The 2021 U-18 Baseball World Cup or the XXIX U-18 Baseball World Cup is an international baseball tournament held by the World Baseball Softball Confederation for players 18-year-old and younger held in Bradenton and Sarasota, Florida, USA. The event was originally scheduled in 2021, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was postponed to 2022.
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.
Pool APool B
1Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, due to complicated relations with People's Republic of China, is recognized by the name Chinese Taipei by most of the international organizations in sports competitions. For more information, please see Cross-Strait relations.
First round
Group A
Group B
Super round
Consolation round
Finals
Third-place game
Championship
Final standings RkTeamWL81Lost in final72Failed to qualify for the final63Lost in 3rd place game472Failed to qualify for the finals544635Failed to qualify for the super round744844935102611261208
U-18 All-World Team PositionPlayerC Shion Matsuo1B Yael Romero2B Luis Escudero 3B Dae-seon JeongSS Rosman VerdugoOF Hsin Chiu Jun-young Jeong Aidan MillerDH Bryce EldridgeP Shao-En Lin Shiki Kawahara
Statistics leaders Source:
Batting StatisticNameTotal/AvgBatting average* Aidan Miller.550Hits Antonis Macias13Runs Colt Emerson11 Aidan MillerDoubles Rosman Verdugo6Triples Aidan Miller3Home runs Bryce Eldridge2 Eric Guevara Aidan MillerRuns batted in Bryce Eldridge10 Dae-son Jeong Beom-seok KimWalks Chih-Yu Chen8 Yuta UtsumiStolen bases4 tied with5On-base percentage* Aidan Miller1.150Slugging percentage* Aidan Miller.643OPS* Aidan Miller1.793 * Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per team game
Pitching StatisticNameTotal/AvgWins Shiki Kawahara3 Young-cheol YoonSaves Yu-Cheng Wu2Innings pitched Robert White13Earned run average*5 tied with0.00Strikeouts Seo-hyeon Kim18Walks allowed* Shiki Kawahara0 Pietro VerzinBAA* Luis Aguilar.059 * Minimum 0.8 innings pitched per team game
References
External links Event Official Website at WBSC