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Qualification for the last Olympic baseball spot to begin in Mexico

The Dominican Republic, Venezuela and the Netherlands will compete in the last six places in the 2020 Tomico Olympic baseball tournament, with the final qualifiers starting today at the Mexico venue.

This World Baseball Softball Federation (WBSC) event, originally scheduled to take place in Chinese Taipei, will be held at the Bizball Hermanos Certon Stadium in Puebla, which concludes on Saturday (June 26).

Chinese Taipei, the fourth-largest unclassified for Tokyo 2020, withdrew from the event due to a spike in Kovit-19 cases.

Baseball Australia followed up on Chinese Taipei’s withdrawal on June 10, citing “unsolvable” challenges to travel to Mexico in such a brief announcement.

Australia, which ranks sixth in the WBSC world rankings, would have been one of the favorites to qualify for Tokyo 2020 in Mexico.

China had already withdrawn from Mexico before qualifying.

The Dominican Republic finished second behind Mexico in second place in the United States qualifiers, followed by Venezuela in third place.

Manager Héctor Borg made 10 changes to the US qualifying roster, leaving former Major League Baseball star José Batista.

Remembering just 13 Venezuelan players from that tournament, former Major League Baseball World Series winner Aníbal Sánchez was excluded by manager José Alquaz.

But Venezuela has massive MLP experience in infielder Amerist, who has played in 702 professional games, Catcher Sirinos, who has played in 602 games, Hernández Pérez, who has played in 651 games, Luis Sardias, who has appeared in 182 games. , and the gardener. Corquis Hernández with a record of 394 games.

Catcher Wilson Ramos is a former MLA star.

The Netherlands finished second in the 2019 Africa Europe Qualifiers.

Japan qualified as a guest in the Olympic baseball tournament and Israel joined them after winning the Africa / Europe qualifier in September 2019.

Two more teams qualified for the WBSC Premier 12 tournament in November 2019: Mexico, the winners of the USA and South Korea won Asia / Oceania.

The United States finished fifth earlier this month by a qualifying event.

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