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Baseball at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venues	Sydney Baseball Stadium Blacktown Olympic Centre
Dates	September 17–27
Teams	8
Medalists
United States    Cuba    South Korea
«1996	2004»

Baseball had its third appearance as an official medal sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Eight nations competed, with the preliminary phase consisting of each team playing every other team. Playoffs were then held, with the four highest ranked teams advancing. For the semifinals, the 1st place team played the 4th place team and the 2nd place team played against the 3rd place team. The winners of those semifinals competed against each other for the gold medal, with the loser getting the silver medal. The teams defeated in the semifinal played a match for the bronze medal.

For the first time, baseball was open to professional players as well as amateurs.

[edit] Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States (USA) Brent Abernathy Kurt Ainsworth Pat Borders Sean Burroughs John Cotton Travis Dawkins Adam Everett Ryan Franklin Chris George Shane Heams Marcus Jensen Mike Kinkade Rick Krivda Doug Mientkiewicz Mike Neill Roy Oswalt Jon Rauch Anthony Sanders Bobby Seay Ben Sheets Brad Wilkerson Todd Williams Ernie Young Tim Young	Cuba (CUB) Omar Ajete Yovany Aragon Miguel Caldés Danel Castro José Contreras Yobal Dueñas Yasser Gómez José Ibar Orestes Kindelán Pedro Luis Lazo Omar Linares Oscar Macías Juan Manrique Javier Méndez Rolando Merino Germán Mesa Antonio Pacheco Massó Ariel Pestano Gabriel Pierre Maels Rodríguez Antonio Scull Luis Ulacia Lázaro Valle Norge Luis Vera	South Korea (KOR) Jang Sung-Ho Chong Tae-Hyon Chung Min-Tae Jung Soo-Keun Hong Sung-Heon Jin Pil-jung Kim Dong-Joo Kim Han-Soo Kim Ki-Tae Kim Soo-Kyung Kim Tae-Gyun Koo Dae-Sung Lee Byung-Kyu Lee Seung-Ho Lee Seung-Yeop Lim Chang-Yong Lim Sun-Dong Park Jae-Hong Park Jin-Man Park Jong-Ho Park Kyung-Oan Park Seok-Jin Son Min-Han Song Jin-Woo

[edit] Preliminary round standing

Team	W	L	Tiebreaker
Cuba	6	1	1-0
United States	6	1	0-1
South Korea	4	3	1-0
Japan	4	3	0-1
Netherlands	3	4	-
Italy	2	5	1-0
Australia	2	5	0-1
South Africa	1	6	-

The top four teams (Cuba, United States, South Korea and Japan) advanced to the semifinals. To determine the seed ranking of teams tied in the standings, the result of the two teams' game against each other was used. Cuba therefore received first place due to the win over USA. In the semi-finals, Cuba (#1) played Japan (#4) and United States (#2) played South Korea (#3). The higher ranked team in each game was the home team.

[edit] Results

[edit] Preliminary round

September 17

Time	Home	Score	Visitor
11:30	Cuba	16 - 0*	South Africa
12:30	Japan	2 - 4	United States
18:30	South Korea	10 - 2	Italy
19:30	Australia	4 - 6	Netherlands

* Game ended by Run Difference Rule (after 7 innings, lead is by 10 runs or more)

September 18

Time	Home	Score	Visitor
11:30	Cuba	13 - 5	Italy
12:30	South Korea	3 - 5	Australia
18:30	United States	11 - 1	South Africa
19:30	Japan	5 - 4	Netherlands

September 19

Time	Home	Score	Visitor
11:30	Italy	13 - 0	South Africa
12:30	Japan	7 - 3	Australia
18:30	United States	6 - 2	Netherlands
19:30	Cuba	6 - 5	South Korea

September 20

Time	Home	Score	Visitor
11:30	Japan	6 - 1	Italy
12:30	Netherlands	4 - 2	Cuba
18:30	Australia	10 - 4	South Africa
19:30	United States	4 - 0	South Korea

September 22

Time	Home	Score	Visitor
11:30	South Korea	2 - 0	Netherlands
12:30	Cuba	1 - 0	Australia
18:30	Japan	8 - 0	South Africa
19:30	United States	4 - 2	Italy

September 23

Time	Home	Score	Visitor
11:30	South Africa	3 - 2	Netherlands
12:30	South Korea	8 - 7	Japan
18:30	Italy	8 - 7	Australia
19:30	Cuba	5 - 1	United States

September 24

Time	Home	Score	Visitor
11:30	Netherlands	3 - 2	Italy
12:30	South Korea	13 - 3	South Africa
18:30	Cuba	6 - 2	Japan
19:30	United States	12 - 1	Australia

[edit] Semifinals

September 26

Home	Score	Visitor
Cuba	3 - 0	Japan
United States	3 - 2	South Korea

[edit] Bronze medal match

September 27

Home	Score	Visitor
Japan	1 - 3	South Korea

[edit] Final

September 27

Home	Score	Visitor
United States	4 - 0	Cuba

[edit] Final standing

Place Team  United States  Cuba  South Korea 4.  Japan 5.  Netherlands 6.  Italy 7.  Australia 8.  South Africa

2000 Olympic Champions  United States First title

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