The 2019 European Baseball Championship was an international baseball tournament organized by the Confederation of European Baseball. The championship was held September 7âÂÂ15, 2019 in Bonn and Solingen, Germany. The Netherlands defended its European title, winning its 23rd continental championship. The Dutch defeated Italy in the championship game, while Spain defeated Israel in the third-place game. Ademar Rifaela of the Netherlands was the tournament most valuable player.
The tournament was part of qualifications for the 2020 Summer Olympics, with the top five teams and Team South Africa competing at the European-African qualifier for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which was played in September 2019 in Bologna and Parma, Italy.
The top 10 teams from the 2016 European championship qualified automatically for the tournament. Two additional teams, Austria and Israel, qualified from the 14-team B-Pool tournament.
<sup>1</sup> game suspended on September 7, 2019, in the 9th due to darkness (Ned led 10 â 2).
Order of games can change after round robin
Note: There was no game for 7th place.
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.
The loser of the above game is in 12th place and is relegated.
The loser of the above game is in 11th place and is relegated.
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per game
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Minimum 1.0 inning pitched per game
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