Baseball at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games

Baseball
at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games
Baseball ; at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games
Venue	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín
Dates	8 — 21 July 1978
Competitors	146 from 9 nations
Teams	9
Medalists
	Cuba
	Nicaragua
	Puerto Rico
	← 1974 1982 →

Baseball was contested at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games in Medellín, Colombia. The games were played at the Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, part of the Atanasio Girardot Sports Complex, between July 8 and 21. It would be the last major international baseball tournament hosted by Colombia until the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games; additionally, it is the only major baseball tournament to be played in Medellín, a region where association football has traditionally enjoyed far more popularity than baseball.

Cuba won its fourth consecutive gold medal for baseball at the Games, bringing its total to eight. The 1978 squad, which was largely the same as the squads for the 1978 Amateur World Series and 1979 Pan American Games, has been cited as the best Cuban national team selection of all time.^[1]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's baseball	Cuba Antonio Muñoz Armando Capiró Luis Casanova Cheíto Rodriguez Pedro Jova Alfonso Urquiola Fernando Sánchez Agustín Marquetti Pedro Medina Rey Vicente Anglada Wilfredo Sánchez Rodolfo Puente Alberto Martínez Braudilio Vinent Lázaro Santana Juan Oliva Félix Pino Gaspar Legón Santiago Mederos Rogelio García	Nicaragua David Green Pablo Juárez Vicente López Roberto Espino Ernesto López Calixto Vargas Julio Moya Juan Espinosa Wayne Taylor Julio Cuaresma César Jarquín Víctor Filippini Porfirio Altamirano Sergio Lacayo Douglas Moody A. Espino A. García	Puerto Rico Milton Crespo Rogelio Negrón Juan Martínez Cesaréo Márquez Luis Mercado David Rodriguez Luis R. Colón Tulio Claudio Ramón Lara Carlos Ponce Henry Cirilo Erwin Hernández Héctor Rivera Raúl Mulero Obdulio Valentín Julio A. Cruz Carlos Crespo Robert Rivera Neftalí Maldonado Jesus Feliciano Sr.

Results

8 July 1978 9:50 (UTC–5)	Puerto Rico	10 – 5	Venezuela	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

8 July 1978 14:00 (UTC–5)	Dominican Republic	11 – 7	Netherlands Antilles	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

8 July 1978 18:00 (UTC–5)	Colombia	5 – 11	Cuba	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

9 July 1978 9:10 (UTC–5)	Nicaragua	7 – 2	Netherlands Antilles	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

9 July 1978 12:30 (UTC–5)	Puerto Rico	4 – 18 (F/7)	Cuba	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

9 July 1978 14:35 (UTC–5)	Dominican Republic	14 – 7	Colombia	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

10 July 1978 9:07 (UTC–5)	Venezuela	5 – 15 (F/7)	Cuba	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

10 July 1978 12:00 (UTC–5)	Nicaragua	15 – 5	Colombia	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

10 July 1978 15:15 (UTC–5)	Puerto Rico	16 – 4 (F/8)	Cuba	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

11 July 1978 9:00 (UTC–5)	Netherlands Antilles	10 – 13	Colombia	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

11 July 1978 12:30 (UTC–5)	Venezuela	16 – 1 (F/7)	Dominican Republic	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

11 July 1978 15:30 (UTC–5)	Nicaragua	7 – 2	Puerto Rico	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

12 July 1978 9:00 (UTC–5)	Cuba	16 – 3 (F/7)	Dominican Republic	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

12 July 1978 11:43 (UTC–5)	Netherlands Antilles	6 – 17 (F/7)	Puerto Rico	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

12 July 1978 14:40 (UTC–5)	Venezuela	5 – 6	Nicaragua	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

13 July 1978 9:10 (UTC–5)	Netherlands Antilles	8 – 9	Venezuela	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

13 July 1978 12:50 (UTC–5)	Cuba	12 – 0 (F/7)	Nicaragua	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

13 July 1978 18:20 (UTC–5)	Colombia	10 – 7	Puerto Rico	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

14 July 1978 12:00 (UTC–5)	Dominican Republic	2 – 13 (F/7)	Nicaragua	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

14 July 1978 9:00 (UTC–5)	Colombia	2 – 12 (F/7)	Venezuela	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

15 July 1978 9:00 (UTC–5)	Venezuela	13 – 17	Puerto Rico	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

15 July 1978 13:50 (UTC–5)	Netherlands Antilles	5 – 10	Dominican Republic	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

15 July 1978 17:15 (UTC–5)	Cuba	11 – 2	Colombia	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

16 July 1978 9:10 (UTC–5)	Netherlands Antilles	0 – 8	Nicaragua	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

16 July 1978 11:40 (UTC–5)	Venezuela	31 – 2 (F/7)	Puerto Rico	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

16 July 1978 15:00 (UTC–5)	Colombia	8 – 17	Dominican Republic	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

17 July 1978 9:00 (UTC–5)	Cuba	21 – 2 (F/7)	Venezuela	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

17 July 1978 12:10 (UTC–5)	Colombia	7 – 11	Nicaragua	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

17 July 1978 9:00 (UTC–5)	Dominican Republic	4 – 10	Puerto Rico	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

18 July 1978 9:15 (UTC–5)	Colombia	4 – 11	Netherlands Antilles	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

18 July 1978 12:00 (UTC–5)	Dominican Republic	7 – 6	Venezuela	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

18 July 1978 16:00 (UTC–5)	Puerto Rico	7 – 4	Nicaragua	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

19 July 1978 9:10 (UTC–5)	Dominican Republic	9 – 21 (F/7)	Cuba	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

19 July 1978 12:10 (UTC–5)	Puerto Rico	20 – 3 (F/7)	Netherlands Antilles	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

19 July 1978 15:10 (UTC–5)	Nicaragua	9 – 5	Venezuela	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

20 July 1978 9:00 (UTC–5)	Puerto Rico	3 – 5	Colombia	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

20 July 1978 12:00 (UTC–5)	Nicaragua	11 – 14	Cuba	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

20 July 1978 15:30 (UTC–5)	Venezuela	12 – 1 (F/7)	Netherlands Antilles	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

21 July 1978 9:10 (UTC–5)	Dominican Republic	10 – 3	Dominican Republic	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

21 July 1978 9:10 (UTC–5)	Venezuela	13 – 5	Colombia	Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín

Source: ^[2]

Final standings

Pos	Team	W	L
	Cuba	10	0
	Nicaragua	9	3
	Puerto Rico	7	5
4	Dominican Republic	5	7
5	Venezuela	5	7
6	Colombia	3	9
7	Netherlands Antilles	1	9

Statistical leaders

Statistic	Name	Total
Batting average	Antonio Muñoz	.714
Hits	Armando Capiro	27
Runs batted in	Cheíto Rodríguez	37
Home runs	Cheíto Rodríguez	15
Stolen bases	Henry Jones	3
Wins	4 tied with^[a]	3

Notes

^ Braudilio Vinent (CUB), Juan Olivo (CUB), Rogelio García (CUB), and Julio Moya (NIC)

References

^ Marino Martinez (5 September 2015). "¿Cuál fue el mejor equipo cubano de la historia en eventos internacionales?" (in Spanish). El Nuevo Herald. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
^ "Memoria de los XIII Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos y del Caribe" (PDF). Centro Caribe Sports (in Spanish). p. 359. Retrieved 13 September 2024.

External links

Central American and Caribbean Games baseball medalists^[usurped]

[3] Braudilio Vinent (CUB), Juan Olivo (CUB), Rogelio García (CUB), and Julio Moya (NIC)

[1] Marino Martinez (5 September 2015). "¿Cuál fue el mejor equipo cubano de la historia en eventos internacionales?" (in Spanish). El Nuevo Herald. Retrieved 13 September 2024.

[2] "Memoria de los XIII Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos y del Caribe" (PDF). Centro Caribe Sports (in Spanish). p. 359. Retrieved 13 September 2024.

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