2013 World Baseball Classic Pool 1

Pool 1 of the Second Round of the 2013 World Baseball Classic was held at Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan from March 8 to 12, 2013.

Pool 1 was a modified double-elimination tournament. The winners for the first games matched up in the second game, while the losers faced each other in an elimination game. The winners of the elimination game then played the losers of the non-elimination game in another elimination game. The remaining two teams then played each other to determine seeding for the semifinals.

Bracket edit

PreliminariesQualifiersSeeding
BR  Netherlands6
AW  Cuba2
W1  Netherlands4
W2  Japan16
AR  Japan4
BW  Chinese Taipei3
W4  Japan10
W5  Netherlands6
Lower round 1Lower final
W3  Cuba6
L1  Cuba14L4  Netherlands7
L2  Chinese Taipei0

Pool 1 MVP:   Hirokazu Ibata[1]

Results edit

Netherlands 6, Cuba 2 edit

March 8 12:00 at Tokyo Dome
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  Netherlands 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 6 14 0
  Cuba 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 12 2
WP: Diego Markwell (2−0)   LP: Ismel Jimenez (1−1)
Home runs:
NED: Curt Smith (1), Jonathan Schoop (1)
CUB: Alfredo Despaigne (1), Yulieski Gourriel (1)
Attendance: 38,588 (91.9%)
Umpires: HP − Alfonso Márquez, 1B − Gerry Davis, 2B − Trevor Grieve, 3B − Carlos Rey
Boxscore

Japan 4, Chinese Taipei 3 edit

March 8 19:00 at Tokyo Dome
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
  Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 13 0
  Chinese Taipei 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 3 11 0
WP: Kazuhisa Makita (1−0)   LP: Hung-wen Chen (0−1)   Sv: Toshiya Sugiuchi (1)
Attendance: 43,527 (103.6%)
Umpires: HP − Chris Guccione, 1B − Trevor Grieve, 2B − Gerry Davis, 3B − Felix Tejada
Boxscore

Cuba 14, Chinese Taipei 0 edit

March 9 19:00 at Tokyo Dome
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0 4 1
  Cuba 2 0 0 4 0 8 X X X 14 12 0
WP: Danny Betancourt (2−0)   LP: Ching-lung Lo (0−1)
Home runs:
TPE: None
CUB: Frederich Cepeda (1), Yasmany Tomas (1), José Dariel Abreu (1),
Alfredo Despaigne (2)
Attendance: 12,884 (30.7%)
Umpires: HP − Gerry Davis, 1B − Carlos Rey, 2B − Chris Guccione, 3B − Felix Tejada
Notes: Completed early due to 10–run mercy rule after 7 innings.
Boxscore

Japan 16, Netherlands 4 edit

March 10 19:00 at Tokyo Dome
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  Japan 1 5 1 3 1 1 4 X X 16 17 0
  Netherlands 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 X X 4 6 3
WP: Kenta Maeda (2−0)   LP: Rob Cordemans (1−1)
Home runs:
JPN: Takashi Toritani (1), Nobuhiro Matsuda (1), Seiichi Uchikawa (1),
Atsunori Inaba (1), Yoshio Itoi (1), Hayato Sakamoto (1)
NED: None
Attendance: 37,745 (89.9%)
Umpires: HP − Alfonso Márquez, 1B − Chris Guccione, 2B − Felix Tejada, 3B − Trevor Grieve
Notes: Completed early due to 10–run mercy rule after 7 innings.
Boxscore

Netherlands 7, Cuba 6 edit

March 11 19:00 at Tokyo Dome
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  Cuba 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 6 12 2
  Netherlands 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 1 7 12 0
WP: Loek van Mil (1−0)   LP: Yander Guevara (0−1)
Home runs:
CUB: José Dariel Abreu (2)
NED: Andrelton Simmons (1)
Attendance: 7,613 (18.1%)
Umpires: HP − Chris Guccione, 1B − Alfonso Márquez, 2B − Carlos Rey, 3B − Trevor Grieve
Notes: Two outs when winning run scored.
Boxscore

Japan 10, Netherlands 6 edit

March 12 19:00 at Tokyo Dome
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  Netherlands 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 6 10 0
  Japan 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 2 X 10 9 0
WP: Kenji Otonari (1−1)   LP: David Bergman (0−1)
Home runs:
NED: Andrelton Simmons (2)
JPN: Shinnosuke Abe 2 (2)
Attendance: 30,301 (72.1%)
Umpires: HP − Gerry Davis, 1B − Alfonso Márquez, 2B − Carlos Rey, 3B − Felix Tejada
Boxscore

References edit

  1. ^ Fidler, Gabriel (March 12, 2013). "Abe's Two-Homer Inning Propels Japan in Win". Extra Innings.

External links edit