John Gall Event: Baseball

***OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDALIST***

• Bronze medalist batted .242 (8-for-33) in eight Olympic contests, while tying for second on Team USA with four doubles and tying for third with five RBI...the former Cardinal slugger also belted one of Team USA's 10 home runs...Team USA captured a bronze medal in the final Olympic baseball competition, rallying from a 4-1 deficit to defeat Japan 8-4...the Americans finished the tournament with a 6-3 record, winning five of their last six games...in the bronze medal game, Team USA erased an early 4-1 hole by scoring three runs in the third inning to tie, then erupting for a four-run fifth to put the game away...(posted: Aug. 23)

• Was hitless in four at-bats as Team USA fell to Cuba 10-2 in one of two semifinal games last night...The Americans still have a shot at bringing home a medal in the final Olympic baseball competition, as they will face Japan in the bronze medal game first pitch at 7:30pm PT tonight - 10:30am Saturday morning in Beijing)...After dropping a 5-4, 11-inning contest to Cuba in preliminary round play, Team USA kept this game close as well until the later innings...The Americans pulled within 3-2 with a run in the top of the fifth, but Cuba plated one in the sixth then scored six times in the bottom of the eighth to blow the game open...(posted: Aug. 22)

• Went 2-for-3 with a solo home run and a double in Team USA's 4-2 victory over Chinese Taipei...The victory clinched Team USA's berth in the semifinals with one preliminary round game remaining...With the score knotted at 1-1, Gall led off the bottom of the sixth with a solo home run that put the U.S. in front by a run, and started a rally which saw the American side take a 3-1 lead...Later, with Team USA holding on to a 3-2 lead in the eighth, Gall led off the frame with a double and came around to score the insurance run on Jason Donald's base hit two batters later...Team USA (4-2) will now face Japan Wednesday morning at 4 a.m. PT. Although both teams have qualified for the medal round, by virtue of the squads owning matching 4-2 records, Wednesday's winner will earn the No. 3 seed in the semifinals and face Cuba (5-1), with the loser facing No. 1 seed Korea (6-0)...(posted: Aug. 19)

• Went 2-for-4 with an RBI to help Team USA rally from a 4-0 deficit to defeat Canada 5-4 ... Gall is now 5-for-11 over his last three games for Team USA, which is 2-2 overall...(posted: Aug. 16)

• Reached base safely three times as Team USA defeated the Netherlands 7-0 in a game shortened to eight innings due to rain...went 2-for-3 with two runs scored, a double and a walk as the designated hitter...Team USA is next in action Friday morning in Beijing, with an 11:30 a.m. contest (8:30 p.m. PT) against a Cuba club that is expected to be in medal contention...(posted: Aug. 14)

• Team USA dropped its opener of the 2008 Olympics in heartbreaking fashion, erasing a 6-4 deficit with a three-run top of the ninth, only to see Korea score twice in the bottom of the frame for an 8-7, walk-off win...Gall led off and played left field, but was hitless in five at-bats...(posted: Aug. 13)

• Went 4-for-16 with a double and three RBI as Team USA won three of four pre-Olympic exhibiton games against Team Canada...Team USA will open Olympic play on Wednesday, Aug. 13 against Korea, with first pitch scheduled for 3:00 a.m. PT (6:00 p.m. in Beijing)...(posted: Aug. 10)

• Former Cardinal outfielder (1996-2000) earned a spot on the 24-man roster for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Baseball Team, becoming the seventh Olympian associated with the Stanford Baseball program...enjoyed a prolific four-year career on The Farm, and is still the program's all-time leader in hits (356), doubles (80) and RBI (263)...a three-time First Team All-Pac-10 performer, he also ranks among Stanford's all-time leaders in batting average (3rd - .358), games (3rd - 251), at-bats (2nd - 1,027), runs (7th - 214) and home runs (T3rd - 46)...a two-year veteran of international competition with Team USA (1998 and '99), he is currently enjoying a stellar 2008 season with Triple-A Albuquerque in the Florida Marlins organization...(posted: Aug. 1)