2011 World Youth Baseball Championship

2011 World Youth Baseball Championship
Tournament details
Country	Mexico
Dates	19 August - 28 August
Teams	11
Final positions
Champions	United States (5th title)
Runner-up	Cuba
Third place	Japan
Fourth place	Mexico
Tournament statistics
Games played	34
Attendance	55,069 (1,620 per game)

The 2011 World Youth Baseball Championship was an under-16 international baseball competition held in Lagos de Moreno, Mexico from August 19 to August 28, 2011.^[1] This event is considered a test event for the 2011 Pan American Games baseball event.

Teams

Eleven teams participated in the tournament. Originally, the Philippines would appear in Group A, but the team withdrew one week before the tournament.^[2]

Group A	Group B
Australia	Cuba
Brazil	Dominican Republic
Chinese Taipei¹	Indonesia
Mexico	Japan
United States	Netherlands
	Venezuela

^1 Chinese Taipei is the official IBAF designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan. (See also political status of Taiwan for details.)

Round 1

Group A

Standings

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
United States	4	0	1.000	—	70	21
Mexico	2	2	.500	2	22	30
Chinese Taipei	2	2	.500	2	32	35
Australia	1	3	.250	3	35	54
Brazil	1	3	.250	3	29	48

Schedule and Results

August 19, 2011	Mexico	8 – 6	Chinese Taipei	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 2500
		Boxscore

August 19, 2011	Australia	11 – 21 (F/8)	United States	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 2000
		Boxscore

August 20, 2011	Chinese Taipei	7 – 6	Brazil	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 600
		Boxscore

August 20, 2011	Mexico	5 – 3	Australia	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 1200
		Boxscore

August 21, 2011	Chinese Taipei	6 – 19 (F/7)	United States	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 617
		Boxscore

August 21, 2011	Brazil	7 – 6 (F/10)	Mexico	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 1372
		Boxscore

August 22, 2011	Brazil	15 – 19	Australia	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 150
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August 22, 2011	United States	14 – 3 (F/7)	Mexico	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 3700
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August 23, 2011	Australia	2 – 13 (F/7)	Chinese Taipei	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 200
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August 23, 2011	United States	16 – 1 (F/5)	Brazil	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 400
		Boxscore

Group B

Standings

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
Cuba²	4	1	.800	—	51	18
Venezuela	4	1	.800	—	63	41
Japan	3	2	.600	1	36	16
Netherlands	3	2	.600	1	50	24
Indonesia	1	4	.200	3	12	68
Dominican Republic³	0	5	.000	4	0	45

Schedule and Results

August 19, 2011	Dominican Republic	0 – 9 (Forfeit)	Indonesia	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes
		Boxscore

August 19, 2011	Cuba	0 – 9 (Forfeit)	Netherlands	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes
		Boxscore

August 19, 2011	Venezuela	10 – 9 (F/10)	Japan	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 2500
		Boxscore

August 20, 2011	Netherlands	21 – 2 (F/5)	Indonesia	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 1400
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August 20, 2011	Cuba	6 – 5	Japan	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 3000
		Boxscore

August 20, 2011	Dominican Republic	0 – 9 (Forfeit)	Venezuela	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes
		Boxscore

August 21, 2011	Netherlands	0 – 3	Japan	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 3200
		Boxscore

August 21, 2011	Cuba	9 – 0 (Forfeit)	Dominican Republic	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes
		Boxscore

August 21, 2011	Indonesia	1 – 21 (F/5)	Venezuela	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 500
		Boxscore

August 22, 2011	Dominican Republic	0 – 9 (Forfeit)	Netherlands	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes
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August 22, 2011	Japan	10 – 0 (F/7)	Indonesia	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 120
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August 22, 2011	Venezuela	4 – 20	Cuba	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 4000
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August 23, 2011	Indonesia	0 – 16 (F/5)	Cuba	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 100
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August 23, 2011	Netherlands	11 – 19	Venezuela	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 2500
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August 23, 2011	Japan	9 – 0 (Forfeit)	Dominican Republic	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes
		Boxscore

^2 The team from Cuba did not arrive in time in Mexico for the tournament and lost their first game due to forfeit, which was scheduled against the Netherlands.^[3]

^3 The team from the Dominican Republic did not arrive in Mexico and lost all their games due to forfeit.^[4]

Round 2

Group C

Standings

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
Cuba	5	1	.833	—	53	31
United States	5	1	.833	—	91	49
Japan	4	2	.667	1	41	31
Mexico	3	3	.500	2	34	45
Chinese Taipei	3	3	.500	2	45	40
Venezuela	3	3	.500	2	61	75
Netherlands	1	5	.167	4	31	53
Australia	0	6	.000	5	35	67

Schedule and Results

August 25, 2011	United States	14 – 3 (F/5)	Netherlands	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 350
		Boxscore

August 25, 2011	Venezuela	2 – 9	Chinese Taipei	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 150
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August 25, 2011	Mexico	0 – 6	Japan	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 800
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August 25, 2011	Cuba	9 – 2	Australia	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 1200
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August 26, 2011	Japan	10 – 9	Australia	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 1000
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August 26, 2011	Chinese Taipei	7 – 2	Netherlands	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 130
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August 26, 2011	United States	18 – 17	Venezuela	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 3500
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August 26, 2011	Cuba	11 – 7	Mexico	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 350
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August 27, 2011	Cuba	7 – 4	Chinese Taipei	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 6000
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August 27, 2011	Venezuela	9 – 8	Australia	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 200
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August 27, 2011	United States	6 – 8 (F/10)	Japan	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 800
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August 28, 2011	Mexico	11 – 5	Netherlands	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 5000
		Boxscore

Group D

Standings

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
Brazil	2	0	1.000	—	33	2
Indonesia	0	2	.000	2	2	33

Schedule and Results

August 25, 2011	Brazil	17 – 2 (F/6)	Indonesia	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 30
		Boxscore

August 26, 2011	Indonesia	0 – 16 (F/7)	Brazil	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 200
		Boxscore

August 27, 2011	Brazil	—	Indonesia	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno

Round 3

Bronze medal game

August 28, 2011	Japan	8 – 7	Mexico	Alberto Romo Chávez Baseball Stadium, Aguascalientes Attendance: 3000
		Boxscore

Gold medal game

August 28, 2011	United States	9 – 0	Cuba	Pan American Baseball Stadium, Lagos de Moreno Attendance: 2300
		Boxscore

Final standings

Rk	Team	W	L
	United States	7	1
Lost in Final
	Cuba	7	2
Failed to qualify for Gold medal game
	Japan	7	2
4	Mexico	3	5
Failed to qualify for Bronze medal game
5	Chinese Taipei	4	3
6	Venezuela	5	3
7	Netherlands	3	5
8	Australia	1	6
Failed to qualify for Group C
9	Brazil	3	3
10	Indonesia	1	6
11	Dominican Republic	0	5

2011 World Youth Baseball champions
United States 5th title

References

[1] Teams for the IBAF 16U Baseball World Championship

[2] Schedule released for IBAF 16U Baseball World Championship

[3] 16U: Indonesia, Netherlands win due Forfeits

[4] Day 3 at 16U Baseball World Championship brings Upset

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