Baseball at the 1992 Summer Olympics

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Venues	Estadi Municipal de Beisbol de L'Hospitalet (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat); Camp Municipal de Beisbol de Viladecans (Viladecans)
Dates	July 26 – August 5, 1992
Competitors	160 from 8 nations
Teams	8
Medalists
	← 1988 (demonstration) 1996 →

Baseball at the 1992 Summer Olympics marked the debut of baseball as an official medal sport at the Olympics.^[1]^[2] The games were contested in Barcelona as part of the 1992 Summer Olympics.^[3] Baseball was an event open only to amateurs, although Cuba used its best players as they were amateurs in name only with all necessary funding coming from the state.^[4]^[5]^[6] The maximum roster size was 20 players per team.

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 first place team played the fourth place team, and the second place team played against the third 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 semifinals played a match for the bronze medal. Cuba won gold, with Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) winning silver, and Japan winning bronze.^[7]

Venues

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat	Viladecans
Estadi Municipal de Beisbol de L'Hospitalet	Camp Municipal de Beisbol de Viladecans
Capacity: 7,000^[8]	Capacity: 4,000^[9]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Cuba Omar Ajete Rolando Arrojo Giorge Díaz José Raúl Delgado José Estrada Osvaldo Fernández Lourdes Gourriel Alberto Hernández Orlando Hernández Orestes Kindelán Omar Linares Germán Mesa Víctor Mesa Antonio Pacheco Juan Padilla Juan Carlos Pérez Luis Ulacia Ermidelio Urrutia Jorge Luis Valdés Lázaro Vargas Manager: Jorge Fuentes	Chinese Taipei Chang Cheng-hsien Chang Wen-tsung Chang Yao-teng Chen Chi-hsin Chen Wei-chen Chiang Tai-chuan Chung Yu-cheng Huang Chung-yi Huang Wen-po Ku Kuo-chian Kuo Lee Chien-fu Liao Ming-hsiung Lin Chao-huang Lin Kun-han Lo Chen-jung Lo Kuo-chong Pai Kun-hong Tsai Ming-hung Wang Kuang-shih Wu Shih-hsih Manager: Lee Lai-fa	Japan Tomohito Ito Shinichiro Kawabata Masahito Kohiyama Hirotami Kojima Hiroki Kokubo Takashi Miwa Hiroshi Nakamoto Masafumi Nishi Kazutaka Nishiyama Koichi Oshima Hiroyuki Sakaguchi Shinichi Sato Yasuhiro Sato Masanori Sugiura Kento Sugiyama Yasunori Takami Akihiro Togo Koji Tokunaga Shigeki Wakabayashi Katsumi Watanabe Manager: Masatake Yamanaka

Teams

Spain (Hosts)
Chinese Taipei (1991 Asian Baseball Championship silver medalist)
Japan (1991 Asian Baseball Championship gold medalist)
Italy (1991 European Baseball Championship gold medalist)
Cuba (1991 Pan American games gold medalist)
Puerto Rico (1991 Pan American games silver medalist)
United States (1991 Pan American games bronze medalist)
Dominican Republic (1991 Pan American games fourth place)

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Cuba	7	7	0	78	14	+64	1.000	—	Advance to knockout round
2	Japan	7	5	2	60	15	+45	.714	2
3	Chinese Taipei	7	5	2	61	21	+40	.714	2
4	United States	7	5	2	49	28	+21	.714	2
5	Puerto Rico	7	2	5	22	48	−26	.286	5
6	Dominican Republic	7	2	5	23	60	−37	.286	5
7	Italy	7	1	6	25	62	−37	.143	6
8	Spain (H)	7	1	6	15	85	−70	.143	6

Source: WBSC
(H) Hosts

Round 1

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0		2	8	0
Chinese Taipei	1	0	5	0	2	0	0	0	x		8	12	0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	3	0
Cuba	0	0	0	4	0	2	0	2	x		8	14	0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
United States	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0		4	5	0
Spain	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		1	3	2

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

Round 2

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
United States	0	3	0	0	3	1	3	0	0		10	14	1
Chinese Taipei	0	0	0	4	0	1	4	0	0		9	9	1

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	1		5	8	4
Puerto Rico	2	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	x		7	10	1

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	1				1	3	1
Japan	2	4	0	2	0	4	x				12	11	0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Cuba	5	0	3	0	0	0	2	8			18	20	0
Italy	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			1	8	2

Round 3

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Puerto Rico	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		1	3	1
Chinese Taipei	0	0	0	5	2	2	1	0	x		10	13	0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			0	5	4
United States	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	5			10	15	1

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Cuba	0	0	4	0	0	2	2	0	0		8	15	1
Japan	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0		2	5	1

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Spain	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0		2	4	4
Dominican Republic	0	4	1	0	1	3	0	2	x		11	13	3

Round 4

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Japan	1	1	4	1	1	5	4				17	18	0
Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0	3	2

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

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
United States	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0		6	9	5
Cuba	0	0	4	2	0	3	0	0	x		9	13	4

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0	2	0
Chinese Taipei	7	3	4	6	0	0	x				20	19	1

Round 5

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Italy	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0			3	6	0
Japan	4	0	1	5	0	2	0	1			13	11	0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Chinese Taipei	4	0	0	1	1	3	2				11	13	0
Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0	6	0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Cuba	0	6	0	6	0	6	0				18	16	1
Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0	2	5

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Puerto Rico	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0		2	15	3
United States	3	0	3	0	0	0	1	1	x		8	9	1

Round 6

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Puerto Rico	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	0		4	10	3
Cuba	4	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	x		9	15	2

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Chinese Taipei	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1		2	7	1
Japan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	3	0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Spain	0	0	3	1	0	0	0				4	8	3
Italy	1	2	2	2	5	1	1				14	14	0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0	2	3
United States	0	3	0	1	4	1	1				10	11	1

Round 7

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10		R	H	E
Dominican Republic	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	2	2		7	13	4
Italy	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0		5	10	2

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Puerto Rico	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	3		6	12	3
Spain	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	3		7	10	1

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Japan	0	1	0	0	0	4	1	0	1		7	14	0
United States	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		1	7	0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Chinese Taipei	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0		1	6	1
Cuba	0	3	0	0	3	0	2	0	x		8	13	2

Knockout round

Semi-finals		Final



Cuba	6

United States	1
		Cuba	11

		Chinese Taipei	1
Chinese Taipei	5

Japan	2
		Third place



		United States	3

		Japan	8

Semifinals

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Chinese Taipei	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	0		5	9	0
Japan	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		2	5	0

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

Bronze medal match

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Japan	0	4	0	0	0	4	0	0	0		8	14	1
United States	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0		3	6	2

Final

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Cuba	2	0	2	1	0	1	2	1	2		11	18	2
Chinese Taipei	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0		1	4	3

Final standing

Place	Team
	Cuba
	Chinese Taipei
	Japan
4.	United States
5.	Puerto Rico
6.	Dominican Republic
7.	Italy
8.	Spain

1992 Olympic champions
Cuba First title

Statistical leaders

Source:^[10]

Batting

Statistic	Name	Total/Avg
Batting average*	Víctor Mesa	.556
Hits	Omar Linares	13
Runs	Omar Linares	11
Runs	Ermidelio Urrutia	11
Doubles	Ermidelio Urrutia	5
Triples	17 tied with	1
Home runs	4 tied with	3
Runs batted in	Wang Kuang-shih	12
Walks	Roberto Bianchi	9
Stolen bases	Calvin Murray	9
On-base percentage*	Víctor Mesa	.636
Slugging percentage*	Víctor Mesa	1.000
Slugging percentage*	Chang Wen-tsung	1.000
OPS*	Víctor Mesa	1.636

* Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per team game

Pitching

Statistic	Name	Total/Avg
Wins	4 tied with	2
Saves	4 tied with	1
Innings pitched	Kuo Lee Chien-fu	20
Earned run average*	6 tied with	0.00
Strikeouts	Tomohito Ito	20
Walks allowed*	Giorge Díaz	0
Walks allowed*	Katsumi Watanabe	0
BAA*	Kuo Lee Chien-fu	.095

* Minimum 0.8 innings pitched per team game

Schedule

Baseball events took place over 11 days, from July 26 to August 5.

July 26
- ITA - TPE (10:30, L'Hospitalet)
- DOM - CUB (10:30, Viladecans)
- USA - ESP (18:00, L'Hospitalet)
- JPN - PUR (18:00, Viladecans)
July 27
- USA - TPE (15:00, L'Hospitalet)
- CUB - ITA (15:00, Viladecans)
- DOM - PUR (21:00, L'Hospitalet)
- ESP - JPN (21:00, Viladecans)
July 28
- PUR - TPE (15:00, L'Hospitalet)
- ITA - USA (15:00, Viladecans)
- CUB - JPN (21:00, L'Hospitalet)
- ESP - DOM (21:00, Viladecans)
July 29
- JPN - DOM (15:00, L'Hospitalet)
- ITA - PUR (15:00, Viladecans)
- USA - CUB (21:00, L'Hospitalet)
- ESP - TPE (21:00, Viladecans)
July 31
- ITA - JPN (15:00, L'Hospitalet)
- TPE - DOM (15:00, Viladecans)
- CUB - ESP (21:00, L'Hospitalet)
- PUR - USA (21:00, Viladecans)
August 1
- PUR - CUB (15:00, L'Hospitalet)
- TPE - JPN (15:00, Viladecans)
- ESP - ITA (21:00, L'Hospitalet)
- DOM - USA (21:00, Viladecans)
August 2
- DOM - ITA (15:00, L'Hospitalet)
- PUR - ESP (15:00, Viladecans)
- JPN - USA (21:00, L'Hospitalet)
- TPE - CUB (21:00, Viladecans)
August 4
- TPE - JPN (15:00, L'Hospitalet)
- USA - CUB (21:00, L'Hospitalet)
August 5
- JPN - USA (15:00, L'Hospitalet)
- CUB - TPE (21:00, L'Hospitalet)

References

↑ "The Magic Number for Baseball Is 1992--as an Olympic Sport". Los Angeles Times. 14 October 1986. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
↑ "On 26 July 1992 the first Olympic baseball game was played as a medal sport". wbsc.org. 27 July 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
↑ Preston, Mike (August 6, 1992). "Dismayed U.S. Beaten at Its Own Game". Los Angeles Times. p. C7. Retrieved August 8, 2021 – via newspapers.com.
↑ Harral, Emily (2018). The Utility Player: An Examination of the Role of Baseball in Cuban Society (BA thesis). University of Mississippi.
↑ "The Olympic Team No Dream". CBS News. Associated Press. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
↑ OlympicTalk (January 8, 2021). "Tommy Lasorda, only manager of World Series, Olympic champions, dies at 93 - OlympicTalk | NBC Sports". Olympics.nbcsports.com.
↑ Barcelona 1992 Baseball Results olympics.com
↑ "Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad, Barcelona 1992, v. 2". Barcelona Olympic Organising Committee. p. 314. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
↑ Barcelona Olympic Organising Committee, p. 317
↑ "Stats - Baseball Olympic Games 1992". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 18 July 2026.

External links

Barcelona 1992 – Baseball Men Results at Olympics.com

[1] "The Magic Number for Baseball Is 1992--as an Olympic Sport". Los Angeles Times. 14 October 1986. Retrieved 9 March 2025.

[2] "On 26 July 1992 the first Olympic baseball game was played as a medal sport". wbsc.org. 27 July 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2025.

[preston-3] Preston, Mike (August 6, 1992). "Dismayed U.S. Beaten at Its Own Game". Los Angeles Times. p. C7. Retrieved August 8, 2021 – via newspapers.com.

[4] Harral, Emily (2018). The Utility Player: An Examination of the Role of Baseball in Cuban Society (BA thesis). University of Mississippi.

[5] "The Olympic Team No Dream". CBS News. Associated Press. Retrieved July 31, 2018.

[6] OlympicTalk (January 8, 2021). "Tommy Lasorda, only manager of World Series, Olympic champions, dies at 93 - OlympicTalk | NBC Sports". Olympics.nbcsports.com.

[7] Barcelona 1992 Baseball Results olympics.com

[8] "Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad, Barcelona 1992, v. 2". Barcelona Olympic Organising Committee. p. 314. Retrieved 4 March 2025.

[9] Barcelona Olympic Organising Committee, p. 317

[10] "Stats - Baseball Olympic Games 1992". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 18 July 2026.

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