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Baseball, Men

Date15 – 25 August 2004
StatusOlympic
LocationOlympiako Kentro Beisbol, Olympiako Syngrotima Ellenikou, Hellinikon
Participants191 from 8 countries
FormatRound-robin tournament followed by semi-finals and final.

Cuba won its 3rd gold medal in the fourth Olympic baseball tournament. But the baseball world order was changing. The United States, where the game was founded, did not even advance out of the Americas qualifying, and did not compete at the Olympics. In the Olympic round-robin, Cuba did not rank first, falling to Japan on run differential. But in the elimination rounds, Cuba rallied to win both games, defeating Canada, 8-5, in the semi-finals, and Australia, 6-2, in the final. Omar Linares and Orestes Kindelán no longer played for the Cuban team, which was led by Ariel Pestano, a catcher who batted .442 at the 2000-2004 Olympics, and drove in 14 runs in Athens. The Greeks played in the Olympic tournament as the host nation, although the game is almost unknown in Greece. They recruited a number of Greek-Americans to play for them, and to their credit, did not finish last, defeating Italy 12-7, to match them with 1-6 records, and placing 7th on run differential.

PosNumberTeamNOC
1CubaCUBGold
15Danny Betancourt
26Luis Borroto
24Frederich Cepeda
31Yorelvis Charles
12Michel Enríquez
32Norberto González
10Yuli Gourriel
99Pedro Luis Lazo
61Roger Machado
58Jonder Martínez
74Danny Miranda
27Frank Montieth
23Vicyohandri Odelín
16Adiel Palma
2Eduardo Paret
8Ariel Pestano
21Alexei Ramírez
55Eriel Sánchez
25Antonio Scull
56Carlos Tabares
14Yoandri Urgellés
46Osmani Urrutia
91Manuel Vega
20Norge Luis Vera
CoachHiginio Vélez
2AustraliaAUSSilver
31Craig Anderson
25Tom Brice
40Adrian Burnside
4Gavin Fingleson
23Paul Gonzalez
10Nick Kimpton
22Brendan Kingman
26Craig Lewis
27Graeme Lloyd
14Dave Nilsson
8Trent Oeltjen
20Wayne Ough
35Chris Oxspring
17Brett Roneberg
11Ryan Rowland Smith
28John Stephens
39Phil Stockman
5Brett Tamburrino
19Richard Thompson
7Andrew Utting
6Rodney Van Buizen
16Ben Wigmore
18Glenn Williams
3Jeff Williams
CoachJon Deeble
3JapanJPNBronze
16Yuya Ando
25Atsushi Fujimoto
1Kosuke Fukudome
61Hirotoshi Ishii
20Hisashi Iwakuma
13Hitoki Iwase
9Kenji Johjima
8Makoto Kaneko
27Takuya Kimura
30Masahide Kobayashi
15Hiroki Kuroda
18Daisuke Matsuzaka
17Daisuke Miura
6Shinya Miyamoto
23Arihito Muramatsu
5Norihiro Nakamura
2Michihiro Ogasawara
11Naoyuki Shimizu
24Yoshinobu Takahashi
10Yoshitomo Tani
19Koji Uehara
55Kazuhiro Wada
21Tsuyoshi Wada
59Ryoji Aikawa
CoachKiyoshi Nakahata
4CanadaCAN
34Chris Begg
20Todd Betts
11Stubby Clapp
37Éric Cyr
14Phil Devey
29Jason Dickson
2Rob Ducey
27Jeff Guiel
24Shawn Hill
25Mike Johnson
17Danny Klassen
32Mike Kusiewicz
30Pete LaForest
40Chris Mears
31Aaron Myette
16Kevin Nicholson
38John Ogiltree
4Pete Orr
33Simon Pond
35Ryan Radmanovich
36Paul Spoljaric
19Adam Stern
28Andy Stewart
26Jeremy Ware
CoachErnie Whitt
5Chinese TaipeiTPE
99Chang Chih-Chia
49Chang Tai-Shan
50Chen Chih-Yuan
52Chen Chin-Feng
54Chen Wei-Yin
13Chen Yung-Chi
31Cheng Chang-Ming
88Cheng Chao-Hang
55Hsieh Chia-Shian
32Kevin Huang
17Huang Chung-Yi
34Kao Chih-Kang
56Keng Po-Hsuan
91Lin En-Yu
24Lin Wei-Chu
19Lin Ying-Chieh
18Pan Wei-Lun
23Peng Cheng-Min
6Tsai Feng-An
71Tsao Chin-Hui
25Tu Chang-Wei
1Wang Chien-Ming
46Yang Chien-Fu
27Yeh Chun-Chang
CoachHsu Sheng-Ming
6NetherlandsNED
12Sharnol Adriana
37Wladimir Balentien
23Johnny Balentina
16Patrick Beljaards
15Maikel Benner
4Ivanon Coffie
19Rob Cordemans
2Yurendell de Caster
24Sidney de Jong
22Patrick de Lange
14Dave Draijer
33Chairon Isenia
20Eelco Jansen
5Ferenc Jongejan
21Eugene Kingsale
30Reily Legito
34Calvin Maduro
35Diego Markwell
7Ralph Milliard
28Harvey Monte
31Alex Smit
9Evert-Jan 't Hoen
3Robin van Doornspeek
18Dirk van 't Klooster
CoachRobert Eenhoorn
7GreeceGRE
3Clay Bellinger
37Alex Cremidan
10Chris Demetral
33Larry Heisler
29Jim Kavourias
18Bobby Kingsbury
6George Kottaras
21Nick Markakis
41Pete Sykaras
26Nick Theodorou
47Clint Zavaras
2Dimitrios Douros
7Cory Harris
5Mike Koutsantonakis
15Peter Maestrales
13Meleti Ross Melehes
8Erik Daniel Pappas
23Peter Rasmussen
34Christoforos Rompinson
39Peter Soteropoulos
31Vasili Spanos
17Sean Spencer
24Jared Theodorakos
CoachDusty Rhodes
8ItalyITA
9Luca Bischeri
3Jim Buccheri
32Francesco Casolari
45Mario Chiarini
34Davide Dall'Ospedale
43Riccardo De Santis
2David Francia
21Daniele Frignani
11Seth Lafera
42Claudio Liverziani
15William Lucena
72Marcello Malagoli
36Michael Marchesano
16Anthony Massimino
22Giuseppe Mazzanti
28Fabio Milano
37Peter Nyari
29Kasey Olenberger
5Giovanni Pantaleoni
6Vincent Parisi
41Jairo Ramos Gizzi
23Carlo Richetti
40David Rollandini
1Igor Schiavetti
CoachGiampiero Faraone

Round-Robin

Date15 – 22 August 2004
FormatRound-robin pool.
PosTeamNOCWinsLossesPointsRuns
1JapanJPN60112-49
2CubaCUB60112-41
3CanadaCAN50210-39
4AustraliaAUS4038-49
5Chinese TaipeiTPE3046-24
6NetherlandsNED2054-29
7GreeceGRE1062-24
8ItalyITA1062-19
MatchDate/TimeLocationTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game #115 Aug 10:30Field 2CubaCUB1 – 0AustraliaAUS
Game #215 Aug 11:30Field 1JapanJPN2 – 0ItalyITA7-inning mercy rule
Game #315 Aug 18:30Field 2CanadaCAN0 – 0Chinese TaipeiTPE
Game #415 Aug 19:30Field 1NetherlandsNED0 – 0GreeceGRE
Game #516 Aug 10:30Field 2Chinese TaipeiTPE0 – 0AustraliaAUS
Game #616 Aug 11:30Field 1CanadaCAN2 – 1ItalyITA
Game #716 Aug 18:30Field 2JapanJPN1 – 1NetherlandsNED
Game #816 Aug 19:30Field 1CubaCUB1 – 0GreeceGRE
Game #917 Aug 10:30Field 2CanadaCAN0 – 0NetherlandsNED
Game #1017 Aug 11:30Field 1Chinese TaipeiTPE0 – 0GreeceGRE
Game #1117 Aug 18:30Field 2AustraliaAUS0 – 0ItalyITA
Game #1217 Aug 19:30Field 1JapanJPN0 – 0CubaCUB
Game #1318 Aug 10:30Field 2NetherlandsNED2 – 0ItalyITA
Game #1418 Aug 11:30Field 1AustraliaAUS0 – 0JapanJPN
Game #1518 Aug 18:30Field 2CanadaCAN1 – 0GreeceGRE
Game #1618 Aug 19:30Field 1CubaCUB0 – 0Chinese TaipeiTPE
Game #1720 Aug 10:30Field 2ItalyITA0 – 0Chinese TaipeiTPE
Game #1820 Aug 11:30Field 1JapanJPN2 – 0CanadaCAN
Game #1920 Aug 18:30Field 2AustraliaAUS0 – 3GreeceGRE
Game #2020 Aug 19:30Field 1CubaCUB0 – 0NetherlandsNED
Game #2121 Aug 10:30Field 2JapanJPN0 – 0Chinese TaipeiTPE
Game #2221 Aug 11:30Field 1CubaCUB0 – 0CanadaCAN
Game #2321 Aug 18:30Field 2AustraliaAUS9 – 0NetherlandsNED7-inning mercy rule
Game #2421 Aug 19:30Field 1GreeceGRE0 – 0ItalyITA
Game #2522 Aug 10:30Field 2Chinese TaipeiTPE0 – 0NetherlandsNED
Game #2622 Aug 11:30Field 1JapanJPN0 – 0GreeceGRE
Game #2722 Aug 18:30Field 2CubaCUB0 – 0ItalyITA
Game #2822 Aug 19:30Field 1CanadaCAN0 – 0AustraliaAUS

Semi-Finals

Date24 August 2004
FormatSingle-elimination.
MatchDate/TimeLocationTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game #124 Aug 11:30Field 1AustraliaAUS0 – 0JapanJPN
Game #224 Aug 19:30Field 1CubaCUB2 – 0CanadaCAN

Final Round

Date25 August 2004
FormatMedal round.
MatchDate/TimeLocationTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game 1/225 Aug 20:00Field 1CubaCUB0 – 0AustraliaAUS
Game 3/425 Aug 11:30Field 1JapanJPN2 – 0CanadaCAN