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

Preliminaries

Qualifiers

Seeding

BR

Netherlands

6

AW

Cuba

2

W1

Netherlands

4

W2

Japan

16

AR

Japan

4

BW

Chinese Taipei

3

W4

Japan

10

1W

W5

Netherlands

6

1R

L1

Cuba

14

L2

Chinese Taipei

0

W3

Cuba

6

L4

Netherlands

7

Pool 1 MVP: Hirokazu Ibata[1]

Results

• All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

Netherlands 6, Cuba 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

External links

• Official website