Baseball at the 2003 Pan American Games

Baseball at the XIV Pan American Games
Medalists
Cuba    United States    Mexico
«1999	2007»

Cuba retained the Pan American Games baseball title, with its ninth consecutive gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.^[1]

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
Total		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's[2]	Cuba (CUB) Yovany Aragón Orelvis Ávila Manuel Benavides Frederich Cepeda Michel Enríquez Yulieski Gourriel Vladimir Hernández Roger Machado Yadel Martí Javier Méndez Vicyohandri Odelin Adiel Palma Eduardo Paret Joan Carlos Pedroso Ariel Pestano Alexander Ramos Carlos Tabares Norge Luis Vera Robelquis Videaux	United States (USA) Matt Campbell Jeff Clement Tyler Greene Michael Griffin 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 Hugo Castellanos Francisco Córdova Luis García Heber Gómez Julio Hernández Edgar Huerta Edgar Leyva Ray Martínez Roberto Méndez Eleazar Mora Noé Muñoz Pablo Ortega Carlos Rodríguez Salvador Rodríguez Raúl Sánchez Mario Santana Roberto Saucedo Mario Váldez Julio Valerio

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 least number of 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			Third place
	8 August
					Nicaragua	1
	Panama	2							Mexico	6
	Nicaragua	5							Nicaragua	2
									10 August

Medal chart

Cuba

United States of America.

Mexico

See also

• Softball at the 2003 Pan American Games

References

1. "2003 Pan American Games Baseball". Baseball-Reference.com.
2. "2003 Pan American Games (Rosters)". Baseball-Reference.com.