2017 U-18 Baseball World Cup

2017 U-18 Baseball World Cup

Tournament details
Country	Canada
Dates	September 1–10
Teams	12
Final positions
Champions	United States (9th title)
Runner-up	South Korea
Third place	Japan
Fourth place	Canada
Tournament statistics
Games played	50
MVP	Triston Casas (USA)

The 2017 U-18 Baseball World Cup or the XXVIII U-18 Baseball World Cup was an international baseball tournament held by the World Baseball Softball Confederation for players 18-year-old and younger. The 2017 edition was held in Thunder Bay, Canada from September 1–10, 2017.

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 Super 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)

Super round: The format in the Super 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.

Teams

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

Pool A	Pool B
South Korea (3)	Japan (1)
Chinese Taipei (4)	United States (2)
Australia (8)	Cuba (5)
Canada (10)	Mexico (6)
Italy (12)	Netherlands (9)
Nicaragua (15)	South Africa (29)

^1 Chinese Taipei is the official WBSC 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
South Korea	5	0	1.000	—	45	15
Canada	3	2	.600	2.0	42	28
Australia	3	2	.600	2.0	33	19
Chinese Taipei	3	2	.600	2.0	28	24
Italy	1	4	.200	4.0	12	41
Nicaragua	0	5	.000	5.0	20	52

Date	Local time	Road team	Score	Home team	Inn.	Venue	Game duration	Attendance	Boxscore
Sep 1, 2017	9:30	Italy	4–2	Nicaragua		Baseball Central	2:26	650	Boxscore
Sep 1, 2017	13:00	Australia	1–4	South Korea		Port Arthur Stadium	2:36	450	Boxscore
Sep 1, 2017	18:30	Chinese Taipei	7–6	Canada	F/10	Port Arthur Stadium	3:56	3,278	Boxscore
Sep 2, 2017	9:00	South Korea	8–2	Chinese Taipei		Port Arthur Stadium	3:06	600	Boxscore
Sep 2, 2017	9:30	Italy	1–15	Australia	F/6	Baseball Central	2 :19	200	Boxscore
Sep 3, 2017	9:00	Chinese Taipei	9–1	Italy		Port Arthur Stadium	3:20	658	Boxscore
Sep 3, 2017	9:30	Nicaragua	6–11	Australia		Baseball Central	3:03	200	Boxscore
Sep 3, 2017	13:00	South Korea	11–7	Canada		Port Arthur Stadium	3:36	2,350	Boxscore
Sep 4, 2017	9:30	Nicaragua	4–12	South Korea		Port Arthur Stadium	2:30	347	Boxscore
Sep 4, 2017	9:30	Australia	4–0	Chinese Taipei		Baseball Central	2:36	148	Boxscore
Sep 4, 2017	18:30	Canada	6–5	Italy		Port Arthur Stadium	3:46	3,487	Boxscore
Sep 5, 2017	14:00	Nicaragua	5–10	Chinese Taipei		Port Arthur Stadium	3:07	186	Boxscore
Sep 5, 2017	14:00	Italy	1–10	South Korea		Baseball Central	2:58	511	Boxscore
Sep 5, 2017	18:30	Australia	2–8	Canada		Port Arthur Stadium	2:57	3,147	Boxscore
Sep 6, 2017	17:00	Canada	15–3	Nicaragua	F/7	Port Arthur Stadium	2:24	2,484	Boxscore

Group B

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
United States	5	0	1.000	—	34	2
Japan	4	1	0.800	1.0	32	8
Cuba	3	2	0.600	2.0	26	18
Netherlands	2	3	.400	3.0	28	20
Mexico	1	4	.200	4.0	16	26
South Africa	0	5	.000	5.0	6	68

Date	Local time	Road team	Score	Home team	Inn.	Venue	Game duration	Attendance	Boxscore
Sep 1, 2017	9:30	Japan	10–1	Mexico		Port Arthur Stadium	2:59	500	Boxscore
Sep 1, 2017	13:00	Netherlands	1–11	United States	F/8	Baseball Central	2:28	600	Boxscore
Sep 1, 2017	19:00	South Africa	2–15	Cuba	F/7	Baseball Central	2:19	100	Boxscore
Sep 2, 2017	14:00	Netherlands	0–3	Cuba		Baseball Central	2:24	200	Boxscore
Sep 2, 2017	17:00	United States	4–0	Japan		Port Arthur Stadium	3:13	1,600	Boxscore
Sep 3, 2017	14:00	South Africa	3–22	Netherlands	F/5	Baseball Central	1:54	250	Boxscore
Sep 3, 2017	17:00	Cuba	2–7	Japan		Port Arthur Stadium	3:17	1,111	Boxscore
Sep 3, 2017	18:30	Mexico	0–6	United States	F/6	Baseball Central	3:08	450	Boxscore
Sep 4, 2017	14:00	Japan	3–1	Netherlands		Port Arthur Stadium	2:38	1,047	Boxscore
Sep 4, 2017	14:00	United States	5–0	South Africa		Baseball Central	2:10	904	Boxscore
Sep 4, 2017	18:30	Mexico	1–5	Cuba		Baseball Central	2:42	1,000	Boxscore
Sep 5, 2017	9:30	South Africa	0–12	Japan	F/7	Port Arthur Stadium	2:33	222	Boxscore
Sep 5, 2017	9:30	Netherlands	4–0	Mexico		Baseball Central	2:13	420	Boxscore
Sep 5, 2017	18:30	Cuba	1–8	United States		Baseball Central	2:28	1,217	Boxscore
Sep 6, 2017	13:00	Mexico	14–1	South Africa	F/7	Port Arthur Stadium	2:26	149	Boxscore

Super round

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
United States	5	0	1.000	-	31	4
South Korea	4	1	.800	1.0	38	21
Canada	3	2	.600	2.0	28	27
Japan	2	3	.400	3.0	19	20
Australia	1	4	.250	4.0	9	25
Cuba	0	5	.000	5.0	12	39

Date	Local time	Road team	Score	Home team	Inn.	Venue	Game duration	Attendance	Boxscore
Sep 7, 2017	9:30	Australia	3–4	Japan	F/11	Port Arthur Stadium	3:19	212	Boxscore
Sep 7, 2017	9:30	Cuba	7–17	South Korea	F/8	Baseball Central	3:23	151	Boxscore
Sep 7, 2017	18:00	Canada	3–8	United States		Port Arthur Stadium	3:05	3.107	Boxscore
Sep 8, 2017	9:00	United States	2–0	South Korea		Port Arthur Stadium	3:00	412	Boxscore
Sep 8, 2017	13:00	Australia	3–0	Cuba		Port Arthur Stadium	2:30	225	Boxscore
Sep 8, 2017	17:00	Canada	6–4	Japan		Port Arthur Stadium	3:57	3447	Boxscore
Sep 9, 2017	09:00	Australia	0–9	United States		Port Arthur Stadium	2:11	459	Boxscore
Sep 9, 2017	13:00	Japan	4–6	South Korea		Port Arthur Stadium	3:02	672	Boxscore
Sep 9, 2017	17:00	Cuba	2–4	Canada		Port Arthur Stadium	2:31	3,199	Boxscore

Consolation round

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
Chinese Taipei	5	0	1.000	-	35	8
Netherlands	4	1	.750	1.0	37	11
Italy	2	3	.400	3.0	20	20
Nicaragua	2	3	.400	3.0	31	27
Mexico	2	3	.400	3.0	28	28
South Africa	0	5	.000	5.0	7	49

Date	Local time	Road team	Score	Home team	Inn.	Venue	Game duration	Attendance	Boxscore
Sep 7, 2017	14:00	Mexico	1–9	Chinese Taipei		Port Arthur Stadium	3:25	147	Boxscore
Sep 7, 2017	14:00	Italy	9–2	South Africa		Baseball Central	2:50	152	Boxscore
Sep 7, 2017	18:30	Nicaragua	3–8	Netherlands		Baseball Central	3:06	147	Boxscore
Sep 8, 2017	9:30	Italy	4–5	Mexico		Baseball Central	2:48	147	Boxscore
Sep 8, 2017	14:00	South Africa	1–11	Nicaragua	F/8	Baseball Central	2:34	126	Boxscore
Sep 8, 2017	18:30	Chinese Taipei	4–1	Netherlands		Baseball Central	3:09	279	Boxscore
Sep 9, 2017	9:30	Nicaragua	10–4	Mexico		Baseball Central	3:10	147	Boxscore
Sep 9, 2017	14:00	South Africa	0–3	Chinese Taipei		Baseball Central	2:17	185	Boxscore
Sep 9, 2017	18:30	Italy	1–2	Netherlands		Baseball Central	2:28	318	Boxscore

Finals

Third place game

Date	Local time	Road team	Score	Home team	Inn.	Venue	Game duration	Attendance	Boxscore
Sep 10, 2017	12:00	Japan	8–1	Canada		Port Arthur Stadium	2:48	3,017	Boxscore

Championship

Date	Local time	Road team	Score	Home team	Inn.	Venue	Game duration	Attendance	Boxscore
Sep 10, 2017	17:00	South Korea	0–8	United States		Port Arthur Stadium	2:56	3,245	Boxscore

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Tournament	United States Will Banfield Triston Casas Raynel Delgado Mason Denaburg Brandon Dieter J. T. Ginn Nolan Gorman Ethan Hankins Jarred Kelenic Matthew Liberatore Landon Marceaux Anthony Seigler Joseph Menefee Kumar Rocker Michael Siani Alek Thomas Brice Turang Ryan Weathers Cole Wilcox Carter Young	South Korea Bae Ji-hwan Cho Dae-hyun Choi Jun-woo Choi Hyun-jun Gwak Been Ha Jun-young Han Dong-hui Jang Jun-hwan Kang Baek-ho Kim Young-jun Kim Min Kim Ki-hoon Kim Jeong-woo Lee Yu-seok Park Dong-soo Seo Jun-won Sung Dong-hyun Yang Chang-seop Ye Jin-won Ye In-hyok	Japan Kyota Fujiwara Taisei Inoue Shumpei Isomura Kosuke Ito Kento Kawabata Kotaro Kiyomiya Yuto Koga Kaito Kozono Yoshihiro Kujirai Kazuya Maruyama Shu Masuda Ginji Miura Shosei Nakamura Kenji Nishimaki Shuto Sakurai Tatsuya Shimizu Fumimaru Taura Soma Tokuyama Hikaru Yamashita Hisanori Yasuda

Final standings

Rk	Team	W	L
1	United States	9	0
Lost in Final
2	South Korea	7	2
Failed to qualify for the Final
3	Japan	6	3
Lost in 3rd Place Game
4	Canada	5	4
Failed to qualify for the finals
5	Australia	4	4
6	Cuba	3	5
Failed to qualify for the super round
7	Chinese Taipei	6	2
8	Netherlands	4	4
9	Italy	2	6
10	Nicaragua	2	6
11	Mexico	2	6
12	South Africa	0	8

U-18 All-World Team

Position	Player
C	Cho Dae-hyun
1B	Leonardo Seminati
2B	César Prieto
3B	Bo Naylor
SS	Brice Turang
OF	Michael Siani
	Alek Thomas
	Ye Jin-won
DH	Kang Baek-ho
P	Ethan Hankins
	Fumimaru Taura

Statistics leaders

Batting

Statistic	Name	Total/Avg
Batting average*	César Prieto	.581
Hits	César Prieto	18
Runs	Michael Siani	12
Home runs	Triston Casas	3
Runs batted in	Triston Casas	13
Strikeouts	Edouard Julien	16
Stolen bases	Michael Siani	7
On-base percentage*	César Prieto	.606
Slugging percentage*	Jeyner Sánchez	.750
OPS*	César Prieto	1.251

* Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per game

Pitching

Statistic	Name	Total/Avg
Wins	6 players	2
Losses	Mohamed Alaoui Oscar Tucci	3
Saves	14 players	1
Innings pitched	Donny Breek	16.2
Hits allowed	Mohamed Alaoui	22
Runs allowed	Mohamed Alaoui	20
Earned runs allowed	Mohamed Alaoui	16
Earned run average*	Matthew Liberatore Ginji Miura	0.00**
Walks	Cristian Mendoza	12
Strikeouts	Fumimaru Taura	29
WHIP*	Ethan Hankins	0.5

* Minimum 0.8 innings pitched per game
** They are tied with others with a 0.00 ERA but they pitched the most innings (12.0)

References

External links

• Event Official Website
• Event Official Website at WBSC