2019 U-18 Baseball World Cup


The 2019 U-18 Baseball World Cup or the XXVIV U-18 Baseball World Cup is an international baseball tournament being held by the World Baseball Softball Confederation for players 18-year-old and younger. The 2019 edition is being held in Gijang, South Korea from August 30 to September 8, 2019.

Format

First Round: The twelve participating nations were drawn into two groups of 6, in which single round robin will occur. The top 3 nations from each group advances to the Super Round, while the bottom 3 nations from each group advance to the Consolation Round.
Consolation Round: The 6 nations in this round play one game against the teams they have not played yet.
Super Round: The format in the Super Round is similar to that of the Consolation Round. Each team plays the top three teams from the opposing group. The standings for this round will include the 2 games played against the 2 other Second Round qualifiers from the team's First Round group, and the 3 games played in the Second Round, for a total of 5 games. The 3rd and 4th place finishers advance to the Bronze Medal Game, and the 1st and 2nd place finishers advance to the Gold Medal Game.
Finals: The Finals consist of the Bronze Medal Game, contested by the 3rd and 4th place finishers, and the Gold Medal Game, contested by the 1st and 2nd place finishers.

Teams

The following 12 teams qualified for the tournament. The number shown in parenthesis is the country's position in the WBSC World Rankings going into the competition.
Group AGroup B

Chinese Taipei is the official WBSC designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan.

Round 1

Group A

Standings

TeamsPct.GB
41.800-2912
32.6001.04818
32.6001.02615
32.6001.02227
23.4002.01127
05.0004.01653

Group B

Standings

TeamsPct.GB
41.800-4513
41.800-3923
41.800-2814
23.4002.03728
14.2003.02528
05.0004.01078

Super round

TeamsPct.GB
41.800-3523
32.6001.03023
32.6001.01321
23.4002.02025
23.4002.02720
14.0003.02437

Consolation round

TeamsPct.GB
501.000-2910
32.6002.03622
32.6002.02618
23.4003.02217
23.4003.02419
05.0005.01162

Finals

Third place game

Championship

Final standings

U-18 All-World Team

Statistics leaders

Batting

* Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per game

Pitching

* Minimum 0.8 innings pitched per game
** They are tied with others with a 0.00 ERA but they pitched the most innings