Baseball at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games

The baseball competition at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games was held at the Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa in San Salvador, El Salvador from 25 June to 1 July 2023.^[1]^[2]

The top three teams qualify to the 2023 Pan American Games.^[3]

Participating nations

A total of eight countries qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.^[4]

Cuba (24)
Curaçao (24)
Dominican Republic (24)
El Salvador (24)
Mexico (24)
Nicaragua (24)
Puerto Rico (24)
Venezuela (24)

Medal table

* Host nation (El Salvador)

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men’s tournament	Mexico Jasson Atondo Emmanuel Ávila Faustino Carrera Fabián Cota Fernando Flores Edson García David Gutiérrez Moisés Gutiérrez Francisco Haro Arturo López Víctor Mendoza Luis Miranda Aldo Montes Héctor Mora Carlos Morales Yoanner Negrín Norberto Obeso Wilmer Ríos Randy Romero Rainel Rosario Alexandro Tovalín Fernando Villegas Alexis Wilson Samuel Zazueta	Cuba Erisbel Arruebarrena Guillermo Avilés Jonathan Carbó Naikel Cruz Dayán García Yasniel González Yurisbel Gracial Yoelkis Guibert Andrés Hernández Yunior Ibarra Javier Mirabal Yordan Manduley Luis Mateo Yadil Mujica Miguel Neira Andrys Pérez Franky Quintana Yeudis Reyes Renner Rivero José Ramón Rodríguez Raico Santos Roel Santos Carlos Viera Yoennis Yera	Venezuela Oscar Abreu Iván Andueza Derwin Barreto Michael Chirinos Carlos Chourio José García Dannys Hernández Juan Infante Junnell Ledezma Ángel León José Martínez Anderson Meléndez Alex Monsalve César Ortega José Ortega Jonel Pacheco Eduardo Paredes Sebastián Perrone Yoandy Rea Wuilder Rodríguez Brayan Salaya Carlos Valero Sonny Vargas Wuilman Velásquez

First round

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Mexico	6	5	1	33	11	+22	.833	—	Advance to Gold medal game
2	Cuba	7	5	2	54	17	+37	.714	0.5	Advance to Gold medal game
3	Dominican Republic	6	4	2	30	26	+4	.667	1	Advance to Bronze medal game
4	Venezuela	7	4	3	25	35	−10	.571	1.5	Advance to Bronze medal game
5	Curaçao	6	3	3	26	29	−3	.500	2
6	Nicaragua	6	2	4	17	31	−14	.333	3
7	Puerto Rico	5	1	4	15	19	−4	.200	3.5
8	El Salvador (H)	5	0	5	9	41	−32	.000	4.5

Source: San Salvador 2023 – XXIV Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe
(H) Hosts

Results

24 June 2023 9:30 (UTC–6)	Mexico	4–0	Cuba	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
		Boxscore

24 June 2023 13:00 (UTC–6)	Puerto Rico	3–4	Venezuela	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
		Boxscore

24 June 2023 16:30 (UTC–6)	Dominican Republic	6–5 (F/8)	Nicaragua	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
		Boxscore

24 June 2023 20:00 (UTC–6)	Curaçao	12–4	El Salvador	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
		Boxscore

25 June 2023 9:30 (UTC–6)	Venezuela	5–2	Dominican Republic	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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25 June 2023 13:00 (UTC–6)	Cuba	4–2	Curaçao	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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25 June 2023 16:30 (UTC–6)	Nicaragua	3–1	Puerto Rico	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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25 June 2023 20:00 (UTC–6)	El Salvador	0–4	Mexico	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
		Boxscore

26 June 2023 9:30 (UTC–6)	Puerto Rico	Cancelled	Dominican Republic	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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26 June 2023 13:00 (UTC–6)	Mexico	Cancelled	Curaçao	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
		Boxscore

26 June 2023 20:00 (UTC–6)	Nicaragua	Cancelled	El Salvador	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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27 June 2023 14:30 (UTC–6)	Curaçao	4–3	Venezuela	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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27 June 2023 17:30 (UTC–6)	Nicaragua	0–7	Mexico	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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27 June 2023 20:30 (UTC–6)	Cuba	4–5 (F/8)	Puerto Rico	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
		Boxscore

28 June 2023 11:00 (UTC–6)	Puerto Rico	2–3	Curaçao	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
		Boxscore

28 June 2023 14:10 (UTC–6)	Venezuela	4–1	Nicaragua	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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28 June 2023 17:10 (UTC–6)	Dominican Republic	6–2	Mexico	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
		Boxscore

28 June 2023 20:30 (UTC–6)	El Salvador	2–6	Dominican Republic	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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29 June 2023 10:00 (UTC–6)	Cuba	15–0 (F/5)	El Salvador	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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29 June 2023 13:00 (UTC–6)	Dominican Republic	0–12 (F/6)	Cuba	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
		Boxscore

29 June 2023 15:05 (UTC–6)	Puerto Rico	4–5	Mexico	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
		Boxscore

29 June 2023 18:00 (UTC–6)	Curaçao	5–6 (F/8)	Nicaragua	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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30 June 2023 11:00 (UTC–6)	El Salvador	3–4 (F/8)	Venezuela	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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30 June 2023 15:15 (UTC–6)	Nicaragua	2–8	Cuba	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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30 June 2023 16:20 (UTC–6)	Curaçao	0–10 (F/6)	Dominican Republic	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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30 June 2023 17:00 (UTC–6)	Mexico	11–1 (F/5)	Venezuela	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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30 June 2023 19:30 (UTC–6)	El Salvador	Cancelled	Puerto Rico	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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1 July 2023 10:00 (UTC–6)	Venezuela	4–11	Cuba	Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa, San Salvador
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Medal games

Bronze medal game

1 July 2023 13:30 at Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa in San Salvador
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	R	H	E
Dominican Republic	2	0	1	3	0	0	0	1	7	9	1
Venezuela	0	0	5	0	0	1	0	2	8	9	0
WP: Eduardo Paredes LP: Hansel Paulino Home runs: DOM: Ricardo Céspedes (1), Adrián Valerio (1) VEN: None Boxscore

Gold medal game

1 July 2023 at Parque Nacional de Pelota Saturnino Bengoa in San Salvador
Team
Cuba
Mexico
Notes: Game cancelled due to weather conditions. Mexico wins gold medal due to first round record. Boxscore

Statistical leaders

Batting

Statistic	Name	Total
Batting average	Fernando Villegas	.611
Hits	Yoelkis Guibert	13
Runs	Fernando Villegas	10
Home runs	Fernando Villegas	4
Runs batted in	Fernando Villegas	13
Slugging percentage	Fernando Villegas	1.444

Source:^[5]

Pitching

Statistic	Name	Total
Wins	4 tied with^{[note 1]}	2
Losses	4 tied with^{[note 2]}	2
Saves	Eduardo Paredes	3
Innings pitched	Yoennis Yera	10
Innings pitched	Wilmer Ríos	10
Earned runs allowed	4 tied with^{[note 3]}	0.00
Strikeouts	Yoennis Yera	16

Source:^[5]

Notes

References

^ "Calendario". San Salvador 2023 – XXIV Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 June 2023.
^ "Central American and Caribbean Games open in San Salvador; Baseball and men's softball tournaments to start on 24 June; Watch live on GameTime". WBSC.org. World Baseball Softball Confederation. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
^ "Central American and Caribbean Games: 'El Che' Reyes to manage Mexico; Watch baseball and softball plus 36 other sports on GameTime". WBSC.org. World Baseball Softball Confederation. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
^ "Men's team". San Salvador 2023 – XXIV Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Stats". wbscamericas.org. WBSC Americas. Retrieved 29 June 2023.

External links

[first-6] Eduardo Paredes, Hansel Paulino, Wilmer Ríos, Yoennis Yera

[second-7] Jordan Lucas, Luis Mateo, Wilfredo Ramírez, Andrés Santiago

[third-8] Jonathan Carbó, Eduardo Paredes, Luis Miranda, Faustino Carrera

[1] "Calendario". San Salvador 2023 – XXIV Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 June 2023.

[2] "Central American and Caribbean Games open in San Salvador; Baseball and men's softball tournaments to start on 24 June; Watch live on GameTime". WBSC.org. World Baseball Softball Confederation. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.

[3] "Central American and Caribbean Games: 'El Che' Reyes to manage Mexico; Watch baseball and softball plus 36 other sports on GameTime". WBSC.org. World Baseball Softball Confederation. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.

[4] "Men's team". San Salvador 2023 – XXIV Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe. Retrieved 25 June 2023.

[stats-5] "Stats". wbscamericas.org. WBSC Americas. Retrieved 29 June 2023.

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	0	1
2	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	0	1
3	Venezuela (VEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3