# Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from August 13 to August 23. All games were played at Wukesong Baseball Field, a temporary venue constructed at the Beijing Wukesong Culture & Sports Center. For the third time in Olympic competition, professional baseball players were eligible to participate, though no active players from Major League Baseball were available.
This was the last Olympic baseball tournament before the International Olympic Committee voted to remove baseball from the program in the 2012 Olympics. Along with softball, baseball was rejected for inclusion in the 2016 Summer Olympics at the IOC's meeting in October 2009. However, following a 2016 IOC vote, baseball was again included for the 2020 Games.
This was also the first time that the IBAF's new extra-innings rule was officially in effect, allowing each team to start with two base runners from the 11th inning on. South Korea won the gold medal in a 3–2 final victory against Cuba. The United States won bronze.

## Venues

Beijing :
| Wukesong Baseball Main Field | Wukesong Baseball Field 2 |
| Capacity: 12,000 | Capacity: 3,000 |

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| South Korea (KOR) Hyun-Jin Ryu Ki-Joo Han Jin-Man Park Hyuk Kwon Taek-Keun Lee Dae-Ho Lee Seung-Hwan Oh Jung-Keun Bong Young-Min Ko Jong-Wook Lee Keun-Woo Jeong Min-Jae Kim Kab-Yong Jin Jin-Young Lee Won-Sam Jang Seung-Jun Song Kwang-Hyun Kim Yong-Kyu Lee Dong-Joo Kim Min-Ho Kang Hyun-soo Kim Seung-Yeop Lee Tae-Hyon Chong Suk-Min YoonManager: Kyung-Moon Kim | Cuba (CUB) Ariel Pestano Yoandry Urgellés Alfredo Despaigne Luis Rodríguez Alexei Bell Yadier Pedroso Jonder Martínez Adiel Palma Luis Navas Giorvis Duvergel Alexander Mayeta Eriel Sánchez Rolando Meriño Héctor Olivera Michel Enríquez Yuliesky Gourriel Vicyohandry Odelín Pedro Luis Lazo Eduardo Paret Norberto González Norge Luis Vera Frederich Cepeda Elier Sánchez Miguel La HeraManager: Antonio Pacheco | United States (USA) Brett Anderson Blaine Neal Matt Brown Nate Schierholtz Jeremy Cummings Michael Koplove Terry Tiffee Kevin Jepsen Brian Duensing Dexter Fowler Brandon Knight Mike Hessman Casey Weathers Jason Donald Jayson Nix Taylor Teagarden Stephen Strasburg Jake Arrieta Lou Marson Matt LaPorta Trevor Cahill Brian Barden John Gall Jeff StevensManager: Davey Johnson |

## Competition format

Eight teams are competing in the Olympic baseball tournament, and the competition consists of two rounds. The preliminary round follows a round robin format, where each of the teams plays all the other teams once. Following this, the top four teams advance to a single elimination round culminating in the bronze and gold medal games.

## Qualification

| Event | Date | Location | Vacancies | Qualified |
| Host nation | Host nation | Host nation | Host nation | China |
| American Qualifying Tournament | Aug 25 – Sept 7, 2006 | Havana | 2 | United States Cuba |
| European Championship | Sept 7 – Sept 16, 2007 | Barcelona | 1 | Netherlands |
| Asian Baseball Championship | Nov 27 – Dec 3, 2007 | Taichung | 1 | Japan |
| Final Qualifying Tournament | Mar 7 – Mar 14, 2008 | Taichung and Douliou | 3 | Canada South Korea Chinese Taipei |
| TOTAL | | | 8 | |
^1 Chinese Taipei is the official IOC designation for the state officially referred to as the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan.

## Team squad

| Team | Qualification criteria | Appearance |
| Canada | 1st place of Final Qualifying Tournament | 2nd |
| China | Automatic as host nation of the Olympics | 1st |
| Chinese Taipei | 3rd place of Final Qualifying Tournament | 3rd |
| Cuba | 2nd place of American Qualifying Tournament | 5th |
| Japan | 1st place of Asian Baseball Championship | 5th |
| South Korea | 2nd place of Final Qualifying Tournament | 3rd |
| Netherlands | 1st place of European Championship | 4th |
| United States | 1st place of American Qualifying Tournament | 4th |

## Group stage

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | RF | RA | RD | PCT | GB | Qualification |
| 1 | South Korea | 7 | 7 | 0 | 41 | 22 | +19 | 1.000 | — | Advance to knockout round |
| 2 | Cuba | 7 | 6 | 1 | 52 | 23 | +29 | .857 | 1 | Advance to knockout round |
| 3 | United States | 7 | 5 | 2 | 40 | 22 | +18 | .714 | 2 | Advance to knockout round |
| 4 | Japan | 7 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 14 | +16 | .571 | 3 | Advance to knockout round |
| 5 | Chinese Taipei | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 33 | −4 | .286 | 5 | |
| 6 | Canada | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 20 | +9 | .286 | 5 | |
| 7 | Netherlands | 7 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 50 | −41 | .143 | 6 | |
| 8 | China (H) | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 60 | −46 | .143 | 6 | |
* 1 2 Chinese Taipei defeated Canada 6–5.
* 1 2 Netherlands defeated China 6–4.
| Team | G | W | L | RS | RA | WIN% | GB | Tiebreaker |
| South Korea | 7 | 7 | 0 | 41 | 22 | 1.000 | – | – |
| Cuba | 7 | 6 | 1 | 52 | 23 | .857 | 1 | – |
| United States | 7 | 5 | 2 | 40 | 22 | .714 | 2 | – |
| Japan | 7 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 14 | .571 | 3 | – |
| Chinese Taipei | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 33 | .286 | 5 | 1–0 |
| Canada | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 20 | .286 | 5 | 0–1 |
| Netherlands | 7 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 50 | .143 | 6 | 1–0 |
| China | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 60 | .143 | 6 | 0–1 |

### August 13

| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| WP: Wei-Yin Chen (1-0) LP: David Bergman (0-1) |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | - | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 8 | 2 |
| WP: Chris Begg (1-0) LP: Tao Bu (0-1) Home runs: CAN: Scott Thorman (1), Michael Saunders (1) CHN: None |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 1 |
| South Korea | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 1 |
| WP: Suk-Min Yoon (1-0) LP: Jeff Stevens (0-1) Home runs: USA: Nate Schierholtz (1), Mike Hessman (1) KOR: Dae-Ho Lee (1) |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| Cuba | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 | 9 | 1 |
| WP: Norge Luis Vera (1-0) LP: Yu Darvish (0-1) Sv: Pedro Luis Lazo (1) |||||||||||||

### August 14

| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| United States | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| WP: Stephen Strasburg (1-0) LP: Shairon Martis (0-1) Home runs: USA: Matt Brown (1), Matt Laporta (1) NED: None |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | R | H | E |
| China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Canada | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 2 |
| Cuba | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | X | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| WP: Vicyohandri Odelín (1-0) LP: Jonathan Lockwood (0-1) Sv: Norberto González (1) Home runs: CAN: Michael Saunders (2), Nick Weglarz 2 (2) CUB: Alexander Malleta (1), Alfredo Despaigne (1) |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 1 |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| WP: Hideaki Wakui (1-0) LP: Fu-Te Ni (0-1) Home runs: JPN: Shinnosuke Abe (1) TPE: None |||||||||||||

### August 15

| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | R | H | E |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 1 |
| China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 3 |
| WP: Jiangang Lv (1-0) LP: Chien-Fu Yang (0-1) Home runs: TPE: Kuo-Hui Lo (1) CHN: None ||||||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | R | H | E |
| Cuba | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| WP: Pedro Luis Lazo (1-0) LP: Jeff Stevens (0-2) Home runs: CUB: Alfredo Despaigne (2) USA: Jayson Nix (1) |||||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| WP: Hyun-Jin Ryu (1-0) LP: Mike Johnson (0-1) Home runs: KOR: Keun-Woo Jeong (1) CAN: None |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Japan | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | X | 6 | 10 | 0 |
| WP: Toshiya Sugiuchi (1-0) LP: Alexander Smit (0-1) Home runs: NED: None JPN: Takahiko Sato (1) |||||||||||||

### August 16

| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Canada | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 5 | 9 | 1 |
| WP: Brian Duensing (1-0) LP: Chris Reitsma (0-1) Home runs: CAN: None USA: Brian Barden (1) |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Cuba | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| WP: Elier Sánchez (1-0) LP: Chen-Chang Lee (0-1) Sv: Norberto González (2) Home runs: TPE: None CUB: Frederich Cepeda (1) |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 1 |
| China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 1 |
| WP: Leon Boyd (1-0) LP: Kai Liu (0-1) Sv: David Bergman (1) Home runs: NED: Sharnol Adriana (1), Sidney de Jong (1), Bryan Engelhardt (1) CHN: None |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 1 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| WP: Suk-Min Yoon (2-0) LP: Hitoki Iwase (0-1) Sv: Tae-Hyon Chong (1) Home runs: KOR: Dae-Ho Lee (2) JPN: Takahiro Arai (1) |||||||||||||

### August 17

| Team | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | R | H | E |
| China | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| WP: Seung-Hwan Oh (1-0) LP: Jiangang Lu (1-1) ||||||||||

### August 18

| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| WP: Yoshihisa Naruse (1-0) LP: Chris Begg (1-1) Sv: Koji Uehara (1) Home runs: JPN: Atsunori Inaba (1) CAN: None |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| South Korea | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 16 | 2 |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 2 |
| WP: Ki-Joo Han (1-0) LP: Fu-Te Ni (0-2) Sv: Suk-Min Yoon (1) Home runs: KOR: Young-Min Ko (1) TPE: None |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Cuba | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 4 | - | 14 | 16 | 0 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | 3 | 10 | 2 |
| WP: Jonder Martínez (1-0) LP: Juan Carlos Sulbaran (0-1) Home runs: CUB: None NED: Bryan Engelhardt (2), Percy Isenia (1) |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | X | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| WP: Jake Arrieta (1-0) LP: Chenhao Li (0-1) Home runs: CHN: Yang Yang (1) USA: None |||||||||||||

### August 19

| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 1 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| WP: Brooks McNiven (1-0) LP: Shairon Martis (0-2) |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Cuba | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | X | 7 | 9 | 0 |
| WP: Seung-Jun Song (1-0) LP: Vicyohandri Odelín (1-1) Sv: Seung-Hwan Oh (1) |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Japan | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | X | - | - | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| WP: Hideaki Wakui (2-0) LP: Nan Wang (0-1) Home runs: CHN: None JPN: Tsuyoshi Nishioka (1) |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | X | 4 | 10 | 2 |
| WP: Brandon Knight (1-0) LP: Wen-Hsiung Hsu (0-1) Sv: Kevin Jepsen (1) Home runs: TPE: Chih-Sheng Lin (1) USA: John Gall (1) |||||||||||||

### August 20

| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Cuba | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | X | - | - | 17 | 20 | 0 |
| WP: Jonder Martínez (2-0) LP: Tao Bu (0-2) Home runs: CHN: None CUB: Giorbis Duvergel (1), Michel Enríquez (1), Ariel Pestano (1) |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| South Korea | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | - | 10 | 16 | 1 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| WP: Won-Sam Jang (1-0) LP: Alexander Smit (0-2) Home runs: KOR: Dae-Ho Lee (3), Taek-Keun Lee (1) NED: None |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | R | H | E |
| Chinese Taipei | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
| Canada | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 3 |
| WP: Fu-Te Ni (1-2) LP: Chris Reitsma (0-2) Sv: Chih-Chia Chang (1) Home runs: TPE: Chih-Sheng Lin (2), Che-Hsuan Lin (1) CAN: Stubby Clapp (1) ||||||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | R | H | E |
| United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| WP: Jeff Stevens (1-2) LP: Hitoki Iwase (0-2) Sv: Casey Weathers (1) |||||||||||||||

## Knockout stage

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Gold Medal Match | Gold Medal Match |
| 2008-08-22 - Beijing | 2008-08-22 - Beijing |
| Japan | 2 |
| Japan | 2 | 2008-08-23 - Beijing | 2008-08-23 - Beijing |
| South Korea | 6 | 2008-08-23 - Beijing | 2008-08-23 - Beijing |
| South Korea | 6 | South Korea | 3 |
| 2008-08-22 - Beijing | 2008-08-22 - Beijing | | South Korea | 3 |
| 2008-08-22 - Beijing | 2008-08-22 - Beijing | Cuba | 2 |
| United States | 2 | Cuba | 2 |
| Cuba | 10 | | |
| Cuba | 10 | Bronze Medal Match | Bronze Medal Match |
| | | 2008-08-23 - Beijing | 2008-08-23 - Beijing |
| | | Japan | 4 |
| | | United States | 8 |

### Semifinals

| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | X | 6 | 10 | 1 |
| WP: Kwang-Hyun Kim (1-0) LP: Hitoki Iwase (0-3) Home runs: JPN: None KOR: Seung-Yeop Lee (1) |||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Cuba | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | X | 10 | 14 | 2 |
| WP: Norge Luis Vera (2-0) LP: Stephen Strasburg (1-1) Sv: Pedro Luis Lazo (2) Home runs: USA: None CUB: Alfredo Despaigne (3), Frederich Cepeda (2), Alexei Bell (1), Ariel Pestano (2) |||||||||||||

### Bronze medal match

| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
| United States | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 8 | 9 | 0 |
| WP: Brett Anderson (1-0) LP: Kenshin Kawakami (0-1) Home runs: JPN: Masahiro Araki (1), Norichika Aoki (1) USA: Matt LaPorta (2), Matt Brown (2), Jason Donald (1) |||||||||||||

### Gold medal match

23 August 2008 18:00 WKB Main Field :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| South Korea | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Cuba | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| WP: Hyun-Jin Ryu (2-0) LP: Norberto González (0-1) Sv: Tae-Hyon Chong (2) Home runs: KOR: Seung-Yeop Lee (2) CUB: Michel Enríquez (2), Alexei Bell (2) |||||||||||||

## Final standings

| Place | Team |
| | South Korea |
| | Cuba |
| | United States |
| 4 | Japan |
| 5 | Chinese Taipei |
| 6 | Canada |
| 7 | Netherlands |
| 8 | China |
* 2008 Olympic champions
* South Korea First title