WBSC U-15 Women's Softball World Cup Opening Round stats review: USA lead the way

After an exhilarating four days of Opening Round action at the WBSC U-15 Women's Softball World Cup 2025, it may not be a surprise to many that defending champions USA dominated not only their games - scoring 61 runs in five victories and conceding only one to Chinese Taipei in their opening game - but also the tournament statistics.

The World No. 1 programme showcased an unstoppable lineup with USA hitters combining for 56 hits, including four home runs, with a .591 batting average and a 1.387 OPS.

Puerto Rico is the second-best batting average with .398 and among the teams qualified for the Super Round, only Japan is the other one with a .300+ batting average (.323).

Puerto Rico, Japan and Australia are the only other teams who hit home runs. They had one each.

USA also had impressive pitching. They didn't allow a run in 21 innings, striking out 26. The opponents could manage only five hits against them, with a batting average of .077.

Japan has the second-best ERA (0.23; the opponents combined a .131 batting average), followed by Puerto Rico (1.99-.169), Czechia (3.42 - .279), Mexico (4.15 - .265) and Chinese Taipei (5.31 - .300).

USA have also the best defence. They are tied with Puerto Rico at two errors in five games. Among the Super Round teams, Mexico follows with four, Chinese Taipei comes next with five, Japan has six and Czechia eight.

Mioka Mochizuki (Japan) is the leading hitter of the tournament with a .692 batting average. Allison Eicholtz leads as the only player with two home runs, while Khloe Williams (pictured in cover photo) has 12 runs batted in (RBIs).

Japan's Haru Kitamura is the only pitcher who hasn't allowed an earned run while Rachel Clegg (Canada) has the most strikeouts (31) and the most innings pitched (22).

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