Baseball at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Baseball at the 1988 Summer Olympics was a demonstration sport for the seventh time. Eight teams competed in Seoul in the baseball tournament. The format used was the same as the tournament of four years earlier. Five teams that had competed in the 1984 tournament returned.

Preliminary round

There were two pools for the preliminary round. Teams played each of the three other teams in their division.

* Blue Division
** bb|TPE
** bb|JPN
** bb|NED
** bb|PUR|1952

* White Division
** bb|AUS
** bb|CAN
** bb|KOR
** bb|USA

Blue Division

Round 1

*, 1-0
*, 1-0
*, 0-1
*, 0-1

Game 1, 20 September

Game 5, 22 September

White Division

Round 1

*, 1-0
*, 1-0
*, 0-1
*, 0-1

Game 1, 19 September

Game 5, 23 September

emifinals

The semifinals pitted the first-place team of each division against the second-place team of the other division. Thus, Japan (3-0) played against Korea (2-1), which had a tied record with the United States (2-1) but had lost in head-to-head competition against them. The first-place Americans played against Puerto Rico (2-1).

Game 1, 26 September

First-place final

The winners of the semifinals played each other for first and second place. In a rematch of the 1984 final, the reigning champion Japanese team lost to the United States. Since baseball was a demonstration sport, medals "were" awarded, but the medals were not "official" (and did not count in the respective nations' medal totals).

7 August

References

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* [http://www.aafla.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1988/1988v2.pdf Official Report] . Official Report Volume 2: Competition Summary and Results. 1988.