2012 18U Baseball World Championship

2012 18U Baseball World Championship
Tournament details
Country	South Korea
Dates	August 30 - September 8
Teams	12
Defending champions	Chinese Taipei
Final positions
Champions	United States (6th title)
Runners-up	Canada
Third place	Chinese Taipei
Fourth place	Colombia
Tournament statistics
Games played	43
Attendance	15,640 (364 per game)
Best BA	Marciano Phillippi (.500)
Most HRs	Four tied (1)
Most SBs	Ryan Boldt (12)
Most Ks (as pitcher)	Shintaro Fujinami (26)
Awards
MVP	Christian Arroyo
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The 2012 IBAF 18U Baseball World Championship was an international baseball competition held in Seoul, South Korea from August 30 to September 8, 2012.^[1]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Tournament	United States^[2] Willie Abreu Christian Arroyo Cavan Biggio Ryan Boldt Bryson Brigman Ian Clarkin Kevin Davis Stephen Gonsalves Connor Heady John Kilichowski Jeremy Martinez Reese McGuire Andy McGuire Dom Núñez Chris Okey Ryan Olson Carson Sands Dominic Taccolini Keegan Thompson Garrett Williams	Canada^[3] Christian Botnick Dayton Dawe Nathan DeSouza Brock Dykxhoorn Kyle Hann Jesse Hodges Ryan Kellogg Jake Marks Gareth Morgan Josh Naylor Daniel Pinero Cal Quantrill Jacob Robson Travis Seabrooke Logan Seifrit Christopher Shaw Brett Siddall Owen Spiwak Mitchell Triolo Myles Vincent	Chinese Taipei^[4] Chan Chun-Hsiang Chen Yu-Ming Chen Yueh-Se Huang Tzu-Peng Hung Hsin-Chi Lee Tsung-Hsien Tzu-Wei Lin Lin Yi-Che Lin Cheng-Hsien Liu Chia-Kai Liu Sheng-Hung Sen Yu-Pin Sen Jung-Hung Su Chih-Chieh Tsai I-Hsuan Tsao Yu-Ning Jen-Ho Tseng Wang Cheng-Tang Yang Chia-Wei Yang Hsiang-Hao

Teams

The following 12 teams qualified for the tournament.

Pool A	Pool B
Australia	Canada
Colombia	Chinese Taipei¹
Netherlands	Czech Republic
South Korea	Italy
United States	Japan
Venezuela	Panama

^1 Chinese Taipei is the official IBAF designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan. (See also political status of Taiwan for details.)

Round 1

Group A

Standings

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
United States	4	1	.800	–	39	13
South Korea	3	1	.750	½	18	7
Colombia	3	2	.600	1	24	27
Venezuela	2	3	.400	2	19	18
Australia	2	3	.400	2	21	24
Netherlands	0	4	.000	3½	10	42

Schedule

August 31, 2012	Colombia	4 – 7	Australia	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 100
		Boxscore

August 31, 2012	South Korea	2 – 1	Venezuela	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 230
		Boxscore

August 31, 2012	Netherlands	0 – 17 (F/7)	United States	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 145
		Boxscore

September 1, 2012	Australia	3 – 6 (F/10)	Venezuela	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 100
		Boxscore

September 1, 2012	Colombia	9 – 6	Netherlands	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 100
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September 1, 2012	South Korea	8 – 2	United States	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 4,000
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September 2, 2012	United States	11 – 1 (F/7)	Colombia	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 50
		Boxscore

September 2, 2012	Venezuela	8 – 3	Netherlands	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 85
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September 2, 2012	Australia	1 – 7	South Korea	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 1,000
		Boxscore

September 3, 2012	Netherlands	1 – 8	Australia	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 65
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September 3, 2012	South Korea	1 – 3	Colombia	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 800
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September 3, 2012	United States	3 – 2	Venezuela	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 143
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September 4, 2012	Venezuela	2 – 7	Colombia	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 50
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September 4, 2012	Netherlands	Rainout	South Korea	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul

September 5, 2012	United States	6 – 2	Australia	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 150
		Boxscore

Group B

Standings

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA
Canada	4	1	.800	–	28	17
Japan	4	1	.800	–	29	7
Chinese Taipei	3	1	.750	½	16	10
Panama	2	3	.400	2	12	24
Italy	1	3	.250	2½	16	14
Czech Republic	0	5	.000	4	5	34

Schedule

August 31, 2012	Panama	2 – 0	Italy	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 70
		Boxscore

August 31, 2012	Canada	6 – 5 (F/10)	Japan	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 125
		Boxscore

August 31, 2012	Czech Republic	0 – 6	Chinese Taipei	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 100
		Boxscore

September 1, 2012	Canada	4 – 3	Italy	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 85
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September 1, 2012	Chinese Taipei	0 – 2	Japan	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 500
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September 1, 2012	Czech Republic	2 – 6	Panama	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 95
		Boxscore

September 2, 2012	Italy	12 – 1 (F/7)	Czech Republic	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 72
		Boxscore

September 2, 2012	Chinese Taipei	6 – 5	Canada	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 200
		Boxscore

September 2, 2012	Japan	8 – 0	Panama	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 224
		Boxscore

September 3, 2012	Canada	3 – 2	Czech Republic	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 73
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September 3, 2012	Chinese Taipei	4 – 3	Panama	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 103
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September 3, 2012	Japan	7 – 1	Italy	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 85
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September 4, 2012	Japan	7 – 0 (F/5)	Czech Republic	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 45
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September 4, 2012	Italy	Rainout	Chinese Taipei	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul

September 5, 2012	Panama	1 – 10	Canada	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 78
		Boxscore

Round 2

Group C

Standings

Teams	W	L	Pct.	GB	R	RA	Tiebreaker
United States	3	2	.600	–	28	16	1–1, 0.173 TQB
Canada	3	2	.600	–	25	26	1–1, -0.006 TQB
Chinese Taipei	3	2	.600	–	17	16	1–1, -0.192 TQB
Colombia	2	3	.400	1	14	25	2–0
Japan	2	3	.400	1	16	21	1–1
South Korea	2	3	.400	1	23	19	0–2

Schedule

September 5, 2012	South Korea	3 – 7 (F/10)	Chinese Taipei	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 520
		Boxscore

September 5, 2012	Japan	0 – 3	Colombia	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 118
		Boxscore

September 5, 2012	United States	0 – 1 (F/10)	Canada	Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 120
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September 6, 2012	Canada	10 – 6	Colombia	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 84
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September 6, 2012	United States	5 – 1	Chinese Taipei	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 113
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September 6, 2012	South Korea	2 – 4	Japan	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 3,500
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September 7, 2012	Chinese Taipei	3 – 1	Colombia	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 85
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September 7, 2012	Canada	3 – 9	South Korea	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 210
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September 7, 2012	United States	10 – 5	Japan	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 200
		Boxscore

Round 3

11th place game

September 5, 2012	Czech Republic	4 – 7	Netherlands	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 87
		Boxscore

9th place game

September 6, 2012	Australia	11 – 2	Italy	Guei Ballpark, Seoul Attendance: 45
		Boxscore

7th place game

September 6, 2012	Panama	5 – 4	Venezuela	Guei Ballpark, Seoul Attendance: 65
		Boxscore

5th place game

September 8, 2012	Japan	0 – 3	South Korea	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 1,100
		Boxscore

Bronze medal game

September 8, 2012	Chinese Taipei	4 – 1	Colombia	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 120
		Boxscore

Gold medal game

September 8, 2012	United States	6 – 2	Canada	Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul Attendance: 400
		Boxscore

Final standings

Rk	Team	W	L
	United States	7	2
Lost in gold medal game
	Canada	6	3
Failed to qualify for gold medal game
	Chinese Taipei	6	2
4	Colombia	4	5
Failed to qualify for bronze medal game
5	South Korea	5	3
6	Japan	5	4
Failed to qualify for Round 2
7	Panama	3	3
8	Venezuela	2	4
Failed to qualify for the 7th place game
9	Australia	3	3
10	Italy	1	4
Failed to qualify for the 9th place game
11	Netherlands	1	4
12	Czech Republic	0	6

2012 18U Baseball World champions
United States 6th title

Awards


Awards	Player
Most Valuable Player	Christian Arroyo
Outstanding Defensive Player	Tzu-Wei Lin

All-Tournament Team
Position	Player
Starting Pitcher	Shintaro Fujinami
Relief Pitcher	Jen-Ho Tseng
Catcher	Tomoya Mori
First Base	Chih-Chieh Su
Second Base	Kyle Hann
Third Base	Jesse Hodges
Shortstop	Christian Arroyo
Outfield	Jun-suk Song
	Elliot Hargreaves
	Cristian Cano
Designated Hitter	Jeremy Martinez^[5]

Officials

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Technical Commissioners

Chairman:

Jim Baba (CAN)

Members:

Brett Pickett (AUS)
Koji Aso (JPN)
Lin, Hua Wei (TPE)
George Santiago (PUR)
Lee, Kyu-Seok (KOR)
Kang, Moon-Kil (KOR)
Kim, Byung-Il (KOR)
Park, Ro-Jun (KOR)
Son, Hyuk (KOR)

Umpires

Umpire Director:

Gustavo Rodriguez (USA)

Members:

Gregory Howard (AUS)
Jon Oko (CAN)
Bin Shun Chen (TPE)
David Kulhanek (CZE)
Marco Taurelli (ITA)
Tomohisa Yamaguchi (JPN)
Hi Young Park (KOR)
Osmel Pimentel (VEN)
Kou Wakabayashi (JPN)
David Condon (USA)
Kevin Sweeney (USA)
Batista Fermin (PAN)
Do Hyung Kim (KOR)
Yang, Jae Man (KOR)
Jae Hoon Lim (KOR)
Seong Jun Park (KOR)
Suk Man Hwang (KOR)
Won Jung Park (KOR)

Scorers

Scoring Director:

Marco Battistella (ITA)

Members:

Takuya Sumi (JPN)
Feiko Drost (NED)
Jennie Moloney (AUS)
An, Woo Jun (KOR)
Oh, Ik Hwan (KOR)
Hwang, Sung Jun (KOR)
Han, In Hii (KOR)
Kim Young Sung (KOR)

Jury of Appeal

Chairman:

Gustavo Rodriguez (USA)

Members:

Sang Hyung Lee (KOR)
Gianni Fabrizi (ITA)

References

↑ International Baseball Federation Organizer
↑ "XXV U-18 Baseball World Cup 2012". wbsc.org. World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
↑ "XXV U-18 Baseball World Cup 2012". wbsc.org. World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
↑ "XXV U-18 Baseball World Cup 2012". wbsc.org. World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
↑ "Final Report" (PDF). IBAF. Retrieved 19 December 2025.
↑ "The Official Site of the International Baseball Federation". www.ibaf.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-02.

[1] International Baseball Federation Organizer

[2] "XXV U-18 Baseball World Cup 2012". wbsc.org. World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 10 August 2021.

[3] "XXV U-18 Baseball World Cup 2012". wbsc.org. World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 10 August 2021.

[4] "XXV U-18 Baseball World Cup 2012". wbsc.org. World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 10 August 2021.

[report-5] "Final Report" (PDF). IBAF. Retrieved 19 December 2025.

[6] "The Official Site of the International Baseball Federation". www.ibaf.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-02.

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