2015 U-18 Baseball World Cup

2015 U-18 Baseball World Cup
Tournament details
Country	Japan
Dates	August 28–September 6
Teams	12
Final positions
Champions	United States (8th title)
Runner-up	Japan
Third place	South Korea
Fourth place	Australia
Tournament statistics
Games played	50
Attendance	65,724 (1,314 per game)
Best BA	Shoki Katsumata (.545)
Most HRs	Josh Naylor (3)
Most SBs	Wonjun Choi (7)
Most Ks (as pitcher)	Sena Sato (28)
MVP	Nick Pratto

The 2015 U-18 Baseball World Cup was an international baseball tournament held by IBAF. The 2015 edition was held in Osaka, Japan from August 28, 2015 to September 6, 2015.

Format

First Round: The twelve participating nations were drawn into two groups of 6, in which single round robin will occur. The top 3 nations from each group advances to the Second Round, while the bottom 3 nations from each group advance to the Consolation Round.

Consolation Round: The 6 nations in this round play one game against the teams they have not played yet. (example: The 4th placed team from Group A will play the bottom three teams from Group B)

Second Round: The format in the Second Round is similar to that of the Consolation Round. Each team plays the top three teams from the opposing group. (example: The 1st placed team from Group B will play the top three teams from Group A) The standings for this round will include the 2 games played against the 2 other Second Round qualifiers from the team's First Round group, and the 3 games played in the Second Round, for a total of 5 games. The 3rd and 4th-place finishers advance to the Bronze Medal Game, and the 1st and 2nd-place finishers advance to the Gold Medal Game.

Finals: The Finals consist of the Bronze Medal Game, contested by the 3rd and 4th-place finishers, and the Gold Medal Game, contested by the 1st and 2nd-place finishers.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Tournament	United States^[1] Mike Amditis Ian Anderson Daniel Bakst Will Benson Austin Bergner Jordan Butler Hagen Danner Braxton Garrett Kevin Gowdy Hunter Greene Cooper Johnson Reggie Lawson Morgan McCullough Mickey Moniak Nick Pratto Nick Quintana Ryan Rolison Blake Rutherford Cole Stobbe Forrest Whitley	Japan^[2] Wataru Funabiki Yuya Gunji Taiga Hirasawa Kengo Horiuchi Kanji Ito Shoki Katsumata Kotaro Kiyomiya Masato Morishita Kakeru Narita Shinnosuke Ogasawara Louis Okoye Sena Sato Ryo Shinohara Naruki Sugisaki Jumpei Takahashi Mikiya Takahashi Hiroshi Toyoda Shoki Tsuda Shotaro Ueno Koki Ugusa	South Korea^[3] An Sang-hyun Choi Won-jun Choi Sung-young Choi Chung-yeon Ha Seong-jin Hwang Sun-do Im Suk-jin Joo Hyo-sang Kang Sang-won Kim Ju Sung Kim Deok-jin Kim Dae Hyun Kim Pyo-seung Lee Jin-young Lee Young-ha Park Jun-young Park Se-jin Park Sang-un Yoon Seong-pin Yu Jae-yu

Teams

The following 12 teams qualified for the tournament. The number shown in parentheses is the country's position in the IBAF World Rankings going into the competition.

Pool A	Pool B
Japan (1)	Cuba (3)
United States (2)	Chinese Taipei ¹ (4)
Mexico (12)	Canada (7)
Australia (14)	South Korea (8)
Brazil (15)	Italy (11)
Czech Republic (20)	South Africa (29)

^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.)

First round

Group A

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
Japan	5	0	1.000	—	54	1
United States	4	1	.800	1	32	8
Australia	3	2	.600	2	33	22
Brazil	2	3	.400	3	22	46
Mexico	1	4	.200	4	16	40
Czech Republic	0	5	.000	5	14	54

Date	Local time	Road team	Score	Home team	Inn.	Venue	Game duration	Attendance	Boxscore
Aug 28, 2015	9:00	Australia	10–0	Mexico	F/7	Nanko Chuo Stadium	2:42	100	[1]
Aug 28, 2015	12:30	Czech Republic	1–11	United States	F/7	Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	2:12	618	[2]
Aug 28, 2015	18:00	Brazil	0–14	Japan	F/7	Maishima Baseball Stadium	2:37	3500	[3]
Aug 29, 2015	10:00	Czech Republic	4–8	Mexico		Nanko Chuo Stadium	2:43	112	[4]
Aug 29, 2015	15:30	Australia	11–1	Brazil		Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	2:50	703	[5]
Aug 29, 2015	18:30	United States	0–3	Japan		Maishima Baseball Stadium	2:50	5500	[6]
Aug 30, 2015	10:00	Mexico	1–5	United States		Nanko Chuo Stadium	2:46	150	[7]
Aug 30, 2015	10:00	Czech Republic	9–10	Brazil		Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	3:43	160	[8]
Aug 30, 2015	17:30	Australia	1–10	Japan		Maishima Baseball Stadium	2:54	7804	[9]
Aug 31, 2015	10:00	Brazil	9–7	Mexico		Nanko Chuo Stadium	2:45	100	[10]
Aug 31, 2015	15:30	United States	11–1	Australia	F/8	Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	3:05	703	[11]
Aug 31, 2015	17:30	Czech Republic	0–15	Japan	F/7	Maishima Baseball Stadium	2:30	2000	[12]
Sep 1, 2015	10:00	United States	5–2	Brazil		Nanko Chuo Stadium	2:45	130	[13]
Sep 1, 2015	10:00	Australia	10–0	Czech Republic	F/8	Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	2:35	130	[14]
Sep 1, 2015	17:30	Mexico	0–12	Japan	F/7	Maishima Baseball Stadium	2:19	2347	[15]

Group B

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
South Korea	5	0	1.000	—	42	13
Cuba	4	1	.800	1	28	8
Canada	3	2	.600	2	30	29
Chinese Taipei	2	3	.400	3	33	15
Italy	1	4	.200	4	17	38
South Africa	0	5	.000	5	15	62

Date	Local time	Road team	Score	Home team	Inn.	Venue	Game duration	Attendance	Boxscore
Aug 28, 2015	9:00	Cuba	4–1	Italy		Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	2:41	527	[16]
Aug 28, 2015	11:00	South Africa	2–17	South Korea	F/5	Maishima Baseball Stadium	2:30	300	[17]
Aug 28, 2015	12:30	Canada	6–2	Chinese Taipei		Nanko Chuo Stadium	2:57	100	[18]
Aug 29, 2015	10:00	South Africa	0–7	Cuba		Toyonaka Rose Stadium	2:22	647	[19]
Aug 29, 2015	12:00	South Korea	6–2	Canada		Maishima Baseball Stadium	2:51	500	[20]
Aug 29, 2015	15:30	Italy	1–11	Chinese Taipei	F/7	Nanko Chuo Baseball Stadium	2:38	186	[21]
Aug 30, 2015	12:00	Cuba	3–4	South Korea	F/10	Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	3:03	647	[22]
Aug 30, 2015	15:30	Chinese Taipei	15–1	South Africa	F/7	Maishima Baseball Stadium	2:26	200	[23]
Aug 30, 2015	15:30	Italy	0–10	Canada	F/8	Nanko Chuo Stadium	2:32	300	[24]
Aug 31, 2015	10:00	Italy	12–2	South Africa		Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	2:51	327	[25]
Aug 31, 2015	12:00	South Korea	4–3	Chinese Taipei		Maishima Baseball Stadium	2:55	180	[26]
Aug 31, 2015	15:30	Canada	1–11	Cuba	F/7	Nanko Chuo Baseball Stadium	2:07	200	[27]
Sep 1, 2015	12:00	South Korea	11–3	Italy		Maishima Baseball Stadium	3:02	637	[28]
Sep 1, 2015	15:30	Chinese Taipei	2–3	Cuba		Nanko Chuo Stadium	2:57	150	[29]
Sep 1, 2015¹	15:30	South Africa	10–11	Canada		Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	2:50	647	[30]

¹Game suspended and completed on September 2

Super round

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
Japan	5	0	1.000	—	39	3
United States	4	1	.800	1	33	18
South Korea	3	2	.600	2	17	24
Australia	1	4	.200	4	12	38
Cuba	1	4	.200	4	23	27
Canada	1	4	.200	4	20	34

Date	Local time	Road team	Score	Home team	Inn.	Venue	Game duration	Attendance	Boxscore
Sep 3, 2015	12:00	United States	7–4	South Korea		Maishima Baseball Stadium	3:56	300	[31]
Sep 3, 2015	15:30	Australia	7–4	Cuba	F/10	Nanko Chuo Stadium	3:23	703	[32]
Sep 3, 2015	17:30	Canada	2–5	Japan		Maishima Baseball Stadium	2:49	1500	[33]
Sep 4, 2015	12:00	Canada	10–3	Australia		Maishima Baseball Stadium	2:46	527	[34]
Sep 4, 2015	13:00	Cuba	5–6	United States		Hanshin Koshien Stadium	2:55	500	[35]
Sep 4, 2015	18:00	South Korea	0–12	Japan	F/7	Hanshin Koshien Stadium	2:29	7000	[36]
Sep 5, 2015	12:00	Australia	0–3	South Korea		Maishima Baseball Stadium	2:26	70	[37]
Sep 5, 2015	13:00	Cuba	0–9	Japan		Hanshin Koshien Stadium	2:39	8000	[38]
Sep 5, 2015	18:00	Canada	5–9	United States		Hanshin Koshien Stadium	3:10	350	[39]

Consolation round

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
Mexico	4	1	.800	-	26	19
Chinese Taipei	4	1	.800	-	36	3
Brazil	3	2	.600	1	29	36
Italy	2	3	.400	2	29	30
Czech Republic	1	4	.200	3	22	28
South Africa	1	4	.200	3	13	38

Date	Local time	Road team	Score	Home team	Inn.	Venue	Game duration	Attendance	Boxscore
Sep 3, 2015	10:00	Czech Republic	0–1	Chinese Taipei	F/5	Nanko Chuo Stadium	1:10	303	[40]
Sep 3, 2015	10:00	Italy	6–8	Brazil		Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	3:24	69	[41]
Sep 4, 2015	10:00	Czech Republic	4–2	South Africa		Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	2:32	110	[42]
Sep 4, 2015¹	13:30	South Africa	2–5	Mexico		Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	2:48	100	[43]
Sep 4, 2015	16:30	Mexico	5–3	Italy		Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	3:15	60	[44]
Sep 4, 2015	17:30	Brazil	0–8	Chinese Taipei		Maishima Baseball Stadium	2:59	303	[45]
Sep 5, 2015	10:00	South Africa	6–2	Brazil		Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	2:23	527	[46]
Sep 5, 2015	15:30	Czech Republic	4–7	Italy		Toyonaka Rose Baseball Stadium	2:37	527	[47]
Sep 5, 2015	17:30	Mexico	2–1	Chinese Taipei		Maishima Baseball Stadium	2:15	100	[48]

¹Game suspended and completed on September 4

Finals

Third place game

Date	Local time	Road team	Score	Home team	Inn.	Venue	Game duration	Attendance	Boxscore
Sep 6, 2015	10:00	Australia	5–8	South Korea		Maishima Baseball Stadium	3:08	70	[49]

Championship

Date	Local time	Road team	Score	Home team	Inn.	Venue	Game duration	Attendance	Boxscore
Sep 6, 2015	19:30¹	United States	2–1	Japan		Koshien Stadium	2:40	15,000	[50]

¹The game was originally scheduled to begin at 18:10, but was delayed by rain.

Final standings

Rk	Team
	United States
Lost in Final
	Japan
Failed to qualify for the Final
	South Korea
Lost in 3rd Place Game
4	Australia
Failed to qualify for the finals
5	Cuba
6	Canada
Failed to qualify for the super round
7	Mexico
8	Chinese Taipei
9	Brazil
10	Italy
11	Czech Republic South Africa

References

^ "XXVII U-18 Baseball World Cup 2015". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
^ "XXVII U-18 Baseball World Cup 2015". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
^ "XXVII U-18 Baseball World Cup 2015". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 9 August 2021.

Official website Archived 2017-09-02 at the Wayback Machine

[1] "XXVII U-18 Baseball World Cup 2015". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 9 August 2021.

[2] "XXVII U-18 Baseball World Cup 2015". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 9 August 2021.

[3] "XXVII U-18 Baseball World Cup 2015". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 9 August 2021.

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