecans) USA - ESP (18:00, L'Hospitalet) JPN - PUR (18:00, Viladecans) July 27 USA - TPE (15:00, L'Hospitalet) CUB - ITA (15:00, Viladecans) DOM - PUR (21:00, L'Hospitalet) ESP - JPN (21:00, Viladecans) July 28 PUR - TPE (15:00, L'Hospitalet) ITA - USA (15:00, Viladecans) CUB - JPN (21:00, L'Hospitalet) ESP - DOM (21:00, Viladecans) July 29 JPN - DOM (15:00, L'Hospitalet) ITA - PUR (15:00, Viladecans) USA - CUB (21:00, L'Hospitalet) ESP - TPE (21:00, Viladecans) July 31 ITA - JPN (15:00, L'Hospitalet) TPE - DOM (15:00, Viladecans) CUB - ESP (21:00, L'Hospitalet) PUR - USA (21:00, Viladecans) August 1 PUR - CUB (15:00, L'Hospitalet) TPE - JPN (15:00, Viladecans) ESP - ITA (21:00, L'Hospitalet) DOM - USA (21:00, Viladecans) August 2 DOM - ITA (15:00, L'Hospitalet) PUR - ESP (15:00, Viladecans) JPN - USA (21:00, L'Hospitalet) TPE - CUB (21:00, Viladecans) August 4 TPE - JPN (15:00, L'Hospitalet) USA - CUB (21:00, L'Hospitalet) August 5 JPN - USA (15:00, L'Hospitalet) CUB - TPE (21:00, L'Hospitalet)

References

External links Barcelona 1992 – Baseball Men Results at Olympics.com