Baseball Venue Wukesong Baseball Field Dates August 13–23, 2008 Teams 8 Medalists ← 2004 2020 →
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.
Medalists
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
Main article: Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification
^1 Chinese Taipei is the official IOC designation for the state officially referred to as the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan .
See also: Political status of Taiwan
Team squad
Main article: Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Team squads
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 )
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August 13
August 14
August 15
August 16
August 17
August 18
August 19
August 20
Knockout stage
Semifinals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Final standings
Notes
Michaelis, Vicki (2005-07-08). "Baseball, softball bumped from Olympics" . USA Today. Retrieved August 17, 2008.
"Olympic Leaders Approve Golf and Rugby for 2016 Summer Games" . Fox News Victor Mather (August 3, 2016). "Baseball and Softball Returning to Olympics in 2020" . The New York Times
"IBAF changes rules for extra-inning games in time for Beijing" . ESPN . Associated Press. 2008-07-25. Archived from the original on 1 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
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