2012 European Baseball Championship Explained

Size:	250px
Country:	Netherlands
Dates:	7 – 16 September 2012
Num Teams:	12
Continents:	1
Defending Champion:	Italy
Prev Year:	2010
Medal Type:	europe
Champion:	Italy
Num Championships:	10
Second:	Netherlands
Third:	Spain
Fourth:	Germany
Games:	43
Attendance:	26200
Prevseason:	2010
Nextseason:	2014

The 2012 European Baseball Championship was an international baseball tournament being held from September 7 to September 16, 2012.^[1] The Confederation of European Baseball selected the Netherlands to host the tournament.

Qualification

See main article: 2012 European Baseball Championship – Qualification.

The following 12 teams qualified for the tournament.

Pool A		Pool B
width=125px		Winner of Zagreb Pool	width=125px		Winner of Antwerp Pool
	2010 European Baseball Championship
	Winner of Krymsk Pool		2010 European Baseball Championship
	Winner of Barcelona Pool		Winner of Tel Aviv Pool
			2010 European Baseball Championship

Round 1

Pool A

Standings

width=15px bgcolor="#cfc"		Qualified for Pool C
width=15px bgcolor=#fcc		Did not qualify for Pool C

width=150px	Teams	width=50px		width=50px		width=50px	Pct.	width=50px	GB	width=50px		width=50px
align=left		5	0	1.000	–	45	4
align=left		4	1	.800	1	42	6
align=left		3	2	.600	2	25	27
align=left		2	3	.400	3	19	29
align=left		1	4	.200	4	12	37
align=left		0	5	.000	5	11	51

Source: www.baseballstats.eu^[2]

Schedule

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Pool B

Standings

width=15px bgcolor="#cfc"		Qualified for Pool C
width=15px bgcolor=#fcc		Did not qualify for Pool C

width=150px	Teams	width=50px		width=50px		width=50px	Pct.	width=50px	GB	width=50px		width=50px
align=left		4	1	.800	–	55	5
align=left		4	1	.800	–	29	20
align=left		3	2	.600	1	26	16
align=left		2	3	.400	2	15	38
align=left		1	4	.200	3	23	55
align=left		1	4	.200	3	17	31

Source: www.baseballstats.eu

Schedule

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Classification games

7th place game

Source: www.baseballstats.eu

Round 2

Pool C

Standings

width=150px	Teams	width=50px		width=50px		width=50px	Pct.	width=50px	GB	width=50px		width=50px
align=left		5	0	1.000	–	22	7
align=left		3	2	.600	2	34	8
align=left		3	2	.600	2	30	18
align=left		2	3	.400	3	21	28
align=left		2	3	.400	3	18	21
align=left		0	5	.000	5	11	54

Source: www.baseballstats.eu

Schedule

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Final

Source: www.baseballstats.eu

Final standings

width=25	Rk	width=170	Team	width=25	W	width=25	L
		9	0
Lost in Gold medal game
		6	3
Failed to qualify for Gold medal game
		4	4
4		4	4
5		4	4
6		3	5
Failed to qualify for Round 2
7		3	3
8		2	4
Failed to qualify for the 7th place game
9		2	4
10		1	5
Failed to qualify for the 9th place game
11		2	4
12		0	6

Source: www.baseballstats.eu

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tournaments & Events Overview 2012 . 2011-07-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110728090926/http://www.baseballeurope.com/11/ . 2011-07-28 . dead .
2. Web site: European Championships Seniors '12: Standings. baseballstats.eu. baseballstats.eu. 16 September 2014.
3. Web site: European Championships Seniors '12: Schedule. baseballstats.eu. baseballstats.eu. 16 September 2014.