Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Competing teams

Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from August 13 to August 23. All games were played at Wukesong Baseball Field, a temporary venue constructed at the Beijing Wukesong Culture & Sports Center. For the third time in Olympic competition, professional baseball players were eligible to participate, though no active players from Major League Baseball were available.

This was the last Olympic baseball tournament before the International Olympic Committee voted to remove baseball from the program in the 2012 Olympics. Along with softball, baseball was rejected for inclusion in the 2016 Summer Olympics at the IOC's meeting in October 2009. However, following a 2016 IOC vote, baseball was again included for the 2020 Games.

This was also the first time that the IBAF's new extra-innings rule was officially in effect, allowing each team to start with two base runners from the 11th inning on. South Korea won the gold medal in a 3–2 final victory against Cuba. The United States won bronze.

Venues

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Wukesong Baseball Main Field	Wukesong Baseball Field 2
Capacity: 12,000	Capacity: 3,000
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Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Template:FlagIOCteam Hyun-Jin Ryu Ki-Joo Han Jin-Man Park Hyuk Kwon Taek-Keun Lee Dae-Ho Lee Seung-Hwan Oh Jung-Keun Bong Young-Min Ko Jong-Wook Lee Keun-Woo Jeong Min-Jae Kim Kab-Yong Jin Jin-Young Lee Won-Sam Jang Seung-Jun Song Kwang-Hyun Kim Yong-Kyu Lee Dong-Joo Kim Min-Ho Kang Hyun-soo Kim Seung-Yeop Lee Tae-Hyon Chong Suk-Min Yoon Manager: Kyung-Moon Kim	Template:FlagIOCteam Ariel Pestano Yoandry Urgellés Alfredo Despaigne Luis Rodríguez Alexei Bell Yadier Pedroso Jonder Martínez Adiel Palma Luis Navas Giorvis Duvergel Alexander Mayeta Eriel Sánchez Rolando Meriño Héctor Olivera Michel Enríquez Yuliesky Gourriel Vicyohandry Odelín Pedro Luis Lazo Eduardo Paret Norberto González Norge Luis Vera Frederich Cepeda Elier Sánchez Miguel La Hera Manager: Antonio Pacheco	Template:FlagIOCteam Brett Anderson Blaine Neal Matt Brown Nate Schierholtz Jeremy Cummings Michael Koplove Terry Tiffee Kevin Jepsen Brian Duensing Dexter Fowler Brandon Knight Mike Hessman Casey Weathers Jason Donald Jayson Nix Taylor Teagarden Stephen Strasburg Jake Arrieta Lou Marson Matt LaPorta Trevor Cahill Brian Barden John Gall Jeff Stevens Manager: Davey Johnson

Competition format

Eight teams are competing in the Olympic baseball tournament, and the competition consists of two rounds. The preliminary round follows a round robin format, where each of the teams plays all the other teams once. Following this, the top four teams advance to a single elimination round culminating in the bronze and gold medal games.

Qualification

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation				China
American Qualifying Tournament	Aug 25 – Sept 7, 2006	Template:Flagicon Havana	2	United States Cuba
European Championship	Sept 7 – Sept 16, 2007	Template:Flagicon Barcelona	1	Netherlands
Asian Baseball Championship	Nov 27 – Dec 3, 2007	Template:Flagicon Taichung	1	Japan
Final Qualifying Tournament	Mar 7 – Mar 14, 2008	Template:Flagicon Taichung and Douliou	3	Canada South Korea Chinese Taipei[1]
TOTAL			8

^1 Chinese Taipei is the official IOC designation for the state officially referred to as the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan.

Team squad

Team	Qualification criteria	Appearance
Canada	1st place of Final Qualifying Tournament	2nd
China	Automatic as host nation of the Olympics	1st
Chinese Taipei	3rd place of Final Qualifying Tournament	3rd
Cuba	2nd place of American Qualifying Tournament	5th
Japan	1st place of Asian Baseball Championship	5th
South Korea	2nd place of Final Qualifying Tournament	3rd
Netherlands	1st place of European Championship	4th
United States	1st place of American Qualifying Tournament	4th

Group stage

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Team	G	W	L	RS	RA	WIN%	GB	Tiebreaker
South Korea	7	7	0	41	22	1.000	–	–
Cuba	7	6	1	52	23	.857	1	–
United States	7	5	2	40	22	.714	2	–
Japan	7	4	3	30	14	.571	3	–
Chinese Taipei	7	2	5	29	33	.286	5	1–0
Canada	7	2	5	29	20	.286	5	0–1
Netherlands	7	1	6	9	50	.143	6	1–0
China	7	1	6	14	60	.143	6	0–1

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