Baseball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Women's tournament explained
The women's baseball tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, was held at the President's Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark in Ajax, from July 20 to 26.[1] Women's baseball was making its Pan American Games debut, after being added to the program at the 2013 Pan American Sports Organization's general assembly.[2] All women's matches happened on the main field.
For these Games, the women competed in a 5-team tournament. The teams were grouped into one single pool and all teams played each other in a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams after the round robin played for gold, and teams ranked third and fourth contested the bronze-medal match.[3]
Qualification
A total of five women's team qualified to compete at the games. Canada as host nation qualified automatically, along with the top four nations at the qualification event held in March 2015. Women's rosters can have a maximum of 18 athletes.[4]
Summary
| Event | Date | Location | Vacancies | Qualified |
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| Host Nation | | | align=center | 1 | |
| 2015 Pan American Women's Baseball Championships[5] | March 8–15 |  Concepción de la Vega | align=center | 4 |
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| Total | | | 5 | | |
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Medalists
| [6] [7] | [8] | [9] - Migreily Ángulo
- Ofelia Arrieche
- Sor Brito
- Dayvis Cazorla
- Giddelys Cumana
- Ingrid Escobar
- Osmari Garcia
- Daily Gimenez
- Lelis Gomez
- Oriannys Hernandez
- Kerlys Pérez
- Marianne Pérez
- Esquia Rengel
- Leonela Reyes
- Maria Rincon
- Astrid Rodriguez
- Patricia Segovia
- Maigleth Torres
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Rosters
See main article: Baseball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Women's team rosters. At the start of tournament, all five participating countries had up to 18 players on their rosters.
Results
The official detailed schedule was revealed on April 20, 2015.[10]
All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)
Preliminary round
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Medal round
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Final standings
| width=40 | Rank | width=180 | Team | width=60 | Record |
|---|
| | 5–0 |
| | 4–2 |
| | 2–3 |
| 4 | | 1–3 |
| 5 | | 0–4 | |
Notes and References
- Web site: Pan Am Games Detailed Competition Schedule . September 15, 2014 . toronto2015.org . . September 16, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141018053743/http://images.toronto2015.org/system/asset_pdfs/2138/original/pan-am-games-detailed-schedule.pdf?1410780010 . October 18, 2014 . dead .
- Web site: 2015 Pan Am Games to include women's baseball . February 11, 2013 . baseball.ca/ . . October 28, 2014.
- Web site: Sport Technical Manual Baseball . scribd.com . . June 13, 2015.
- Web site: Sources: MLB to allow minor leaguers to play in Pan American Games . Morosi . Jon Paul . January 21, 2014 . foxsports.com/ . . January 22, 2014.
- Web site: USA wins Women's Baseball Pan Am Qualifier . March 12, 2015 . ibaf.org/ . International Baseball Federation (IBAF) . March 15, 2015.
- Web site: 2015 Women's Pan American Games Roster . USAbaseball.com . . January 13, 2016 . August 14, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170814053317/http://web.usabaseball.com/womens_national_team.jsp . dead .
- Web site: Baseball: Women: Team Roster: USA - United States . Toronto2015.org . Pan American Games . July 19, 2015 . January 13, 2016.
- Web site: Baseball: Women: Team Roster: CAN - Canada . Toronto2015.org . Pan American Games . July 19, 2015 . January 13, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111427/http://results.toronto2015.org/IRS/resTO2015/pdf/TO2015/BB/TO2015_BB_C33_BBW400000C_CAN.pdf . March 4, 2016 . dead .
- Web site: Baseball: Women: Team Roster: VEN - Venezuela . Toronto2015.org . Pan American Games . July 19, 2015 . January 13, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111427/http://results.toronto2015.org/IRS/resTO2015/pdf/TO2015/BB/TO2015_BB_C33_BBW400000C_CAN.pdf . March 4, 2016 . dead .
- News: Kennedy . Brendan . April 20, 2015 . Pan Am Games baseball schedule announced . . Toronto, Canada . April 25, 2015.
