Softball at the 2022 World Games

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Softball
Venue Hoover Metropolitan Stadium
Location United States Birmingham, United States
Dates July 9–13 2022
Nations 8
← 2013

The softball competition at the 2022 World Games took place from July 9–13, 2022,[1] in Birmingham in United States, at the University of Alabama Birmingham. Originally scheduled to take place in July 2021, the Games were rescheduled for July 2022 as a result of the 2020 Summer Olympics postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] Softball will return to official programme of the World Games after nine years of absence.

This tournament also served as the world championship for softball.[3]

Format

A total of eight teams are divided into two groups of four teams each. In each group, teams played against each other once in a single round-robin format, for a total of three matches per team. The top two of each of the two groups advanced to the knockout stage.

Qualification

Eight teams qualified, including United States, which, as host nation, qualifies automatically. Qualification places were primarily based on national softball ranking. The last berth was awarded at the European Softball Championship, which was scheduled to take place in 2020 but have been moved due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [4]

Qualified teams

Team Date of
qualification		 Method of
qualification
 United States 22 April 2020 Host
 Japan 22 April 2020 Finished 2nd in WBSC ranking
 Canada 22 April 2020 Finished 3rd in WBSC ranking
 Mexico 22 April 2020 Finished 5th in WBSC ranking
 Chinese Taipei 22 April 2020 Finished 6th in WBSC ranking
 China[!] 22 April 2020 Finished 7th in WBSC ranking
 Australia 22 April 2020 Finished 8th in WBSC ranking
 Italy 3 July 2021 Finished 1st at the 2021 Women's Softball European Championship
 Puerto Rico[!] 24 March 2022 Wildcard
Notes
  1. ^ China originally qualified by virtue of their WBSC ranking. However, China withdrew due to COVID-19 travel restrictions by the Chinese government on March 24, 2022. WBSC replaced China with Puerto Rico on March 24, 2022.

Competition schedule

The match schedule of the softball tournament was unveiled on 24 February 2022.[5]

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Legend
G Group stage C Classification matches ½ Semi-finals B Bronze medal match F Gold medal match
9 Sat 10 Sun 11 Mon 12 Tue 13 Wed
G C ½ C B F

Squads

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Group stage

Group A

Pos Team Pld W L GF GA GD PCT GB
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: WBSC

Group B

Pos Team Pld W L GF GA GD PCT GB
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: WBSC

Classification stage

Bracket

 
 5th–8th Classification Fifth place play-off
 
            
 
 July 12 – Birmingham
 
 
  Canada (6) 8
 
 July 13 – Birmingham
 
  Mexico 1
 
  Canada 0
 
 July 12 – Birmingham
 
  Puerto Rico 1
 
  Puerto Rico (5) 7
 
 
  Italy 0
 
 Seventh place play-off
 
 
 July 13 – Birmingham
 
 
  Mexico 1
 
 
  Italy 4

Seventh place play-off

July 13 11:00 (CDT)
Hoover Metropolitan Stadium 31 °C (88 °F)
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
 Mexico 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 6 0
 Italy 1 0 0 0 0 3 X 4 4 2
WP: Alexia Lacatena   LP: Sierra Hyland
Boxscore

Fifth place play-off

July 13 02:00 (CDT)
Hoover Metropolitan Stadium 32 °C (90 °F)
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
 Puerto Rico 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0
 Canada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
WP: Aleshia Ocasio   LP: Jorde Madison Chartrand
Boxscore

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
 Semi-finals Gold medal match
 
            
 
 July 12 – Birmingham
 
 
  Chinese Taipei 0
 
 July 13 – Birmingham
 
  Japan (6) 7
 
  Japan 2
 
 July 12 – Birmingham
 
  United States 3
 
  Australia 0
 
 
  United States 5
 
 Bronze medal match
 
 
 July 13 – Birmingham
 
 
  Chinese Taipei 6
 
 
  Australia 0

Semi-finals

July 12 05:00 (CDT)
Hoover Metropolitan Stadium 33 °C (91 °F)
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
 Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 3 3
 Japan (6) 0 2 0 0 4 1 X 7 9 0
WP: Miu Goto   LP: Chiu An-Ju   Sv: Sakura Miwa
Home runs:
TPE: None
JPN: Yamato Fujita
Boxscore
July 12 08:00 (CDT)
Hoover Metropolitan Stadium 29 °C (84 °F)
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
 Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
 United States 1 0 0 4 0 0 X 5 5 0
WP: Ally Carda   LP: Ellen Roberts   Sv: Montana Fouts
Boxscore

Bronze medal match

July 13 05:00 (CDT)
Hoover Metropolitan Stadium 31 °C (88 °F)
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
 Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
 Chinese Taipei 1 2 0 1 2 0 X 6 11 0
WP: Ke Hsia-Ai   LP: Ellen Roberts
Boxscore

Gold medal match

July 13 09:00 (CDT)
Hoover Metropolitan Stadium 24 °C (75 °F)
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
 Japan 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 8 0
 United States 0 3 0 0 0 0 X 3 5 1
WP: Monica Abbott   LP: Sakura Miwa   Sv: Ally Carda
Boxscore

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Women's tournament  United States  Japan  Chinese Taipei

See also

References

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