# Baseball at the 1990 Goodwill Games

Baseball was featured at the 1990 Goodwill Games. The tournament was contested from July 26 to 31 between eight national teams: hosts United States, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Soviet Union. All the games were played at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma. This tournament marked the Soviet Union baseball team's first appearance in an international competition.
Cuba won the gold medal by defeating Japan in the final, while the United States secured the bronze after defeating Canada. Puerto Rico finished fifth, followed by Chinese Taipei in sixth, Mexico in seventh, and the Soviet Union in eighth.
This was the first and only occasion that baseball was included in the Goodwill Games program.

## Venue

| Tacoma | Tacoma |
| Cheney Stadium | Tacoma |
| Capacity: 8,027 | Tacoma |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's tournament | Cuba Omar Ajete Luis Casanova Osvaldo Fernández Lourdes Gourriel Alberto Hernández Orlando Hernández Orestes Kindelán Omar Linares Javier Méndez Germán Mesa Víctor Mesa Antonio Pacheco Juan Padilla Pedro Rodríguez Euclides Rojas Reynaldo Santana Luis Ulacia Ermidelio Urrutia Jorge Luis Valdés Lázaro ValleManager: Servio Borges | Japan Chihiro Hamana Shigetoshi Hasegawa Shigeo Kajita Shinichiro Kawabata Hideo Koike Kojiri Machidam Kengo Makamura Kazuhiko Miyakawa Yoshitaka Mizuo Kazuki Mochiyama Hiroshi Narahara Eiji Ochiai Shinichi Okumura Katsuhito Osaka Kazuya Saito Koichi Sekikawa Terunobu Seto Shingo Takatsu Akihiro Yano Takayuki YokoiManager: Toshio Uchida | United States Jim Austin Doug Bennett Darren Bragg Roger Burnett Paul Byrd Joe Ciccarella Jorge Fábregas Brent Gates Chris Gomez Joey Hamilton Scott Hatteberg Mike Hostetler Damon Mashore David McCarty Darrin Paxton Aaron Sele Jo Jo Smith Phil Stidham Troy Tallman Pookie WilsonManager: Jim Morris |

## Round robin
### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | RF | RA | RD | PCT | GB | Qualification |
| 1 | Cuba | 3 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 11 | +20 | 1.000 | — | Advance to Semifinals |
| 2 | Canada | 3 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 28 | −4 | .667 | 1 | Advance to Semifinals |
| 3 | Puerto Rico | 3 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 17 | +1 | .333 | 2 | Advance to Classification games |
| 4 | Chinese Taipei | 3 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 33 | −17 | .000 | 3 | Advance to Classification games |

#### Results

| July 27, 1990 9:00 am (UTC–7) | Puerto Rico | 4 – 6 | Canada | Cheney Stadium, Tacoma |
| July 27, 1990 6:00 pm (UTC–7) | Chinese Taipei | 1 – 11 | Cuba | Cheney Stadium, Tacoma |
| July 28, 1990 5:30 pm (UTC–7) | Cuba | 6 – 3 | Puerto Rico | Cheney Stadium, Tacoma |
| July 28, 1990 9:00 pm (UTC–7) | Canada | 11 – 10 | Chinese Taipei | Cheney Stadium, Tacoma |
| July 29, 1990 5:30 pm (UTC–7) | Puerto Rico | 11 – 5 | Chinese Taipei | Cheney Stadium, Tacoma |
| July 29, 1990 9:00 pm (UTC–7) | Cuba | 14 – 7 | Canada | Cheney Stadium, Tacoma |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | RF | RA | RD | PCT | GB | Qualification |
| 1 | Japan | 3 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 10 | +22 | 1.000 | — | Advance to Semifinals |
| 2 | United States (H) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 38 | 9 | +29 | .667 | 1 | Advance to Semifinals |
| 3 | Mexico | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 27 | −12 | .333 | 2 | Advance to Classification games |
| 4 | Soviet Union | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 40 | −39 | .000 | 3 | Advance to Classification games |

#### Results

| July 26, 1990 5:30 pm (UTC–7) | Soviet Union | 0 – 17 (F/7) | United States | Cheney Stadium, Tacoma |
| July 27, 1990 12:30 pm (UTC–7) | Japan | 11 – 4 | Mexico | Cheney Stadium, Tacoma |
| July 28, 1990 9:00 am (UTC–7) | Soviet Union | 1 – 9 | Mexico | Cheney Stadium, Tacoma |
| July 28, 1990 12:30 pm (UTC–7) | United States | 6 – 7 | Japan | Cheney Stadium, Tacoma |
| July 29, 1990 9:00 am (UTC–7) | Japan | 14 – 0 | Soviet Union | Cheney Stadium, Tacoma |
| July 29, 1990 12:15 (UTC–7) | Mexico | 2 – 15 (F/7) | United States | Cheney Stadium, Tacoma |

## Knockout stage

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Gold medal game | Gold medal game |
| Cuba | 16 |
| United States | 2 | | |
| United States | 2 | Cuba | 6 |
| | | Japan | 1 |
| Japan | 15 | Japan | 1 |
| Canada | 8 | | |
| Canada | 8 | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game |
| | | United States | 10 |
| | | Canada | 4 |
| Classification | Classification | Fifth place | Fifth place |
| Puerto Rico | 13 |
| Soviet Union | 0 | | |
| Soviet Union | 0 | Puerto Rico | 10 |
| | | Chinese Taipei | 7 |
| Mexico | 7 | Chinese Taipei | 7 |
| Chinese Taipei | 9 | | |
| Chinese Taipei | 9 | Seventh place | Seventh place |
| | | Soviet Union | 4 |
| | | Mexico | 14 |

## Final standings

| Pos | Team | W | L |
| | Cuba | 5 | 0 |
| | Japan | 4 | 1 |
| | United States | 3 | 2 |
| 4 | Canada | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Puerto Rico | 3 | 2 |
| 6 | Chinese Taipei | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Mexico | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | Soviet Union | 0 | 5 |