Softball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

Softball – Men's tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games
Softball – Men's tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games
Venue	Pan Am Ball Park
Dates	July 12 – 18
Competitors	90 from 6 nations
Medalists
	Canada
	Venezuela
	Argentina
	«2003 2019»

The men's softball tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, was held at the Pan Am Ball Park in Ajax, Ontario from July 12 to 18.^[1]

Men's softball returned to the Pan American Games sports program after last being competed in 2003.^[2]

For these Games, the men competed in a 6-team tournament. The teams were grouped into one single pool and all teams played each other in a round-robin preliminary round. The top four teams would advance to the semifinals.^[3]

Qualification

A total of six men's team qualified to compete at the games. Canada as host nation qualified automatically, along with the top five nations at the qualification event held in October 2014.^[4] Each team can contain a maximum of fifteen athletes.^[5]

Summary

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	—	—	1	Canada
2014 Pan American Championship	October 25 – November 1	Paraná	5	Venezuela Argentina United States Dominican Republic Mexico
TOTAL			6

Rosters

At the start of tournament, all six participating countries had up to 15 players on their rosters.^[5]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Canada Ryan Boland Sean Cleary Jeff Ellsworth Brad Ezekiel Ian Fehrman Jason Hill Brandon Horn Paul Koert Derek Mayson Steve Mullaley Mathieu Roy Jason Sanford Kevin Schellenberg Andy Skelton Ryan Wolfe	Venezuela Arturo Acacio Yeider Chirinos Joan Colombo Rafael Flores Pedro Gonzalez Ramon Jones Jorge Lima Edwin Linares Tulio Linares Iran Paez Luiger Pinto Kerlis Rivero Rogelio Sequera Erick Urbaneja John Zambrano	Argentina Mauricio Caceres Santiago Carril Sebastian Gervasutti Gustavo Godoy Manuel Godoy Roman Godoy Juan Malarczuk Huemul Mata Teo Migliavacca Mariano Montero Pablo Montero Bruno Motroni Fernando Petric Juan Potolicchio Juan Zara

Competition format

In the first round of the competition, teams were divided into one pool of six teams, and play followed round robin format with each of the teams playing all other teams in the pool once.^[5]

Following the completion of the pool games, the top four teams advanced to a page playoff round consisting of two semifinal games, and the final and grand final. All games were played over seven innings.^[5]

Results

The official detailed schedule was revealed on May 1, 2015.^[6]

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)

Preliminary round

The Pan Am Ball Park in Ajax, the venue for the men's softball competition

Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	Qualification
Canada	5	5	0	33	13	+20	Qualified for the semifinals
Argentina	5	3	2	19	15	+4
Venezuela	5	3	2	14	10	+4
United States	5	2	3	16	10	+6
Mexico	5	2	3	16	22	−6
Dominican Republic	5	0	5	5	33	−28

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Home team in each game is listed first.

12 July 2015 10:00	Dominican Republic	0–10	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 1,010
		Boxscore

12 July 2015 16:30	Argentina	3–0	Venezuela	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 200
		Boxscore

12 July 2015 19:00	Canada	10–5	Mexico	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 1,243
		Boxscore

13 July 2015 14:00	Mexico	5–3	Argentina	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 220
		Boxscore

13 July 2015 16:30	Venezuela	5–1	Dominican Republic	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 129
		Boxscore

13 July 2015 19:00	United States	2–3	Canada	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 2,230
		Boxscore

14 July 2015 14:00	United States	1–3	Venezuela	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 132
		Boxscore

14 July 2015 16:30	Dominican Republic	2–4	Mexico	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 363
		Boxscore

14 July 2015 19:00	Argentina	3–9	Canada	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 2,890
		Boxscore

15 July 2015 14:00	Venezuela	5–1	Mexico	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 215
		Boxscore

15 July 2015 16:30	Argentina	3–1	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 301
		Boxscore

15 July 2015 19:00	Canada	7–2	Dominican Republic	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 632
		Boxscore

16 July 2015 14:00	Dominican Republic	0–7	Argentina	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 340
		Boxscore

16 July 2015 16:30	Canada	4–1	Venezuela	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 2,010
		Boxscore

16 July 2015 19:00	Mexico	1–2	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 89
		Boxscore

Medal round


Semifinals			Final			Grand Final



1	Canada	2				1	Canada	2

2	Argentina	0				3	Venezuela	1

			2	Argentina	0

			3	Venezuela	2

3	Venezuela	1

4	United States	0

Semifinals

17 July 2015 16:30	Venezuela	1–0	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 521
		Boxscore

17 July 2015 19:00	Canada	2–0	Argentina	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 1,030
		Boxscore

Final

18 July 2015 12:00	Argentina	0–2	Venezuela	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 2,999
		Boxscore

Grand Final

18 July 2015 15:00	Canada	2–1	Venezuela	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 3,030
		Boxscore

2015 Pan American Games winners
Canada 8th title

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record
	Canada	7 – 0
	Venezuela	5 – 3
	Argentina	3 – 4
4	United States	2 – 4
5	Mexico	2 – 3
6	Dominican Republic	0 – 5

References

^ "Pan Am Games Detailed Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 15 September 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
^ "Men's and Women's Softball Selected to 2015 Pan American Games Program". softball.bc.ca/. Softball BC. February 12, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
^ McNair, Brian (1 May 2015). "Softball medals expected for Canada at Pan Am Games in Ajax". durhamregion.com. Ajax, Ontario. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
^ "Throwing error costly for Canada at Pan American softball tournament". The Guardian (Charlottetown). Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. 1 November 2014. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Sport Technical Manual Softball". scribd.com. TO2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
^ "Pan Am softball schedule features Canada, U.S. rivalry". CBC Sports. Toronto, Canada. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2015.

[1] "Pan Am Games Detailed Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 15 September 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.

[a-2] "Men's and Women's Softball Selected to 2015 Pan American Games Program". softball.bc.ca/. Softball BC. February 12, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2014.

[3] McNair, Brian (1 May 2015). "Softball medals expected for Canada at Pan Am Games in Ajax". durhamregion.com. Ajax, Ontario. Retrieved 10 May 2015.

[4] "Throwing error costly for Canada at Pan American softball tournament". The Guardian (Charlottetown). Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. 1 November 2014. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.

[roster-5] "Sport Technical Manual Softball". scribd.com. TO2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.

[6] "Pan Am softball schedule features Canada, U.S. rivalry". CBC Sports. Toronto, Canada. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2015.

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