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Canada's baseball team did very well in the initial stages of the round-robin winning their four first games. Despite losses to Japan and Cuba, they rebounded in their final game vs. Australia. Most notable has been the performance of second baseman Richard "Stubby" Clapp.
With a 5-2 record in the preliminary round, Canada finished in 3rd position, behind Japan and Cuba and ahead of Australia. In the semi-finals on August 24, Canada lost 8-5 to Cuba. Canada was leading Cuba 3-2 going into the bottom of the eighth inning but then gave up 6 runs. The game ended in dramatic fashion when Canadian Kevin Nicholson almost hit a game tying homer in the 9th. However, a heavy wind was blowing in from left field that night, which caused the ball to come down inches from the wall and was caught. Japan lost 1-0 to Australia in a surprising result in the other semifinal, almost ruining Canada's hopes for a medal in Baseball, which would later prove true as Canada lost to Japan on August 25 in the Bronze medal game, thereby finishing fourth.
- Team Roster
Manager: 12 - Ernie Whitt
Coaches: 42 - Denis Boucher, 7 - Marty Lehn, 10 - Greg Hamilton, 21 - Tim Leiper.
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- Preliminary Round
Team | W | L | Tiebreaker |
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Japan | 6 | 1 | 1-0 |
Cuba | 6 | 1 | 0-1 |
Canada | 5 | 2 | - |
Australia | 4 | 3 | - |
Chinese Taipei | 3 | 4 | - |
Netherlands | 2 | 5 | - |
Greece | 1 | 6 | 1-0 |
Italy | 1 | 6 | 0-1 |
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | |||||||||||
Canada | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | X | 7 | 9 | 1 | |||||||||||
WP: Mike Johnson (1–0) LP: Chang Chih-Chia (0–1) |
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 4 | |||||||||||
Canada | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | X | 9 | 6 | 0 | |||||||||||
WP: Jason Dickson (1–0) LP: David Rollandini (0–1) Home runs: ITA: None CAN: Pete Laforest (1) |
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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Canada | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||
Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||
WP: Shawn Hill (1–0) LP: Patrick Beljaards (0–1) Home runs: CAN: Stubby Clapp (1), Pete Orr (1), Pete Laforest (2) NED: None |
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Canada | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | |||||||||||
Greece | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||||
WP: Paul Spoljaric (1–0) LP: Meleti Ross Melehes (0–1) Sv: Aaron Myette (1) |
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||||
Japan | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 9 | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||
WP: Tsuyoshi Wada (1–0) LP: Mike Johnson (1–1) Home runs: CAN: None JPN: Yoshitomo Tani (1), Yoshinobu Takahashi (1), Kazuhiro Wada (2) |
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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Cuba | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 0 | |||||||||||
Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | |||||||||||
WP: Norberto Gonzalez (1–0) LP: Jason Dickson (1–1) Sv: Pedro Luis Lazo (2) Home runs: CUB: Antonio Scull (1) CAN: None |
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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Canada | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 0 | |||||||||||
Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||||
WP: Phil Devey (1–0) LP: Adrian Burnside (0–1) Home runs: CAN: Jeremy Ware (1), Ryan Radmanovich (1) AUS: None |
- Semifinal
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 1 | |||||||||||
Cuba | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | X | 8 | 13 | 2 | |||||||||||
WP: Danny Betancourt (1–0) LP: Chris Begg (0–1) Sv: Norberto Gonzalez (1) Home runs: CAN: Ryan Radmanovich (2) CUB: None |
- Bronze Medal Game
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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Japan | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 13 | 0 | |||||||||||
Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | |||||||||||
WP: Tsuyoshi Wada (2–0) LP: Mike Johnson (1–2) Home runs: JPN: Kenji Johjima (2) CAN: Jeremy Ware (2) |
Read more about this topic: Canada At The 2004 Summer Olympics
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