Baseball at the 2003 Pan American Games

Baseball at the XIV Pan American Games
Venue	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Competitors	9 teams
Medalists
Cuba    United States    Mexico
«1999 2007»

Baseball at the 2003 Pan American Games was contested between teams representing Bahamas, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and the United States. The 2003 edition was the 14th Pan American Games, and was hosted by Santo Domingo.

Cuba entered the competition as the eight-time defending champions, having won each gold medal dating back to 1971. They successfully defended their title, with the United States finishing second.

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	1	0	0	1
2	United States	0	1	0	1
3	Mexico	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 nations)		1	1	1	3

Medalists[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's[1]	Cuba (CUB) Yovany Aragón Frederich Cepeda Michel Enríquez Yulieski Gourriel Roger Machado Yadel Martí Javier Méndez Vicyohandri Odelin Adiel Palma Eduardo Paret Joan Carlos Pedroso Ariel Pestano Carlos Tabares Norge Luis Vera	United States (USA) Jeff Clement Tyler Greene Stephen Head Paul Janish Jeff Larish Brent Lillibridge Mike Nickeas Justin Orenduff Micah Owings Eric Patterson Dustin Pedroia Danny Putnam Steven Register Mark Romanczuk Seth Smith Huston Street Justin Verlander Jered Weaver	Mexico (MEX) Rigo Beltrán Lorenzo Buelna Francisco Campos Francisco Córdova Luis García Julio Hernández Edgar Huerta Roberto Méndez Noé Muñoz Pablo Ortega Carlos Rodríguez Raúl Sánchez

Tournament[]

The competition had nine teams divided in two groups. In each group, each team played against all others once and the eight best records advanced to the quarterfinals. The best team from Group A played the lowest ranked team from Group B and vice versa. Ties within a group were broken by the team allowing the fewest runs passing to the knockout round.

Preliminary round[]

Group A[]

Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	Pct
Mexico	3	2	1			0.667
Cuba	3	2	1			0.667
Brazil	3	1	2			0.333
Panama	3	1	2			0.333

Group B[]

Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	Pct
Nicaragua	4	4	0			1.000
USA	4	3	1			0.750
Dominican Republic	4	2	2			0.500
Guatemala	4	1	3			0.250
Bahamas	4	0	4			0.000

Knockout round[]

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	8 August
	Mexico	6
					9 August
	Guatemala	0
					Mexico	2
	8 August
					USA	3
	Brazil	0
									10 August
	USA	7
									USA	1
	8 August
									Cuba	3
	Cuba	10
					9 August
	Dominican Republic	0
					Cuba	2
	8 August
					Nicaragua	1			Third place
	Panama	2
									10 August
	Nicaragua	5
									Mexico	6
									Nicaragua	2

Medal chart[]

Cuba

United States of America.

Mexico

See also[]

• Softball at the 2003 Pan American Games

References[]