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Baseball at the 2011 Pan American Games

Baseball at the XVI Pan American Games
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Venue Pan American Baseball Stadium
Dates October 19 – October 25
Competitors 190 from 8 nations
Medalists
Gold medal 
Silver medal 
Bronze medal 
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Qualified for the quarterfinals

Baseball at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara was held between October 19 and 25, 2011. All games were played at the Pan American Baseball Stadium in Lagos de Moreno. Pan American baseball is competed by men only, while women compete in the similar sport of softball. Each team can enter a team of 24 athletes for a maximum of 192 competitors for this tournament. The tournament was played using designated hitter rules. The draw for the competition took place in July 2011, in which the eight teams were drawn into two groups of four.

Cuba were the defending champions from the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, defeating the United States 3–1.

Canada won the gold medal defeating the United States 2–1 in the gold medal game.

The competition was spread out across seven days.

The hosts Mexico, along with the top seven teams at the Pan American Qualification tournament qualified to compete at the games.

Ties are broken via the following the criteria, with the first option used first, all the way down to the last option:

All times are local Central Daylight Time (UTC−5)



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