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Czech Republic national baseball team
Information
Country Czech Republic
ConfederationConfederation of European Baseball
WBSC ranking
Current 15 Steady (18 December 2023)[1]
Highest14 (2 times; latest in December 2021)
Lowest25 (December 2012)
World Baseball Classic
Appearances1 (first in 2023)
Best result14th (2023)
World Cup
Appearances1 (first in 2009)
Best result20th (2009)
European Championship
Appearances11 (first in 1997)
Best result4th (2014)

The Czech Republic national baseball team is the national baseball team of the Czech Republic. The team competes in the biennial European Baseball Championship and debuted in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

Roster

Czech Republic roster - 2023 World Baseball Classic
Players Coaches
Pitchers
  • 18 Jeff Barto
  • 14 Filip Čapka
  •  7 Tomáš Duffek
  • 63 Lukáš Ercoli
  • 60 Lukáš Hlouch
  •  1 Michal Kovala
  • 97 Marek Krejčiřík
  • 43 David Mergans
  • 15 Marek Minařík
  • 34 Jan Novák
  • 23 Daniel Padyšák
  • 57 Jake Rabinowitz
  • 35 Ondřej Satoria
  • 13 Martin Schneider
  •  8 Jan Tomek
 Catchers

Infielders

  •  2 Jakub Hajtmar
  • 40 Jakub Kubica
  • 77 Vojtěch Menšík
  • 49 Martin Mužík
  • 31 Milan Prokop
  • 16 Filip Smola
  •  9 Eric Sogard
  • 99 Petr Zýma

Outfielders

  •  5 William Escala
  • 20 Arnošt Dubový
  • 30 Jakub Grepl
  • 73 Marek Chlup
  • 33 Matěj Menšík
 Manager
  • 13 Pavel Chadim

Coaches

  • 41 Joe Truesdale (Bench Coach)
  • 22 John Hussey (Pitching Coach)
  • 47 Alex Derhak (First Base Coach)
  • 17 David Winkler (Third Base Coach)
  • 25 Dusan Randak (Pitching Coach)


Results and fixtures

The following is a list of professional baseball match 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

2019

Euro Championship GS September 7 Czech Republic  1–6  Israel Weyersburg Park, Germany
12:30 CET Boxscore Attendance: 150
Euro Championship GS September 8 Netherlands  6–8  Czech Republic Bonn 1, Germany
15:30 CET Boxscore Attendance: 1,200
Euro Championship GS September 9 Czech Republic  3–4 (F/10)  Great Britain Weyersburg Park, Germany
12:30 CET Boxscore Attendance: 150
Euro Championship GS September 10 Czech Republic  10–3  Sweden Weyersburg Park, Germany
16:30 CET Boxscore Attendance: 150
Euro Championship GS September 11 Germany  6–10  Czech Republic Bonn 1, Germany
19:00 CET Boxscore Attendance: 700
Euro Championship QF September 13 Spain  5–4 (F/10)  Czech Republic Weyersburg Park, Germany
16:00 CET Boxscore Attendance: 150
Euro Championship CG September 14 Czech Republic  5–4  Belgium Bonn 2, Germany
11:00 CET Boxscore Attendance: 80
Euro Championship 5th September 15 Czech Republic  4–3  Germany Bonn 1, Germany
11:00 CET Boxscore Attendance: 1,900

2020

Friendly November 16 Czech Republic  11–3  Spain Centro Insular, Spain
Boxscore
Friendly November 17 Czech Republic  3–4  Spain Centro Insular, Spain
Boxscore
Friendly November 18 Czech Republic  4–7  Spain Centro Insular, Spain
Boxscore
Friendly November 19 Czech Republic  3–16  Spain Centro Insular, Spain
Boxscore

2021

Friendly September 4 Czech Republic  9–5  Austria Diving Ducks Field, Austria
Boxscore
Friendly September 5 Germany  6–3  Czech Republic Diving Ducks Field, Austria
Boxscore
Euro Championship GS September 12 Czech Republic  6–1  Sweden Aluffi Stadium, Italy
Boxscore
Euro Championship GS September 13 Netherlands  11–1  Czech Republic Paolo II Palace, Italy
Boxscore
Euro Championship GS September 14 Slovakia  3–13 (F/7)  Czech Republic Paschetto Stadium, Italy
Boxscore
Euro Championship QF September 16 Israel  3–2  Czech Republic Paolo II Palace, Italy
Boxscore
Euro Championship CG September 17 Czech Republic  17–2  Croatia Paschetto Stadium, Italy
Boxscore
Euro Championship 5th September 18 Great Britain  5–8  Czech Republic Paolo II Palace, Italy
Boxscore

2022

Friendly March 17 Czech Republic  15–2  France Centro Insular, Spain
Boxscore
Friendly June 22 Czech Republic  7–1  Greece Prague Eagles Complex, Czech Republic
Boxscore
Friendly June 24 Czech Republic  2–3  Spain Prague Eagles Complex, Czech Republic
Boxscore
Friendly September 6 Germany  1–0  Czech Republic Prague Eagles Complex, Czech Republic
Boxscore
Friendly September 7 Germany  2–3  Czech Republic Prague Eagles Complex, Czech Republic
Boxscore
World Baseball Classic Q September 17 Spain  21–7 (F/7)  Czech Republic Armin-Wolf-Arena, Germany
13:00 CET WP: Rogelio Armenteros
HR: Jesus Ustariz (1), Edison Valerio (1, 2) 		Boxscore LP: Marek Minarik
HR: Vojtech Mensik (1), Marek Chlup (1), Matej Mensik (1), Martin Muzik (1) 		Attendance: 1,725
Umpires: Darius Ghani (HP), Mark Winters (1B), Roberto LaMadrid (2B), John Byrne (3B)
World Baseball Classic Q September 18 France  1–7  Czech Republic Armin-Wolf-Arena, Germany
13:00 CET LP: Marc-Andre Habeck (0-1)
 Boxscore WP: Lukas Ercoli (1-0)
HR: Vojtech Mensik (2) 		Attendance: 911
Umpires: Mark Winters (HP), Roberto LaMadrid (1B), Kyohei Makita (2B), Young Chou Kwon (3B)
World Baseball Classic Q September 20 Czech Republic  8–4  Germany Armin-Wolf-Arena, Germany
13:00 CET WP: Daniel Padysak (1-0)
Sv: Michal Kovala (1)
HR: Peter Zyma (1), Martin Cervenka (1, 2) 		Boxscore LP: Michael Bienlien (0-1)
HR: William Germaine (1) 		Attendance: 1,102
Umpires: Kyohei Makita (HP), Tyler Jones (1B), Mark Winters (2B), Darius Gahni (3B)
World Baseball Classic Q September 21 Czech Republic  3–1  Spain Armin-Wolf-Arena, Germany
19:00 CET WP: Martin Schneider
Sv: Marek Minarik (1)
HR: Martin Muzik (1), Marek Chlup (1) 		Boxscore LP: Ronald Medrano
 Attendance: 1,229
Umpires: HP: Roberto LaMadrid, 1B: Darius Ghani, 2B: Young Chou Kwon, 3B: Jon Byrne.

2023

World Baseball Classic GS March 10 Czech Republic  8–5  China Tokyo Dome, Japan
12:00 JT WP: Marek Minarik (1–0)
HR: Matej Mensik (1), Martin Muzik (1) 		Boxscore LP: Hai-Cheng Gong (0–1)
 Umpires: HP - Chan-Jung Chang, 1B - Pat Hoberg, 2B - Ben May, 3B - Fabrizio Fabrizzi
World Baseball Classic GS March 11 Czech Republic  2–10  Japan Tokyo Dome, Japan
19:00 JT LP: Ondřej Satoria (0–1)
 Boxscore WP: Rōki Sasaki (1–0)
Sv: Hiroya Miyagi (1)
HR: Shugo Maki (2) 		Attendance: 41,637
Umpires: HP: Ben May, 1B: Ramon De Jesus, 2B: Cuti Suárez, 3B: Fabrizio Fabrizzi
World Baseball Classic GS March 12 Czech Republic  3–7  South Korea Tokyo Dome, Japan
12:00 JT LP: Lukas Ercoli (0–1)
 Boxscore WP: Park Se-woong (1–0)
Sv: Lee Yong-chan (1)
HR: Ha-seong Kim (2) 		Umpires: HP – Delfin Colon, 1B – Laz Diaz, 2B – Fabrizio Fabrizzi, 3B – Ben May
World Baseball Classic GS March 13 Australia  8–3  Czech Republic Tokyo Dome, Japan
12:00 JT WP: Daniel McGrath (1–0)
HR: Alex Hall (2) 		Boxscore LP: Marek Minařík (1–1)
 Umpires: HP: Ramon De Jesus. 1B: Delfin Colon. 2B: Laz Díaz. 3B: Fabrizio Fabrizzi.

International tournament results

World Baseball Classic

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 did not qualify 0 2 6 28
2017 did not qualify 1 2 22 12
Japan 2023 Round 1 14th 1 3 16 25 3 1 25 27
Total Round 1 1/5 1 3 16 25 4 5 60 67

2009 IBAF World Cup

In 2009, Europe hosted the IBAF World Cup, the first time in history the Baseball World Cup was not hosted by a specific country. Prague hosted Group A of the pool round, and the Czech Republic team finished 20th, going 0–3 with losses to Australia, Mexico, and Chinese Taipei.

European Baseball Championship

Team Czech Republic competed at the 2019 European Baseball Championship, and came in fifth, behind Team Israel. Among the players who competed for it were Martin Červenka and Marek Minařík.[3]

Olympic qualifying tournament

Because Team Czech Republic finished in the top five in the 2019 European Baseball Championship, it moved on to the 2020 Olympics qualifiers in Italy in September 2019.[4][5] There, it came in third, behind Israel and the Netherlands. Finished 3rd behind the Netherlands and Italy in 2003 for the Athens 2004 games.

References

  1. ^ "The WBSC World Ranking". WBSC. 18 December 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Czech Republic in the WBSC Ranking (Men's baseball)". World Baseball Softball Confederation. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2019.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ Retired, shmired | Jewish Baseball News
  5. ^ MLB Monday (August 26-September 1, 2019) | Jewish Baseball News
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