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The Olympic baseball competition begins with the group stage involving two groups of three teams each. Within those groups, each team will play a round-robin schedule – i.e., each team in a group plays each of the other two teams in that same group for a total of six games across both groups. The winner of each quarterfinal goes to one semifinal, while the other semifinal is populated by the two teams emerging from the loser’s bracket.

The winner of each quarterfinal meets in the first semifinal game, and the winner of that contest advances to the gold medal game, The loser will be placed in the second semifinal and face a team advancing from the loser’s bracket.