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

The men's baseball tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada was held at the Pan Am Ball Park in Ajax, Ontario from July 11 to 19.^[1] Two fields hosted competition, with the main one holding 4,000 spectators and the secondary one holding 1,000 seats.

Baseball – Men's tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games
Venue	Pan Am Ball Park
Dates	July 11 – 19
Competitors	168 from 7 nations
Medalists
Canada    United States    Cuba
«2011 2019»

For these Games, the men competed in a 7-team tournament. The teams were grouped into one single pool and all teams played each other in a round-robin preliminary round. The top four teams will advance to the semifinals.^[2]

Canada are the defending champions from the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, defeating The United States, 2–1 in the final.

Qualification

A total of seven men's teams qualified to compete. The host nation Canada along with the United States (for its contributions to the game) qualified automatically. The top four teams at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games also qualified. The last qualifier saw one team qualify from the 2015 South American Championships.^[3] Men's rosters can have a maximum of 24 athletes.^[2][4]

Men

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	—	—	1	Canada
Qualified automatically	—	—	1	United States
2014 Central American and Caribbean Games[5]	November 15–21	Veracruz	4	Cuba  Nicaragua  Dominican Republic  Puerto Rico
2015 South American Championships[6]	February 28 – March 7	Cuiabá	1	Colombia
Total			7

Medalists

The Pan Am Ball Park in Ajax, was the venue for the baseball competitions

Baseball competition at the President's Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Canada Andrew Albers Phillippe Aumont Shane Dawson Kellin Deglan Brock Dykxhoorn Jeff Francis Tyson Gillies Shawn Hill Jesse Hodges Sean Jamieson Brock Kjeldgaard Jordan Lennerton Chris Leroux Kyle Lotzkar Jared Mortensen Tyler O'Neill Pete Orr Jasvir Rakkar Scott Richmond Chris Robinson Evan Rutckyj Tim Smith Skyler Stromsmoe Rene Tosoni	United States Albert Almora Jake Barrett Buddy Baumann Aaron Blair Brian Bogusevic Dusty Coleman Casey Coleman Zach Eflin Brian Ellington Eric Fryer Josh Hader David Huff Travis Jankowski Ryan Kelly Patrick Kivlehan Casey Kotchman Scott McGregor Tom Murphy Andy Parrino Tyler Pastornicky Nate Smith Jake Thompson Dan Vogelbach Jacob Wilson	Cuba Roel Santos Raul Gonzalez Rudy Reyes Yosvany Alarcón Freddy Álvarez Urmaris Guerra Ismel Jimenez Frederich Cepeda Yander Guevara Jose Garcia Hector Mendoza Yorbis Borroto Yordan Manduley Frank Morejon Erly Casanova Alfredo Despaigne Alexander Malleta Yosbany Torres Yoennis Yera Yulexis La Rosa William Saavedra Lazaro Blanco Livan Moinelo Yennier Canó

Rosters

Main article: Baseball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's team rosters

At the start of tournament, all seven participating countries had up to 24 players on their rosters.^[2]

•  Canada
•  Colombia
•  Cuba
•  Dominican Republic
•  Nicaragua
•  Puerto Rico
•  United States

Results

The official detailed schedule was revealed on April 20, 2015.^[7]

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Canada	6	5	1	38	15	+23	.833	—	Advance to the semifinals
2	United States	6	4	2	33	22	+11	.667[a]	1
3	Cuba	6	4	2	41	23	+18	.667[a]	1
4	Puerto Rico	6	4	2	40	44	−4	.667[a]	1
5	Dominican Republic	6	3	3	30	35	−5	.500	2
6	Nicaragua	6	1	5	22	43	−21	.167	4
7	Colombia	6	0	6	22	44	−22	.000	5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Notes:

1. In the 3-way tie for 2nd place, all three teams went 1-1 head to head. The 2nd tiebreaker, Team Quality Balance, was used to identify and eliminate the last team in the group (Puerto Rico). The tie between the other two teams was then broken on the basis of the head-to-head result between them (United States defeating Cuba).

11 July 2015 12:00	Colombia	3–10	Cuba	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 1,600
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11 July 2015 15:30	United States	9–10	Puerto Rico	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Second Field, Ajax Attendance: 400
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11 July 2015 19:00	Canada	4–1	Dominican Republic	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 3,522
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12 July 2015 12:00	Dominican Republic	8–5	Nicaragua	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 3,418
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12 July 2015 15:30	Canada	10–3	Colombia	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Second Field, Ajax Attendance: 1,257
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12 July 2015 19:00	United States	5–2	Cuba	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 4,209
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13 July 2015 12:00	Cuba	8–1	Puerto Rico	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 2,133
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13 July 2015 15:30	Colombia	3–5	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Second Field, Ajax Attendance: 1,400
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13 July 2015 19:00	Nicaragua	1–9	Canada	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 4,327
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14 July 2015 12:00	Colombia	4–7	Nicaragua	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 1,357
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14 July 2015 15:30	Dominican Republic	6–12	Puerto Rico	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Second Field, Ajax Attendance: 623
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14 July 2015 19:00	Cuba	1–3	Canada	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 4,638
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15 July 2015 12:00	Nicaragua	0–6	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 1,038
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15 July 2015 15:30	Puerto Rico	8–7	Colombia	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Second Field, Ajax Attendance: 738
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15 July 2015 19:00	Cuba	9–5	Dominican Republic	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 4,127
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16 July 2015 12:00	United States	4–6	Dominican Republic	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 1,453
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16 July 2015 15:30	Nicaragua	6–11	Cuba	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Second Field, Ajax Attendance: 1,027
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16 July 2015 19:00	Puerto Rico	4–11	Canada	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 4,727
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17 July 2015 12:00	Puerto Rico	5–3	Nicaragua	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 724
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17 July 2015 15:30	Dominican Republic	4–1	Colombia	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Second Field, Ajax Attendance: 573
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17 July 2015 19:00	Canada	1–4	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 4,761
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Medal round

	Semifinals				Gold medal
	July 18 — Ajax
	Canada	7
					July 19 — Ajax
	Puerto Rico	1
					Canada	7
	July 18 — Ajax
					United States	6
	United States	6
	Cuba	5
					Bronze medal
					July 19 — Ajax
					Puerto Rico	6
					Cuba	7

Semifinals

18 July 2015 13:00	United States	6–5	Cuba	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 4,702
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18 July 2015 19:00	Canada	7–1	Puerto Rico	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 4,827
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Bronze medal match

19 July 2015 13:00	Cuba	7–6	Puerto Rico	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 4,914
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Gold medal match

19 July 2015 19:00	Canada	7–6 (10)	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark – Main Field, Ajax Attendance: 5,489
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2015 Pan American Games winners
Canada 2nd title

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record
	Canada	7–1
	United States	5–3
	Cuba	5–3
4	Puerto Rico	4–4
5	Dominican Republic	3–3
6	Nicaragua	1–5
7	Colombia	0–6

References

1. "Pan Am Games Detailed Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 15 September 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
2. "Sport Technical Manual Baseball". scribd.com. TO2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
3. "Otorgara beisbol de los JCC plazas a Juegos Pan Americanos 2015" [The Central American and Caribbean Games will award places in baseball for the 2015 Pan American Games]. imagendelgolfo.com.mx/ (in Spanish). 5 October 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
4. Morosi, Jon Paul (21 January 2014). "Sources: MLB to allow minor leaguers to play in Pan American Games". foxsports.com/. FOX Sports. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
5. "Cuba, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico qualify for Pan Am Games". baseball.ca/. Baseball Canada. 21 November 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
6. "No. 19 Colombia beats No. 15 Brazil to win South American Championship, qualify for Pan Am Games". ibaf.org/. International Baseball Federation (IBAF). 7 March 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
7. Kennedy, Brendan (20 April 2015). "Pan Am Games baseball schedule announced". Toronto Star. Toronto, Canada. Retrieved 25 April 2015.