Brazil national baseball team

Brazil national baseball team
Information
Country	Brazil
Federation	Confederação Brasileira de Beisebol e Softbol (CBBS)
Confederation	WBSC Americas
Manager	Steven Finley
WBSC ranking
Current	23 (18 December 2023)[1]
Highest	15 (December 2014)
Lowest	25 (December 2021)
World Baseball Classic
Appearances	1 (first in 2013)
Best result	14th (2013)
World Cup
Appearances	3 (first in 1972)
Best result	7th
Intercontinental Cup
Appearances	2 (first in 1995)
Best result	5th
Pan American Games
Appearances	8 (first in 1951)
Best result	2nd (1 time, in 2023)

The Brazil national baseball team (Portuguese: Seleção Brasileira de Beisebol) is the national baseball team of Brazil. The team represents Brazil in international competitions. The team is currently ranked 18th in the world.^[1]

The following is a list of professional baseball game results currently active in the latest version of the WBSC World Rankings, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.^[2]

Legend

  Win   Lose   Void or postponed   Fixture

World Baseball Classic Q	September 30	New Zealand	7–12	Brazil	Rod Carew Stadium, Panama
	12:00 CT	LP: Ben Thompson HR: Nikau Pouaka-Grego (1)	Boxscore	WP: Gabriel Barbosa HR: Christian Lopes (1)	Attendance: 105 Umpires: HP: Anthony Perez. 1B: Austin Jones. 2B: Juan Manuel Rodriguez. 3B: Frantisek Pribyl.

World Baseball Classic Q	October 1	Brazil	4–1	Nicaragua	Rod Carew Stadium, Panama
	12:00 CT	WP: Felipe Sales Sv: Enzo Sawayama (1)	Boxscore	LP: J. C. Ramírez	Attendance: 695 Umpires: HP: Dane Poncsak. 1B: Juan Manuel Rodriguez. 2B: Anthony Perez. 3B: Lisa Turbitt

World Baseball Classic Q	October 4	Brazil	0–4	Panama	Rod Carew Stadium, Panama
	19:00 CT	LP: André Rienzo	Boxscore	WP: Ariel Jurado HR: Jose Ramos (1), Edgar Munoz (1)	Umpires: HP: Austin Jones. 1B: Anthony Perez. 2B: Juan Manuel Rodriguez. 3B: Dane Poncsak

World Baseball Classic Q	October 5	Nicaragua	3–1	Brazil	Rod Carew Stadium, Panama
	19:00 CT	WP: Osman Gutierrez Sv: Joaquin Acuna (1)	Boxscore	LP: Heitor Tokar	Attendance: 769 Umpires: HP: Anthony Perez. 1B: Dane Poncsak. 2B: Mark Stewart. 3B: Lisa Turbitt

Pan American Games Q	January 30	Brazil	2–3	Dominican Republic	São Paulo, Brazil

Pan American Games Q	January 31	Mexico	13–3	Brazil	São Paulo, Brazil

Pan American Games Q	February 1	Nicaragua	6–2	Brazil	São Paulo, Brazil

Copa Sudamérica GS	April 15	Argentina	3–2	Brazil	Buenos Aires, Argentina

Copa Sudamérica GS	April 16	Brazil	20–1 (F/5)	Bolivia	Buenos Aires, Argentina

Copa Sudamérica GS	April 17	Brazil	12–4	Chile	Buenos Aires, Argentina

Copa Sudamérica GS	April 18	Bolivia	0–18	Brazil	Buenos Aires, Argentina

Copa Sudamérica GS	April 19	Brazil	8–6	Argentina	Buenos Aires, Argentina

Copa Sudamérica GS	April 20	Chile	Void	Brazil	Buenos Aires, Argentina

Copa Sudamérica F	April 21	Argentina	7–1	Brazil	Buenos Aires, Argentina

World Baseball Classic record								Qualification record
Year	Round	Position	W	L	RS	RA		W	L	RS	RA
2006	did not enter							No qualifiers held
2009	did not enter							No qualifiers held
2013	Round 1	14th	0	3	7	15		3	0	11	3
2017	did not qualify							1	2	13	5
2023	did not qualify							2	2	17	15
Total	Round 1	1/5	0	3	7	15		6	4	41	23

• 2003: 7th
• 2005: 14th

• 1995: 5th
• 2002: 9th

• 2007: 7th

• 2023: 2nd

The Brazil National Baseball team is controlled by the Confederação Brasileira de Beisebol e Softbol. The team represents the nation of Brazil in senior-level men's international competition and is a member of the COPABE or Pan American Baseball Confederation. Though not a major competitor in the world scene, Brazil has steadily been improving and managed to provide a scare for both the Cuba national baseball team and the United States national baseball team in the first decade of the 21st century. Due to the popularity of the sport among the Japanese, the Brazilian team is composed in large part of Japanese-Brazilian players. Jo Matumoto, a Brazilian team pitcher, got a chance at Organized Baseball in 2007 where he flourished in the Toronto Blue Jays AA system. [1] Archived 2014-11-16 at the Wayback Machine

The Baseball World Cup is an international tournament. National baseball teams from around the world compete with one another to crown a champion. It is run by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) and is one of two active tournaments, the other being the World Baseball Classic, considered by the IBAF to be a major world championship.

In 2003, Brazil placed 7th in the Baseball World Cup. The field of teams consisted of 15 teams split into two groups. Group A included Cuba, Nicaragua, Chinese Taipaei, South Korea, Canada, Italy and Russia while group B consisted of Japan, team USA, Panama, Brazil, the Netherlands, Mexico, China and France.^[3]

The order the teams are listed in above shows the teams success in the first round of the tournament. The four teams from each group who finished the first round with the best records went on to play in the placing rounds, which began with the quarterfinals. Brazil played their quarterfinal against the eventual tournament Champions, the Cuba national baseball team and nearly pulled off a huge upset. Pitcher Kléber Ojima nursed a 3–2 lead into the ninth inning, but Cuba's offense proved too powerful for the underdogs to hang on. After a deep triple and a two-run game-winning home run, the Brazilian team are crushed and stunned at their 4–3 loss. In their next game the team suffered a lopsided defeat to the United States 14–3, a game in which they were forced to use 5 different pitchers. This defeat sent Brazil into the Seventh place game where they faced and beat the South Korea national baseball team by the score of 8–3, taking advantage of pitcher Cláudio Yamadao throws eight scoreless innings and Brazil officially finishing out their first ever appearance in the Baseball world cup with a win.^{[citation needed]}

In 2005 Brazil competed in their second Baseball World Cup, where they were managed by Mitsuyoshi Sato. Coming off a Seventh place finish in 2003, the team was hungry for more success. The first game of pool play had Brazil taking on China. A hard-fought game by both teams ended in the 15th inning when China scored twice to beat Brazil 6–5. Brazil had a 3-run lead going into the seventh inning of the contest. Next up for Brazil were the South Africa national baseball team. Behind a strong pitching performance and sturdy defensive play, the Brazilian team one-hit South Africa and improved to 1–1. The success did not last however, as the team faced a powerful team Cuba in their next game. The final score was 11–1 in Cuba's favor and Brazil was left sitting at 1–2. The woes continued to pile up for Brazil as they lost the following three games 7–0 to the Netherlands, 4–0 to South Korea and 8–5 over Panama. In the latter game of the skid Brazil actually found itself in the lead with just four innings to play. However the bats for the Panama national baseball team came alive and they rallied for the victory. Brazil finally was able to find its stroke against an unsuspecting Sweden team and took and 11–4 victory while scoring all of their runs in each of the first three innings. The victory gave Brazil a record of 2–4 in the games and a hope to finish with a win and boost their winning percentage. Alas, Brazil would taste no more victory as they dropped their final game 12–4 to Canada, a game in which they led 3–0 early on.^{[citation needed]} Their 15th-place finish in 2005 was the last time the team competed in the Baseball World Cup.^[4]

The Intercontinental Cup is a tournament between the members of the IBAF. Originally held in 1973 in Italy, the Cup was held every other year following until 1999. Since, there has been a competition in 2002 and 2006. As is the trend in many international baseball competitions, Cuba has dominated the Intercontinental Cup, winning 10 golds and three silvers in 16 tournaments. The 2006 tournament was held in Taichung, Taiwan November 9–19.[2]

In 1995 Brazil competed in the Intercontinental Cup for the first time. The team took 5th place that year, as the dynasty that is Cuban baseball rolled to their seventh consecutive title. Japan would take second place while the Nicaragua national baseball team was left holding the bronze.

2002 was Brazil's second shot at Intercontinental Cup glory. However, Cuba ended their drought of Golds with yet another first-place finish, one of their ten in Cup history. South Korea took the silver while the Dominican Republic national baseball team hoisted the bronze. Brazil was left with a seventh-place finish and hasn't competed in the tournament since.

The Pan American Games are a sort of warm up for the Olympic Games in the sense that they are held every four years and occur one year prior to the Summer Olympic Games each cycle. The Pan American Games hold competitions in multiple sports and have been held since 1951. [3]

In 2007 Brazil competed in its very first Pan American Games for baseball. The team opened up pool play with an impressive 1–0 win over Nicaragua. Pitchers Claudio Yamada and Kléber Ojima combined for the four hit shutout while the lone run was scored on a home run by Tiago Magalhaes. Brazil had put themselves in the drivers seat with a huge game 1 win, but took a step back with a 14–2 spanking handed to them by the Dominican Republic national baseball team. This loss put the team's record at 1–1 and meant that the next and final game of pool play was make it or break it for Brazil. In the matchup between Brazil and a powerful United States team, Things were extremely close for the majority of the game. Brazil took an early one-run lead in the first inning but saw it quickly taken away in the second as the U.S. pulled even. The game would stay deadlocked until the fifth when the U.S. would gain a one-run advantage, and later in the seventh would tack on what proved to be a decisive five runs. Despite late efforts by Brazil, who came up with two runs in the eighth and one in the ninth, the American team shut the door for the win and finished pool play undefeated on the 7–5 victory. This loss dropped Brazil to 1–2, a record which proved not good enough to make advance to the medal rounds. The United States would end up making it all the way to the championship where they were beaten by Cuba 3–1.^{[citation needed]}

The Brazilian team surprised the baseball world. They start beating Venezuela 3-1, Cuba 4-2, and Colombia on a hard match, 8-7, in the first phase and qualifying for the SuperRound. On this phase beating Panama 5-3, but losing to Mexico 5-1, Brazil could make it through the finals for the first time. Facing Colombia again they were beaten 9–1, thus winning the silver medal. The first medal in Pan American Games of the team's history.

Preliminary roster for 2013 World Baseball Classic.

Manager: Barry Larkin
Coaches: Tiago Caldeira, Marcos Guimaraes, Go Kuroki, Ricardo Matumaru, Mitsuyoshi Sato, Satiro Watanabe.

Preliminaries

Semifinals

Qualifier

–

Pakistan

0

–

Brazil

10

W1

Brazil

0

W2

Israel

1

–

Great Britain

2

–

Israel

5

W3

Israel

9

W5

Great Britain

1

Lower round 1

Lower final

W4

Great Britain

4

L1

Pakistan

0

L3

Brazil

3

L2

Great Britain

14

Date	Local time	Road team	Score	Home team	Inn.	Venue	Game duration	Attendance	Boxscore
Sep 22, 2016	12:00	Pakistan	0-10	Brazil		MCU Park	2:40	1,210
Sep 22, 2016	7:00	Brazil	0-1	Israel		MCU Park	2:56	1,862
Sep 24, 2016	8:00	Great Britain	4-3	Brazil		MCU Park		1,480

• Official Site of the Brazilian federation
• Brazilian page at IBAF