Baseball at the 2003 Pan American Games explained

Event:	Baseball
Games:	2003
Venue:	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Competitors:	9 teams
Prev:	1999
Next:	2007

Baseball at the 2003 Pan American Games was contested between teams representing Bahamas, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and the United States. The 2003 edition was the 14th Pan American Games, and was hosted by Santo Domingo.

Cuba entered the competition as the eight-time defending champions, having won each gold medal dating back to 1971. They successfully defended their title, with the United States finishing second.

Medal summary

Medalists

Men's

Rigo Beltrán
Lorenzo Buelna
Francisco Campos
Hugo Castellanos
Francisco Córdova
Luis García
Heber Gómez
Julio Hernández
Édgar Huerta
Edgar Leyva
Ray Martínez
Roberto Méndez
Eleazar Mora
Noé Muñoz
Pablo Ortega
Carlos Rodríguez
Salvador Rodríguez
Raúl Sánchez
Mario Santana
Roberto Saucedo
Mario Váldez
Julio Valerio

Tournament

The competition had nine teams divided in two groups. In each group, each team played against all others once and the eight best records advanced to the quarterfinals. The best team from Group A played the lowest ranked team from Group B and vice versa. Ties within a group were broken by the team allowing the fewest runs passing to the knockout round.

Preliminary round

Group A

width=220	Team	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	RF	width=20	RA	width=20	Pct
align=left	Mexico	3	2	1			0.667
align=left	Cuba	3	2	1			0.667
align=left	Brazil	3	1	2			0.333
align=left	Panama	3	1	2			0.333

Group B

width=220	Team	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	RF	width=20	RA	width=20	Pct
align=left	Nicaragua	4	4	0			1.000
align=left	USA	4	3	1			0.750
align=left	Dominican Republic	4	2	2			0.500
align=left	Guatemala	4	1	3			0.250
align=left	Bahamas	4	0	4			0.000