Baseball at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Baseball at the 1988 Summer Olympics was a demonstration sport for the seventh time. Eight teams competed in Jamsil Baseball Stadium in the baseball tournament. The format used was the same as the tournament of four years earlier. Five teams that had competed in the 1984 tournament returned.

Preliminary round

There were two pools for the preliminary round. Teams played each of the three other teams in their division.

Blue Division
White Division

Round 1

Game 1, 20 September

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H
Netherlands	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	2		6	10
Chinese Taipei	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0		1	7

Game 6, 20 September

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H
Puerto Rico	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		1	4
Japan	3	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	x		7	14

Round 2

Game 2, 22 September

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12		R	H
Chinese Taipei	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0		3	9
Japan	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1		4	15

Game 5, 22 September

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H
Puerto Rico	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	2	0		7	17
Netherlands	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0		4	12

Round 3

Game 3, 24 September

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H
Chinese Taipei	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			0	5
Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0			2	4

Game 4, 24 September

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H
Japan	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0		6	10
Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1		1	6

Round 1

Australia, 1-0
United States, 1-0
Canada, 0-1
South Korea, 0-1

Game 1, 19 September

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H
Canada	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	0	0		6	12
Australia	2	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	x		7	10

Game 6, 19 September

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H
United States	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0		5	7
South Korea	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2		3	7

Round 2

Australia, 1-1
Canada, 1-1
South Korea, 1-1
United States, 1-1

Game 2, 23 September

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10		R	H
Australia	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	6
South Korea	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1		2	7

Game 5, 23 September

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H
United States	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2		7	12
Canada	0	1	0	4	0	0	3	0	x		8	12

Round 3

United States, 2-1
South Korea, 2-1
Australia, 1-2
Canada, 1-2

Game 3, 25 September

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H
Australia	0	0	0	0	0	0	2				2	3
United States	2	0	1	0	1	0	8				12	15

Game 4, 25 September

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H
South Korea	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0		5	11
Canada	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0		3	6

Semifinals

The semifinals pitted the first-place team of each division against the second-place team of the other division. Thus, Japan (3-0) played against Korea (2-1), which had a tied record with the United States (2-1) but had lost in head-to-head competition against them. The first-place Americans played against Puerto Rico (2-1).

Game 1, 26 September

Rank	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H
White #2	South Korea	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0		1	6
Blue #1	Japan	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0		3	5

Game 2, 26 September

Rank	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H
Blue #2	Puerto Rico	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1		2	9
White #1	United States	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	x		7	8

Third-place final

The third-place final pitted the losers of the semifinals against each, with the winner taking third place and the loser taking fourth.

27 September

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H
Puerto Rico	0	0	0	1	0	4	2	0	0		7	11
South Korea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	4

First-place final

The winners of the semifinals played each other for first and second place. In a rematch of the 1984 final, the reigning champion Japanese team lost to the United States. Since baseball was a demonstration sport, medals were awarded, but the medals were not "official" (and did not count in the respective nations' medal totals).

27 September

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H
United States	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	1	0		5	11
Japan	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0		3	7

Rosters

United States

Source:[1]

Jim Abbott, P
Bret Barberie, IF
Andy Benes, P
Jeff Branson, IF
Mike Fiore, OF
Tom Goodwin, OF
Ty Griffin, IF
Andrew Kobliska, OF
Tino Martinez, IF
Bill Masse, OF
Ben McDonald, P
Mike Milchin, IF/P
Mickey Morandini, OF
Charles Nagy, P
Doug Robbins, C
Scott Servais, C
Dave Silvestri, IF
Joe Slusarski, P
Ed Sprague, IF
Robin Ventura, IF
Ted Wood, OF
Mark Marquess, head coach
Skip Bertman, assistant coach
Dave Bingham, assistant coach
Ron Polk, assistant coach

Japan

Source:[2]

1 Masafumi Nishi, IF
2 Hiroki Katsuragi, IF
3 Kunji Yonezaki, IF
6 Kenjiro Nomura, IF
8 Terushi Nakajima, OF
9 Hirofumi Ogawa, IF
10 Daisuke Tsutsui, IF
11 Tetsuya Shiozaki, P
12 Tomio Watanabe, P
14 Tetsu Suzuki, P
15 So Kikuchi, P
16 Shuji Yoshida, P
18 Takehiro Ishii, P
19 Hideo Nomo, P
20 Atsuya Furuta, C
21 Makoto Maeda, OF
22 Atsuyoshi Otake, C
25 Yasushi Matsumoto, OF
27 Kenji Tomashino, OF
28 Tsuyoshi Omori, IF
30 Yoshinobu Suzuki, head coach
31 Katsuji Kawashima, assistant coach
32 Masatake Nakayama, assistant coach

Canada

Source:[3]

Rob Butler
Bill Byckowski
Rheal Cormier
Randy Curran
Gregory Duce
Mark Griffin
Stewart Hillman
Peter Hoy
Lome Franklin Humber
Rick Johnston
James Kotkas
Alan Mauthe
Thomas Nelson
Greg O'Halloran
Barry Parisotto
Greg Roth
David Rypien
Warren Sawkiw
Matt Stairs
Dave Wainhouse

Australia

Source:[4]

Anthony Adamson
Barrie Bahnert
David Buckthorpe
Scott Cameron
David Clarkson
Jon Deeble
Malcolm Gregg
Shaun Harbar
Gregory Harvey
Kim Jessop
Geoffrey Martin
Parris Mitchell
Michael Nind
Matthew Sheldon-Collins
Peter Hartas
Tony Thomson
Peter Vogler
Grant Weir
Darren Welch
Peter Wood

Chinese Taipei

Source:[5]

Chin-Mou Chen
Yi-Hsin Chen
Tai-Chuan Chiang
Cheng-Chin Hong
I-Chung Hong
Chiung-Lung Huang
Ping-Yang Huang
Cheng-Cherng Kuo
Chien-Fu Kuo Lee
Chu-Ming Lee
I-Tseng Lin
Tzung-Chiu Lin
Chen-Jung Lo
Kuo-Chong Lo
Chi-Chen Tseng
Hung-Chin Tu
Kuang-Huei Wang
Fu-Lien Wu
Shih-Hsin Wu
Chieh-Jen Yang

The Netherlands

Source:[6]

Frank Bos
Eric de Bruin
Peter Callenbach
Robert Eenhoorn
Rikkert Faneyte
Ron Giroldi
Bill Groot
Gerlach Halderman
Jacky Jacoba
Marcel Joost
Robert Knol
Frank Koot
Harry Koster
Marcel Kruyt
Alfred de Leeuw
Hans van Renselaar
Ronald Stoovelaar
Bart Volkerijk
Eric de Vries
Haitze de Vries

Puerto Rico

Source:[7]

Albert Bracero
Elliot Cianchini
Luis O. Davila
Jesus I. Feliciano
James C. Figueroa
Anthony Garcia
Efrain Garcia
Eddie Horrio
Jose Lorenzana
Victor L. Martinez
Roberto Mateo
Jose V. Melendez
Angel A. Morales
Benedicto Poupart
Mariano Quinones
Luis Ramos
Jorge Robles
Abimael Rosario
Roberto Santana
Wilfredo Velez

South Korea

Source:[8]

Baek Jae-woo
Chang Ho-ick
Cho Kye-yun
Choi Hae-myoung
Choi Hoo-jae
Hwang Dae-yeon
Kang Ki-woong
Kang Young-soo
Kim Dong-soo
Kim Ki-bum
Kim Kyung-ki
Kim Tae-hyoung
Kwon Taek-jae
Lee Kang-chul
Lee Kwang-woo
Lee Suk-jae
Park Dong-hee
Roh Chan-yup
Song Gu-hong
Song Jin-woo

Final standings

Place	Team
	United States
	Japan
	Puerto Rico
4	South Korea
5	Netherlands
6	Australia
7	Canada
8	Chinese Taipei

1988 Olympic Champions
United States Demonstration Sport title

References

Cava, Pete (Summer 1992). "Baseball in the Olympics" (PDF). Citius, Altius, Fortius. 1 (1): 7–15.
Official Report. Official Report Volume 2: Competition Summary and Results. 1988.

"1988 United States Olympic Team Roster Archived 2009-02-02 at the Wayback Machine", USABaseball.com, accessed December 29, 2008.
1988 Japan Olympic Team Roster (Japanese) Archived August 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

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[USABaseball-1] "1988 United States Olympic Team Roster Archived 2009-02-02 at the Wayback Machine", USABaseball.com, accessed December 29, 2008.

[2] 1988 Japan Olympic Team Roster (Japanese) Archived August 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

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