The 2019
European Baseball Championship was an international
baseball
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tournament organized by the
Confederation of European Baseball. The 2019 Championship was held September 7–15, 2019, in
Bonn
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and
Solingen
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,
Germany
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.
The tournament contributed towards qualification to the
2020 Summer Olympics, with the top five teams and
Team South Africa
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competing at the
European-African qualifier for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which was played in September 2019 in
Bologna
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and
Parma
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,
Italy
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.
Qualification
The top 10 teams of the
2016 European Championship qualified automatically for the tournament. Two additional teams, Austria and Israel, qualified from the 14-team B-Pool tournament.
Round 1
Pool A
Standings
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1 game suspended on September 7, 2019 in the 9th due to darkness (Ned led 10 – 2).
Pool B
Standings
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Play-offs
Quarterfinals
Order of games can change after round robin
Semifinals
Bronze
Final
Placement Round 5th - 8th Place
Classification Games
5th Place
Note: There was no game for 7th place.
Placement Round 9th - 12th Place / Relegation Round
There was a scheduling mistake in this placement/relegation round: the first two games, it should have been A5-B6 and B5-A6, instead it was A5-B5 and A6-B6.
Relegation Round
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The loser of the above game is in 12th place and is relegated.
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The loser of the above game is in 11th place and is relegated.
9th Place
Final standings
Statistics leaders
Batting
* Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per game
Pitching
* Minimum 1.0 inning pitched per game
References
External links
Official websiteOfficial stats website
{{European championships in 2019
2019
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European Championships
European Baseball Championship
Sports competitions in North Rhine-Westphalia
International sports competitions hosted by Germany
European Baseball Championship