2006 Intercontinental Cup (baseball)

The 2006 IBAF Intercontinental Cup was held in Taichung, Taiwan from November 9 through the 19th. Eight countries contested the tournament, which was played at Taichung Baseball Field and the newly built Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium. The participating countries were Cuba, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines in addition to the hosts from Chinese Taipei (Taiwan). The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation.

Ticket Sales

Tickets went on sale at noon on Friday, November 3 for the games of the first four days over the Internet. Over following days, tickets for the next day not yet offered will then become available. Internet sales of tickets will end at noon two days prior to the date the game is played. The Sunday, November 11 game between Taiwan and South Korea was the first game to sell out, having sold out within three hours of tickets being made available.

Round robin

The eight teams will play a round robin format in which they will each play the other teams once. This means that each team will play seven games in this first phase of the tournament over the course of eight days.

First pitch in a competitive game at the stadium in a game between the Philippines and South Korea in the 2006 Intercontinental Cup

A look in the Philippine dugout during the game against South Korea on November 9

Japan v. Cuba

A look inside the Korean dugout

Taiwanese fans before a game.

Date	Time	Venue	Home	Guest	Result
11/9	10:00	TF	Cuba	The Netherlands	3-2
11/9	13:00	IBC	South Korea	The Philippines	10-0 (6½ innings)
11/9	14:00	TF	Australia	Japan	3-4 (10 innings)
11/9	19:30	IBC	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	Italy	3-13
11/10	13:00	IBC	The Philippines	Australia	2-12 (8 innings)
11/10	13:00	TF	South Korea	Cuba	1-8
11/10	18:30	IBC	Japan	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	4-3
11/10	18:30	TF	The Netherlands	Italy	10-8
11/11	13:00	IBC	Italy	Cuba	0-9
11/11	13:00	TF	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	Australia	4-2
11/11	18:30	TF	The Philippines	The Netherlands	0-22 (7 innings)
11/11	18:30	IBC	Japan	South Korea	2-1
11/12	13:00	IBC	South Korea	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	7-9 (12 innings)
11/12	13:00	TF	The Netherlands	Japan	0-3
11/12	18:30	TF	The Philippines	Cuba	0-24 (7 innings)
11/12	18:30	IBC	Australia	Italy	8-7 (13 innings)
11/13			Rest Day
11/14	13:00	IBC	Cuba	Japan	6-3
11/14	13:00	TF	Italy	The Philippines	9-0
11/14	18:30	IBC	Australia	South Korea	10-9
11/14	18:30	TF	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	The Netherlands	2-4 (10 innings)
11/15	13:00	TF	Italy	Japan	3-6
11/15	13:00	IBC	South Korea	The Netherlands	2-13 (8 innings)
11/15	18:30	IBC	Cuba	Australia	13-0 (4½ innings)¹
11/15	18:30	TF	The Philippines	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	0-14 (6 innings)¹
11/16	13:00	IBC	Italy	South Korea	1-5
11/16	13:00	TF	Japan	The Philippines	17-0 (6½ innings)
11/16	18:30	TF	The Netherlands	Australia	4-3 (11 innings) ²
11/16	18:30	IBC	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	Cuba	4-3

¹ Game called due to bad weather condition.
² Dutch manager ejected in the top of the eleventh for obscenities in argument with an umpire.

TF = Taichung Baseball Field
IBC = Intercontinental Baseball Stadium

Table

Rank	Country	W	L	Pct.	RS	RA	DI	RA/9DI
1	Cuba	6	1	.857	66	10	56	1.61
2	Japan	6	1	.857	39	16	60	2.40
3	The Netherlands	5	2	.714	55	21	51	3.05
4	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	4	3	.571	39	33	64	4.64
5	Australia	3	4	.429	38	43	62.3	6.21
6	South Korea	2	5	.286	35	43	62	6.24
7	Italy	2	5	.286	41	41	64	5.77
8	The Philippines	0	7	.000	2	108	48	20.25

DI=Innings played on defense

RA/9DI=Runs allowed for every nine defensive innings played

Tiebreaker
- head-to-head
- RA/9DI
Notes
- Cuba wins tiebreaker over Japan based on head-to-head result
- South Korea wins tiebreaker over Italy based on head-to-head result

Classification Round

The teams that finish in fifth through eighth place in the round robin will face off in the consolation round. All consolation round matches will be played at Taichung Baseball Field.

5-8th place		5th place

November 18 (13:00)

Italy	8
		November 19 (15:00)
South Korea	3
		Italy	2
November 18 (18:30)
		Australia	3
Philippines	0

Australia	17
		7th place

		November 19 (10:00)

		South Korea	5

		Philippines	1

Medal Round

Taiwanese players thank the home fans after the loss to Cuba

Cuba receives the gold medal between the silver and bronze medalists

The top four teams from the round robin will enter the medal round of the competition. All medal round games will be played at the Intercontinental Baseball Stadium.

Semi-finals		Final

November 18 (13:00)

The Netherlands	3
		November 19 (18:30)
Japan	0
		The Netherlands	3
November 18 (18:30)
		Cuba	6
Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	4

Cuba	5
		Third place

		November 19 (13:00)

		Japan	0

		Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	4

Final line score


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	R	H	E
Cuba	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	6	7	0
The Netherlands	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	9	5

Final standings

Rank	Country
1	Cuba
2	The Netherlands
3	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)
4	Japan
5	Australia
6	Italy
7	South Korea
8	Philippines

Trivia

This tournament marks the official opening of Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium
Asia's big three teams are all short-handed as 2006 Taiwan Series champions La New Bears, Japan Series champions Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, and South Korea champions Samsung Lions are all participating in the 2006 Konami Cup Asia Series in Tokyo, Japan, which started on the same day.

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External links

Official website (Traditional Chinese)
"Schedule" (PDF). (77.3 KiB)

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