2022 Men's Softball World Championship


The 2022 WBSC Men's Softball World Championship was the 17th Men's Softball World Championship, an international softball tournament taking place in Auckland, New Zealand from 26 November to 4 December 2022. Originally scheduled for February 2021, the tournament was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. New Zealand last hosted the tournament in 2013. It will be the 17th edition of the tournament.
Argentina were the defending champions, and lost the third place playoff to the United States. Australia defeated Canada 5–2 in the final to claim their second World Cup.

Officials

15 umpires were selected by the WBSC for the tournament.
ConfederationUmpires
WBSC AfricaAbel Mataboge
WBSC AmericasWilliam Burwell
WBSC AmericasGeneviève Gaudreau
WBSC AmericasScott McLaren
WBSC AsiaMitsunori Kusamoto
WBSC AsiaNaoya Matsuda
WBSC EuropeMariana Atanasova
WBSC EuropeJens Jakobsen
WBSC EuropeMichal Zidek
WBSC OceaniaJason Carter
WBSC OceaniaLeigh Evans
WBSC OceaniaDavid Fortin
WBSC OceaniaMark Porteous
WBSC OceaniaLance Brown
WBSC OceaniaTony Kaiaruna

ConfederationScorers
WBSC AsiaYu-Wei Horng
WBSC AsiaFuka Nakamura
WBSC EuropeFeiko Drost
WBSC OceaniaKirsty Andrews
WBSC OceaniaMarie Byrne
WBSC OceaniaCarolyn McQueen
WBSC OceaniaMore Natana
WBSC OceaniaTracee Topia
WBSC OceaniaSharon Williams

ConfederationTechnical Commission
WBSC AmericasRay Gutierrez
WBSC AsiaShuro Tsukioka
WBSC EuropeAnna Battigeli
WBSC EuropeGabriele Hardinger
WBSC OceaniaRata Joanne
WBSC OceaniaLeathart Jane
WBSC OceaniaClarke Raewyn

Venue

Rosedale Park in Rosedale, Auckland hosted all the games across two fields.
Auckland
Rosedale Park
Capacity: 3,500

Opening Round

Group A








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Group B








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Placement Round

The bottom three teams from each group progress to the placement round. Head to head results against the other bottom three team from the Opening Round will carry over to help determine final placings. In games between equal seeds, a coin toss determines the home team.







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Super Round

The top three teams from each group progress to the super round. Head to head results against the other top three team from the Opening Round will carry over to help determine final placings and the four nations that qualify for the Final Round. In games between equal seeds, a coin toss determines the home team.







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Final Round

Third place play-off



Final



Statistics

''The statistics below include all opening, super and placement round games.''

Homeruns

3 homeruns
  • Alan Peker
  • Nick Shailes
  • Bryan Abrey
  • Derek Mayson
  • Kazuya Toriyama
  • Blaine Milheim
2 homeruns
1 homerun
  • Santiago Carril
  • Manuel Godoy
  • Julian Jemmott
  • Marshall Kronk
  • Hayden Mathews
  • Joshua McGovern
  • Scott Patterson
  • Shane Boland
  • Quinten Bruce
  • Bradley Ezekiel
  • Mathieu Roy
  • Ty Sebastian
  • Reynaldo Lamote
  • Osvaldo Pérez
  • Yesander Rodriguez
  • Miguel Savigne
  • Tomáš Klein
  • Marek Malý
  • Tobias Holmelund
  • Benjamin Enoka
  • Thomas Enoka
  • Cole Evans
  • Joel Evans
  • Jerome Raemaki
  • Pita Rona
  • Denmark Bathan
  • Melvin de Castro
  • Justine Rosales
  • Melvin de Castro
  • Tyler Croft
  • Yusef Davis Jr.
  • Erick Ochoa
  • Matt Palazzo
  • Cameron Schiller
  • Rafael Flores
  • Edinson Marrero

Leading players

StatPlayerTotal
AVG Quinten Bruce.550
HR6 players3
RBI Bryan Abrey11
R Scott Patterson10
H Blaine Milheim
Jonathan Lynch
14
SB Alan Peker
Yusef Davis Jr.
3

StatPlayerTotal
W Huemul Mata
Jack Besgrove
Alain Román
4
L Kim Hansen6
ERA Roman Godoy1.04
SO Jack Besgrove71
IP Alain Román40.2
SV Roman Godoy
Guber Plutin
Bradley Kilpatrick
2

Broadcasting

Whakaata Māori broadcast all 50 games on the MĀORI+ app with all New Zealand games also on television. International viewers were able to stream the tournament on WBSC's OTT Channel GameTime.

Symbols

Match balls

The match balls used for the 2022 tournament were the Mizuno M150 balls, which were also used in the Tokyo 2022 Olympics. Mizuno supplied 1,152 balls for the tournament.