2023 Youth Baseball5 World Cup

2023 Youth Baseball5 World Cup
Tournament details
Country	Turkey
Venue	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	10–15 October 2023
Teams	12 (from 5 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Cuba (1st title)
Runners-up	France
Third place	Mexico
Fourth place	Turkey
Tournament statistics
Games played	50
Awards
MVP	Haila Gonzalez; Jadier Ulloa

The 2023 Youth Baseball5 World Cup (2023 YB5WC) was the first edition of the Youth Baseball5 World Cup, a mixed-gender Baseball5 tournament held in 2023 from 10 to 15 October.^[1] 12 countries participated, with Cuba beating France in the final.^[2]^[3]

Cuba won the tournament, having gone unbeaten the entire time and only losing one game in a best-of-three against Mexico.^[4]

Qualification

Event	Dates	Location(s)	Berth(s)	Qualified
Youth Baseball5 European Championship	16–19 November 2022	Sofia	2	France Turkey
Youth Baseball5 Asia Cup	8–11 February 2023	Kuala Lumpur	3	Chinese Taipei China South Korea
Youth Baseball5 African Championship	16–21 May 2023	Cape Coast	2	Ghana Tunisia
WBSC Americas¹	N/a	N/a	2	Cuba Mexico
WBSC Oceania¹	N/a	N/a	1	Australia
Wild card	N/a	N/a	2	Zambia Malaysia
Total			12

¹There was no qualification event for WBSC Americas and WBSC Oceania. Teams were selected by World Baseball Softball Confederation.

Format

The 12 teams were divided into two groups. After the 30-game Opening Round concluded on 12 October, the top three finishers from each group advanced to the Super Round. The top two teams from the Super Round competed in the final on 15 October.^[5]

There was also a Placement Round to determine which of the teams that didn't advance to the Super Round finished in 7th to 12th place.^[6]

Teams

Group A: China, Cuba, Malaysia, Tunisia, Turkey and Zambia

Group B: Australia, France, Ghana, Korea, Mexico and Chinese Taipei

Opening round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Cuba	5	5	0	93	12	+81	1.000	—	Advance to Super round
2	Turkey (H)	5	4	1	58	51	+7	.800	1
3	China	5	3	2	75	61	+14	.600	2
4	Tunisia	5	2	3	40	43	−3	.400	3	Advance to Placement round
5	Zambia	5	1	4	38	89	−51	.200	4
6	Malaysia	5	0	5	21	69	−48	.000	5

Source: WBSC
(H) Hosts

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Total	Report
10 Oct	9:30	Cuba	2-0	China	10-0	11-1		21-1	Report
10 Oct	11:30	Malaysia	0-2	Tunisia	2-3	1-4		3-7	Report
10 Oct	13:00	Zambia	0-2	Cuba	1-16	0-3		1-19	Report
10 Oct	15:30	China	2-0	Malaysia	5-1	12-0		17-1	Report
10 Oct	20:30	Turkey	2-0	Zambia	9-7	9-6		18-13	Report
11 Oct	11:00	China	2-1	Zambia	9-0	6-8	13-0	28-8	Report
11 Oct	11:30	Turkey	2-0	Malaysia	6-4	5-2		11-6	Report
11 Oct	15:30	Zambia	0-2	Tunisia	0-10	2-3		2-13	Report
11 Oct	16:00	Cuba	2-0	Turkey	6-4	10-0		16-4	Report
11 Oct	19:00	Tunisia	0-2	Cuba	0-8	6-9		6-17	Report
12 Oct	10:00	China	0-2	Turkey	9-10	6-8		15-18	Report
12 Oct	12:30	Zambia	2-1	Malaysia	2-3	3-1	9-7	14-11	Report
12 Oct	15:30	Tunisia	1-2	China	5-2	1-4	7-8	13-14	Report
12 Oct	17:30	Malaysia	0-2	Cuba	0-8	0-12		0-20	Report
12 Oct	19:00	Turkey	2-0	Tunisia	5-1	2-0		7-1	Report

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	France	5	5	0	53	16	+37	1.000	—	Advance to Super round
2	Mexico	5	4	1	45	22	+23	.800	1
3	Chinese Taipei	5	3	2	49	47	+2	.600	2
4	Ghana	5	2	3	42	48	−6	.400	3	Advance to Placement round
5	South Korea	5	1	4	42	60	−18	.200	4
6	Australia	5	0	5	13	51	−38	.000	5

Source: WBSC

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Total	Report
10 Oct	10:00	France	2-0	Mexico	4-1	5-1		9-2	Report
10 Oct	11:00	South Korea	2-0	Australia	11-6	7-0		18-6	Report
10 Oct	12:30	Ghana	0-2	France	1-3	0-5		1-8	Report
10 Oct	16:00	Mexico	2-0	South Korea	4-3	11-1		15-4	Report
10 Oct	17:00	Australia	0-2	Chinese Taipei	1-2	4-5		5-7	Report
11 Oct	10:00	Ghana	2-0	Australia	4-0	8-0		12-0	Report
11 Oct	13:00	France	2-0	Chinese Taipei	10-4	2-0		12-4	Report
11 Oct	17:00	Chinese Taipei	2-1	Ghana	12-3	5-7	4-2	21-12	Report
11 Oct	17:30	South Korea	1-2	France	2-4	5-4	0-6	7-14	Report
11 Oct	18:30	Australia	0-2	Mexico	0-2	0-2		0-4	Report
12 Oct	11:00	South Korea	1-2	Chinese Taipei	2-1	0-7	3-4	5-12	Report
12 Oct	11:30	Mexico	2-0	Ghana	4-3	7-1		11-4	Report
12 Oct	13:00	Australia	0-2	France	2-7	0-3		2-10	Report
12 Oct	16:00	Chinese Taipei	0-2	Mexico	4-6	1-7		5-13	Report
12 Oct	17:30	Ghana	2-0	South Korea	5-2	8-6		13-8	Report

Second round

Super round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Cuba	5	5	0	78	19	+59	1.000	—	Advance to Final
2	France	5	4	1	44	41	+3	.800	1	Advance to Final
3	Turkey (H)	5	2	3	44	58	−14	.400^[a]	3	Advance to Bronze medal game
4	Mexico	5	2	3	38	47	−9	.400^[a]	3	Advance to Bronze medal game
5	China	5	1	4	47	64	−17	.200^[b]	4
6	Chinese Taipei	5	1	4	29	51	−22	.200^[b]	4

Source: WBSC
(H) Hosts
Notes:

1 2 Head-to-head result: Turkey 2-0 Mexico
1 2 Head-to-head result: China 2-0 Chinese Taipei

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Total	Report
13 Oct	10:00	China	2-0	Chinese Taipei	6-0	8-5		14-5	Report
13 Oct	11:30	Turkey	2-0	Mexico	6-3	4-0		10-3	Report
13 Oct	13:00	Cuba	2-0	France	11-1	7-4		18-5	Report
13 Oct	16:00	China	0-2	Mexico	3-6	4-5		7-11	Report
13 Oct	17:30	Turkey	1-2	France	4-2	1-3	2-4	7-9	Report
13 Oct	19:00	Chinese Taipei	0-2	Cuba	0-4	0-3		0-7	Report
14 Oct	10:00	China	1-2	France	4-1	3-4	3-4	10-9	Report
14 Oct	11:30	Chinese Taipei	2-0	Turkey	6-2	9-3		15-5	Report
14 Oct	13:00	Mexico	1-2	Cuba	1-7	7-6	1-3	9-16	Report

Placement round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB
1	Ghana	5	5	0	73	23	+50	1.000	—
2	Tunisia	5	4	1	60	36	+24	.800	1
3	South Korea	5	3	2	74	53	+21	.600	2
4	Malaysia	5	1	4	38	56	−18	.200	4
5	Zambia	5	1	4	47	77	−30	.200	4
6	Australia	5	1	4	29	76	−47	.200	4

Source: WBSC

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Total	Report
13 Oct	9:30	Malaysia	2-0	Australia	7-1	6-4		13-5	Report
13 Oct	11:00	Zambia	1-2	South Korea	1-11	4-3	1-7	6-21	Report
13 Oct	12:30	Ghana	2-0	Tunisia	12-1	4-1		16-2	Report
13 Oct	15:30	Australia	2-1	Zambia	4-2	1-9	8-4	13-15	Report
13 Oct	17:00	Malaysia	0-2	Ghana	2-5	1-8		3-13	Report
13 Oct	18:30	South Korea	1-2	Tunisia	6-1	0-10	4-9	10-20	Report
14 Oct	16:00	Australia	1-2	Tunisia	1-11	3-1	1-6	5-18	Report
14 Oct	17:30	Zambia	1-2	Ghana	0-8	8-5	2-6	10-19	Report
14 Oct	19:00	Malaysia	1-2	South Korea	2-6	4-3	2-8	8-17	Report

Finals round

Third place play-off

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Mexico	2–1	Turkey	2–3 (F/6)	7–1	4–2

Final

15 October 2023 15:00 at Yenimahalle Spor Kompleksi Fair, 22 °C (72 °F), 57% humidity
Team	1	2	3	4	5	R	H	E
France	0	3	0	0	0	3	9	1
Cuba	5	0	1	0	X	6	12	0
Umpires: Alessia Cicconi (HP), Tony Jones (1F), Thalia Villavicencio (2F), Batuhan Akkaya (3F) Boxscore

15 October 2023 15:30 at Yenimahalle Spor Kompleksi Fair, 22 °C (72 °F), 57% humidity
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	H	E
France	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	0
Cuba (6)	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	7	0
Umpires: Alessia Cicconi (HP), Tony Jones (1F), Thalia Villavicencio (2F), Batuhan Akkaya (3F) Boxscore

References

↑ "Baseball5 to make another hit in Ankara, a city of cultural significance". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
↑ "Youth Baseball5 World Cup press conference: "The future of Baseball5 is extremely bright" - WBSC President Riccardo Fraccari". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
↑ "Cuba win first Youth Baseball5 World Cup after France victory". www.insidethegames.biz. 2023-10-15. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
↑ "Cuba win Youth Baseball5 World Cup to add to 2022 World Championship crown". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
↑ "Where to watch: Inaugural WBSC Youth Baseball5 World Cup streamed live and free". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
↑ "WBSC Youth Baseball5 World Cup: China finish fifth, Chinese Taipei sixth; Placement Round positions finalised with Finals set for Sunday". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 2023-10-15.

[table_hth_MEX0.92955687219722-7] 1 2 Head-to-head result: Turkey 2-0 Mexico

[table_hth_CHN0.92955687219722-8] 1 2 Head-to-head result: China 2-0 Chinese Taipei

[1] "Baseball5 to make another hit in Ankara, a city of cultural significance". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 2023-10-15.

[2] "Youth Baseball5 World Cup press conference: "The future of Baseball5 is extremely bright" - WBSC President Riccardo Fraccari". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 2023-10-15.

[3] "Cuba win first Youth Baseball5 World Cup after France victory". www.insidethegames.biz. 2023-10-15. Retrieved 2023-10-15.

[4] "Cuba win Youth Baseball5 World Cup to add to 2022 World Championship crown". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 2023-10-15.

[5] "Where to watch: Inaugural WBSC Youth Baseball5 World Cup streamed live and free". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 2023-10-15.

[6] "WBSC Youth Baseball5 World Cup: China finish fifth, Chinese Taipei sixth; Placement Round positions finalised with Finals set for Sunday". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 2023-10-15.

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