2006 World Baseball Classic Pool A

Pool A of the First Round of the 2006 World Baseball Classic was held at Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan from March 3 to 5, 2006.

Pool A was a round-robin tournament. Each team played the other three teams once, with the top two teams advancing to Pool 1.

Standings edit

Pos Team Pld W L RF RA RD PCT GB Qualification
1   South Korea 3 3 0 15 3 +12 1.000 Advance to second round
2   Japan (H) 3 2 1 34 8 +26 .667 1
3   Chinese Taipei 3 1 2 15 19 −4 .333 2
4   China 3 0 3 6 40 −34 .000 3
Source: [citation needed]
(H) Hosts

Results edit

South Korea 2, Chinese Taipei 0 edit

March 3 11:30 at Tokyo Dome
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  South Korea 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 8 0
  Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
WP: Jae-weong Seo (1−0)   LP: En-yu Lin (0−1)   Sv: Chan Ho Park (1)
Attendance: 5,193 (12.4%)
Umpires: HP − Ramon Armendariz, 1B − Peter Durfee, 2B − Masaharu Kasahara, 3B − Minggao Chen
Boxscore

Japan 18, China 2 edit

March 3 18:30 at Tokyo Dome
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  Japan 0 1 1 0 4 3 2 7 X 18 15 0
  China 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 X 2 7 4
WP: Koji Uehara (1–0)   LP: Quansheng Zhao (0–1)   Sv: Naoyuki Shimizu (1)
Home runs:
JPN: Tsuyoshi Nishioka (1), Kosuke Fukudome (1), Hitoshi Tamura (1)
CHN: Wei Wang (1)
Attendance: 15,869 (37.8%)
Umpires: HP − Brian Knight, 1B − Adrian Johnson, 2B − Un Heo, 3B − Liang-kuei Shieh
Notes: Completed early due to 10–run mercy rule after 8 innings.
Boxscore

South Korea 10, China 1 edit

March 4 11:00 at Tokyo Dome
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1
  South Korea 1 0 3 1 0 2 2 1 X 10 18 0
WP: Min-han Son (1–0)   LP: Kun Chen (0–1)
Home runs:
CHN: Shou Yang (1)
KOR: Seung-yuop Lee 2 (2)
Attendance: 3,925 (9.3%)
Umpires: HP − Peter Durfee, 1B − Ramon Armendariz, 2B − Liang-kuei Shieh, 3B − Masaharu Kasahara
Boxscore

Japan 14, Chinese Taipei 3 edit

March 4 18:00 at Tokyo Dome
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  Japan 3 1 1 0 6 1 2 X X 14 15 0
  Chinese Taipei 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 X X 3 7 0
WP: Daisuke Matsuzaka (1–0)   LP: Chu-chien Hsu (0–1)
Home runs:
JPN: Hitoshi Tamura (2)
TPE: None
Attendance: 31,047 (73.9%)
Umpires: HP − Adrian Johnson, 1B − Brian Knight, 2B − Minggao Chen, 3B − Un Heo
Notes: Completed early due to 10–run mercy rule after 7 innings.
Boxscore

Chinese Taipei 12, China 3 edit

March 5 11:00 at Tokyo Dome
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  Chinese Taipei 0 0 1 4 0 2 0 4 1 12 15 2
  China 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 3 8 3
WP: Wei-lun Pan (1–0)   LP: Nan Wang (0–1)
Home runs:
TPE: Yung-chi Chen (1)
CHN: None
Attendance: 4,577 (10.9%)
Umpires: HP − Ramon Armendariz, 1B − Peter Durfee, 2B − Masaharu Kasahara, 3B − Un Heo
Boxscore

South Korea 3, Japan 2 edit

March 5 18:00 at Tokyo Dome
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  South Korea 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 5 0
  Japan 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 0
WP: Dae-sung Koo (1–0)   LP: Hirotoshi Ishii (0–1)   Sv: Chan Ho Park (2)
Home runs:
KOR: Seung-yuop Lee (3)
JPN: Munenori Kawasaki (1)
Attendance: 40,353 (96.1%)
Umpires: HP − Brian Knight, 1B − Adrian Johnson, 2B − Minggao Chen, 3B − Liang-kuei Shieh
Boxscore

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