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2008 World Junior Baseball Championship


FieldValue
tourney_nameWorld Junior Baseball Championship
year2008
image2008 World Junior Baseball Championship (emblem).jpg
size175px
countryCanada
dates25 July – 3 August
num_teams12
defending_champion_other
champion_other
num_championships5
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
games42
prevseason[2006](2006-world-junior-baseball-championship)
nextseason[2010](2010-world-junior-baseball-championship)

The 2008 World Junior AAA Championship was held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, from July 25 to August 3, 2008.

Group stage

Pool A

  • 5–0
  • 4–1
  • 3–2
  • 2–3
  • 1–4
  • 0–5

Pool B

  • 4–1
  • 4–1
  • 3–2
  • 3–2
  • 1–4
  • 0–5

Knockout stage

|August 1, 2008 – 19:05|**** |2||1 |August 1, 2008 – 10:00||0||7 |August 1, 2008 – 10:00||4||5 |August 1, 2008 – 15:00||7||8 |August 2, 2008 – 19:00||1||3 |August 2, 2008 – 15:00||6||1 |August 3, 2008 – 16:30||0||7 |August 3, 2008 – 13:15|****|6||2

Fifth through eighth place

|August 2, 2008 – 19:00||9||6 |August 2, 2008 – 14:00|** **|1||0 |August 3, 2008 – 10:00 ||4||12 |August 3, 2008 – 10:00||0|****|2

Final standings

Classification
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9
10
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12

Awards

AwardsPlayerMost Valuable PlayerOutstanding Defensive Player
KOR Yung-hoon Sung
KOR An Chi-hong
PositionPlayerCatcherFirst BaseSecond BaseThird BaseShortstopOutfieldDesignated HitterLeft-handed PitcherRight-handed Pitcher
CAN Brett Lawrie
USA Jeff Malm
MEX Adán Velázquez
USA Harold Martinez
USA Nolan Fontana
KOR Jung Soo-bin
CUB Yasiel Puig
CAN Michael Crouse
KOR Oh Ji-hwan
USA Matt Purke
TPE Che-Ming Su
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