Baseball at the 2003 Pan American Games

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Cuba retained the Pan American Games baseball title, with its ninth consecutive gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Tournament

The competition had nine teams divided in two groups. In each group, each team played against all others once and the eight best records advanced to the quarterfinals. The best team from Group A played the lowest ranked team from Group B and vice versa. Ties within a group were broken by the team allowing the least number of runs passing to the knockout round.

Preliminary round

Group A

Team Pld W L RF RA Pct
MexicoMexico 3 2 1 0.667
CubaCuba 3 2 1 0.667
BrazilBrazil 3 1 2 0.333
PanamaPanama 3 1 2 0.333

Group B

Team Pld W L RF RA Pct
NicaraguaNicaragua 4 4 0 1.000
United StatesUSA 4 3 1 0.750
Dominican RepublicDominican Republic 4 2 2 0.500
GuatemalaGuatemala 4 1 3 0.250
The BahamasBahamas 4 0 4 0.000

Knockout round

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                   
8 August        
 MexicoMexico  6
9 August
 GuatemalaGuatemala  0  
 MexicoMexico  2
8 August
   United StatesUSA  3  
 BrazilBrazil  0
10 August
 United StatesUSA  7  
 United StatesUSA  1
8 August
   CubaCuba  3
 CubaCuba  10
9 August
 Dominican RepublicDominican Republic  0  
 CubaCuba  2 Third place
8 August
   NicaraguaNicaragua  1  
 PanamaPanama  2  MexicoMexico  6
 NicaraguaNicaragua  5    NicaraguaNicaragua  2
10 August

Medal chart

Gold Cuba Cuba
Silver United States United States of America.
Bronze Mexico Mexico