Baseball
Men's team Canada qualified its men's baseball team for the Olympics by winning the final Olympic Baseball qualification tournament with a 6–1 record. Canada went 2–5 in the tournament, but all five losses came by one run, including one in extra innings.
- James Avery – P (replacement for Scott Richmond)
- Chris Begg – P (RH)
- T. J. Burton – P (RH)
- Stubby Clapp – 2B
- Rheal Cormier – P (LH)
- David Corrente – C
- David Davidson – P (LH)
- Emerson Frostad – 1B/C
- Emmanuel Garcia – SS
- Steve Green – P (RH)
- Mike Johnson – P (RH)
- Brett Lawrie – C/INF/OF
- Jonathan Lockwood – P (RH)
- Brooks McNiven – P (RH)
- Ryan Radmanovich – OF
- Chris Reitsma – P (RH)
- Chris Robinson – C
- Matt Rogelstad – INF
- Michael Saunders – OF
- Adam Stern – OF
- Scott Thorman – 1B
- Jimmy Van Ostrand – 1B/OF
- Nick Weglarz – OF
| Team | W | L | RS | RA | WIN% | GB | Tiebreaker |
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| Canada | 2 | 5 | 29 | 20 | .286 | 5 | 0–1 |
Round Robin
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | - | 10 | 10 | 0 | |||||||||||
| China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 8 | 2 | |||||||||||
| WP: Chris Begg (1–0) LP: Tao Bu (0–1) Home runs: CAN: Scott Thorman (1), Michael Saunders (1) CHN: None |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| Canada | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Cuba | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | X | 7 | 5 | 2 | |||||||||||
| WP: Vicyohandri Odelín (1–0) LP: Jonathan Lockwood (0–1) Sv: Norberto González (1) Home runs: CAN: Michael Saunders (2), Nick Weglarz 2 (2) CUB: Alexander Malleta (1), Alfredo Despaigne (1) |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||||
| WP: Hyun-Jin Ryu (1–0) LP: Mike Johnson (0–1) Home runs: KOR: Keun-Woo Jeong (1) CAN: None |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| Canada | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 1 | |||||||||||
| United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 5 | 9 | 1 | |||||||||||
| WP: Brian Duensing (1–0) LP: Chris Reitsma (0–1) Home runs: CAN: None USA: Brian Barden (1) |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| WP: Yoshihisa Naruse (1–0) LP: Chris Begg (0–1) Sv: Koji Uehara (1) Home runs: JPN: Atsunori Inaba (1) CAN: None |
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||
| WP: Brooks McNiven (1–0) LP: Shairon Martis (0–2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | R | H | E | ||||||||
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| Chinese Taipei | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 2 | ||||||||
| Canada | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 3 | ||||||||
| WP: Fu-Te Ni (1–2) LP: Chris Reitsma (0–2) Sv: Chih-Chia Chang (1) Home runs: TPE: Che-Hsuan Lin (1), Chih-Sheng Lin (1) CAN: Stubby Clapp (1) |
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Read more about this topic: Canada At The 2008 Summer Olympics
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