2012 U-18 World Baseball Championship

U18 World Baseball Championship 2012
Tournament details
host	South Korea
Period	August 30–8. September
Attendees	12
Defending champion	Chinese Taipei
Bottom line
winner	United States (6th title)
Second	Canada
Third	Chinese Taipei
Fourth	Colombia
statistics
Games	43
MVP	Christian Arroyo
spectator	15,640   (Ø: 364 per game)

The 2012 U18 Baseball World Cup was the 25th edition of this baseball competition and took place from August 30th to September 8th, 2012 in Seoul . The games were played in the "Jamsil Baseball Stadium" and the "Mokdong Baseball Stadium". A total of twelve teams took part in the tournament.

The opening ceremony was planned for August 30, 2012, but had to be canceled due to rain.

Attendees

by continents

3 from Europe	Italy	Netherlands	Czech Republic
3 from North and Central America	Canada	Panama	United States
2 from South America	Colombia	Venezuela
0 from Africa
3 from Asia	Japan	South Korea	Chinese Taipei
1 from Oceania	Australia

referee

2 from Europe	David Kulhanek	Marco Taurelli
4 from North and Central America	Jon Oko	David Condon	Kevin Sweeney
	Batista Fermin
1 from South America	Osmel Pimentel
0 from Africa
10 from Asia	Chen Bin-Shun	Tomohisa Yamaguchi	Park Hi-Young
	Kou Wakabayashi	Hyung-Kim Do	Yang Jae-Man
	Lim Jae-Hoon	Seong-Jun Park	Hwang Suk-Man
	Park won-jung
1 from Oceania	Gregory Howard

Preliminary round

The three best teams in each group qualified for group C, in which the positions for the games for places 1 to 6 were won.

The other teams played against each other for the remaining places.

Group A

table

Pl.		S.	N	Pzt.
1.	United States	4th	1	0.800
2.	South Korea	3	1	0.750
3.	Colombia	3	2	0.600
4th	Australia	2	3	0.400
5.	Venezuela	2	3	0.400
6th	Netherlands	0	4th	0,000

(Final score, Netherlands-South Korea was not played)

Results

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
August 31	10:00	Jamsil Stadium	Colombia	-	Australia	4: 7
August 31	14:00	Jamsil Stadium	South Korea	-	Venezuela	2: 1
August 31	18:00	Mokdong Stadium	Netherlands	-	United States	0:17 (7)
September 1	10:00	Jamsil Stadium	Australia	-	Venezuela	3: 6 (10)
September 1	14:00	Mokdong Stadium	Colombia	-	Netherlands	9: 6
September 1	14:00	Jamsil Stadium	South Korea	-	United States	8: 2
September 2nd	10:00	Mokdong Stadium	United States	-	Colombia	11: 1 (7)
September 2nd	14:00	Jamsil Stadium	Venezuela	-	Netherlands	8: 3
September 2nd	14:00	Mokdong Stadium	Australia	-	South Korea	1: 7
September 3	10:00	Mokdong Stadium	Netherlands	-	Australia	1: 8
September 3	18:00	Mokdong Stadium	South Korea	-	Colombia	1: 3
September 3	18:00	Jamsil Stadium	United States	-	Venezuela	3: 2
September 4th 1	10:00	Mokdong Stadium	Venezuela	-	Colombia	2: 7
September 4th 1	14:00	Jamsil Stadium	Netherlands	-	South Korea	- 2nd
September 5, 1, 3	10:30	Jamsil Stadium	United States	-	Australia	6: 2

¹ The August 30th games were postponed to September 4th due to rain.
² The match between the Netherlands and South Korea was canceled due to rain and was not made up as it had no influence on the further course of the tournament.
³ The match between the United States and Australia was postponed to September 5th due to rain.

Group B

table

Pl.		S.	N	Pzt.
1.	Canada	4th	1	0.800
2.	Japan	4th	1	0.800
3.	Chinese Taipei	3	1	0.750
4th	Panama	2	3	0.400
5.	Italy	1	3	0.250
6th	Czech Republic	0	5	0,000

(Final score, Italy-Chinese Taipei was not played)

Results

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
August 31	10:00	Mokdong Stadium	Panama	-	Italy	2-0
August 31	14:00	Jamsil Stadium	Canada	-	Japan	6: 5 (10)
August 31	18:00	Mokdong Stadium	Czech Republic	-	Chinese Taipei	0: 6
September 1	10:00	Jamsil Stadium	Canada	-	Italy	4: 3
September 1	14:00	Mokdong Stadium	Chinese Taipei	-	Japan	0: 2
September 1	14:00	Jamsil Stadium	Czech Republic	-	Panama	2: 6
September 2nd	10:00	Mokdong Stadium	Italy	-	Czech Republic	12: 1 (7)
September 2nd	18:00	Jamsil Stadium	Chinese Taipei	-	Canada	6: 5
September 2nd	18:00	Mokdong Stadium	Japan	-	Panama	8-0
September 3	10:00	Mokdong Stadium	Canada	-	Czech Republic	3: 2
September 3	14:00	Mokdong Stadium	Chinese Taipei	-	Panama	4: 3
September 3	14:00	Jamsil Stadium	Japan	-	Italy	7: 1
September 4th 1	10:00	Mokdong Stadium	Japan	-	Czech Republic	7: 0 (5)
September 4th 1	14:00	Jamsil Stadium	Italy	-	Chinese Taipei	- 2nd
September 5, 1.3	10:30	Jamsil Stadium	Panama	-	Canada	1:10

¹ The August 30th games were postponed to September 4th due to rain. ² The match between Italy and Chinese Taipei was canceled due to rain and was not made up as it had no influence on the further course of the tournament.
³ The Panama-Canada match was postponed to September 5th due to rain.

Intermediate round

Group C played for the positions for the final round, the results against the teams from the preliminary round groups were carried over to the intermediate round.

The remaining teams played for places 7 to 12.

Group C

table

Pl.		S.	N	Pzt.
1.	United States	3	2	0.600
2.	Canada	3	2	0.600
3.	Chinese Taipei	3	2	0.600
4th	Colombia	2	3	0.400
5.	Japan	2	3	0.400
6th	South Korea	2	3	0.400

(Final score)

Results

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
5th September	14:00	Mokdong Stadium	South Korea	-	Chinese Taipei	3: 7 (10)
5th September	14:00	Jamsil Stadium	Japan	-	Colombia	0: 3
5th September	18:30	Jamsil Stadium	United States	-	Canada	0: 1 (10)
September 6th	10:00	Mokdong Stadium	Canada	-	Colombia	10: 6
September 6th	14:00	Mokdong Stadium	United States	-	Chinese Taipei	5: 1
September 6th	18:05	Mokdong Stadium	South Korea	-	Japan	2: 4
7th of September	10:00	Mokdong Stadium	Chinese Taipei	-	Colombia	3: 1
7th of September	14:00	Mokdong Stadium	Canada	-	South Korea	3: 9
7th of September	18:05	Mokdong Stadium	United States	-	Japan	10: 5

Classification round

Results

game	date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
Game for 11th place	5th September	18:30	Mokdong Stadium	Czech Republic	-	Netherlands	4: 7
Play for 9th place	September 6th	10:00	Gueui Ballpark	Australia	-	Italy	11: 2
Game for 7th place	September 6th	14:00	Gueui Ballpark	Panama	-	Venezuela	5: 4

Final round

Play for 5th place

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
September 8th	10:00	Mokdong Stadium	Japan	-	South Korea	0: 3

3rd place match

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
September 8th	14:00	Mokdong Stadium	Chinese Taipei	-	Colombia	4: 1

final

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
September 8th	18:00	Mokdong Stadium	United States	-	Canada	6: 2

Awards

During the closing ceremony it was announced which players were chosen to join the All Star Team and who won the tournament awards.

All Star Team position Player Starting pitcher Shintaro Fujinami Relief pitcher Ho-Tseng Jen Catcher Tomoya Mori First base Su Chih-Chieh Second base Kyle Hann Third base Jesse Hodges Short stop Christian Arroyo Outfield Song Jun Suk Elliot Hargreaves Cristian Cano Designated hitter Jeremy Martinez

Tournament awards Award Player MVP Christian Arroyo Best hitter Young Young Jin Best running average achieved Garrett Williams Best win / loss ratio Lee Su Min Most runs taken Christian Arroyo Most home runs Mitchell Triolo Most of the stolen bases Ryan Boldt Scored most runs Ryan Boldt Outstanding defensive player Lin Tzu-Wei

See also

Portal: Baseball  - Overview of Wikipedia content on baseball

• Baseball world championship (men)
• Baseball World Championship (women)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ XXV 18U World Cup. ibaf.org, accessed August 30, 2012 . 
2. ↑ 18U BWC: Morning Games and Opening Ceremony in Seoul, Korea canceled. (No longer available online.) Ibaf.org, archived from the original on September 2, 2012 ; accessed on August 30, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Final table, All Star Team and Awards. (No longer available online.) Ibaf.org, archived from the original on September 12, 2012 ; accessed on September 9, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

• Official website of the U18 World Cup. ibaf.org, accessed August 30, 2012 (Korean).