Baseball at the 2011 Pan American Games
Baseball at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara was held between October 19 and 25, 2011. All games were played at the Pan American Baseball Stadium in Lagos de Moreno. Pan American baseball is competed by men only, while women compete in the similar sport of softball. Each team can enter a team of 24 athletes for a maximum of 192 competitors for this tournament. The tournament was played using designated hitter rules. The draw for the competition took place in July 2011, in which the eight teams were drawn into two groups of four.
Cuba were the defending champions from the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, defeating the United States 3–1.
Canada won the gold medal
defeating the United States 2–1 in the gold medal game.
Medal summary
Medal table
Medalists
Schedule
The competition was spread out across seven days.| Preliminary round | Semifinals | M | Event finals |
| October | 19th Wed | 20th Thu | 21st Fri | 22nd Sat | 23rd Sun | 24th Mon | 25th Tue | Gold medals |
| Men's tournament | M | 1 |
Teams
Qualifying Summary
The hosts Mexico, along with the top seven teams at the Pan American Qualification tournament qualified to compete at the games.Participants
Format
- Eight teams are split into 2 preliminary round groups of 4 teams each. The top 2 teams from each group qualify for the knockout stage.
- The third and fourth placed teams in each group will play each other for fifth and seventh place respectively.
- In the semifinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B2 and B1 vs. A2
- The winning teams from the semifinals play for the gold medal. The losing teams compete for the bronze medal.
- Head to head results.
- Run average between the tied teams.
Preliminary round
Group A">Template:GroupAbaseball2011PAG">Group A
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Group B">Template:GroupBbaseball2011PAG">Group B
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Elimination stage
Seventh place match
Fifth place match
Semifinals
----Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Final standings
Statistics leaders
Batting
| Statistic | Name | Total/Avg |
| Batting average |  Brett Carroll | .556 |
| Hits | Brett Carroll | 10 |
| Runs | Brett Carroll | 8 |
| Home runs |  José Dariel Abreu | 3 |
| RBI | Tommy Mendonca | 10 |
| Stolen bases |  Reymond Fuentes | 3 |
| Slugging percentage | Brett Carroll | 1.111 |
Pitching
| Statistic | Name | Total/Avg |
| Wins |  Shawn Hill | 2 |
| Losses |  Eliecer Navarro Luis Torres | 2 |
| Saves |  Alan Guerrero | 2 |
| Innings pitched | Andy Van Hekken | 14 |
| ERA | 35 players | 0.00 |
| Strikeouts | Julio Rodriguez Miguel González | 11 |