2009 World Baseball Classic Pool A

Pool A of the first round of the 2009 World Baseball Classic was held at Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan from March 5 to 9, 2009. Pool A 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 Pool 1. Bracket Preliminaries Qualifiers Seeding – CHN 0 – JPN 4 – TPE 0 – KOR 1997 9 L1 CHN 4 L2 TPE 1 W1 JPN 14 W2 KOR 1997 2 W3 CHN 0 L4 KOR 1997 14 W4 JPN 0 W5 KOR 1997 1 Results All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00). Japan 4, China 0 March 5 18:30 Tokyo Dome CHN CHN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 JPN JPN 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 X 4 5 0 Yu Darvish (1−0) Chenhao Li (0−1) Shuichi Murata (1) 43,428 (103.4%) HP − Ed Hickox, 1B − Jorge Pérez, 2B − Dana DeMuth, 3B − Daniel Toledo http://mlb.mlb.com/wbc/2013/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_03_05_chnint_jpnint_1&mode=box South Korea 9, Chinese Taipei 0 March 6 18:30 Tokyo Dome TPE TPE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 KOR 1997 KOR 6 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 X 9 10 0 Hyun-jin Ryu (1−0) C. C. Lee (0−1) Jin-young Lee (1), Keun-woo Jeong (1) 12,704 (30.2%) HP − Andy Fletcher, 1B − Daniel Toledo, 2B − Ed Hickox, 3B − Paul Hyham http://mlb.mlb.com/wbc/2013/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_03_06_tpeint_korint_1&mode=box China 4, Chinese Taipei 1 March 7 12:30 Tokyo Dome TPE TPE 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 7 0 CHN CHN 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 X 4 9 0 Jiangang Lü (1−0) Yueh-ping Lin (0−1) Kun Chen (1) Ray Chang (1) 12,890 (30.7%) HP − Dana DeMuth, 1B − Paul Hyham, 2B − Andy Fletcher, 3B − Jorge Pérez http://mlb.mlb.com/wbc/2013/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_03_07_tpeint_chnint_1&mode=box Japan 14, South Korea 2 March 7 19:00 Tokyo Dome JPN JPN 3 5 0 1 2 2 1 X X 14 14 0 KOR 1997 KOR 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 X X 2 4 1 Daisuke Matsuzaka (1−0) Kwang-hyun Kim (0−1) Shuichi Murata (2), Kenji Johjima (1) Tae-kyun Kim (1) 45,640 (108.7%) HP − Ed Hickox, 1B − Jorge Pérez, 2B − Andy Fletcher, 3B − Daniel Toledo Completed early due to 10–run mercy rule after 7 innings. http://mlb.mlb.com/wbc/2013/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_03_07_jpnint_korint_1&mode=box South Korea 14, China 0 March 8 18:30 Tokyo Dome CHN CHN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0 2 2 KOR 1997 KOR 2 0 0 2 5 5 X X X 14 10 0 Suk-min Yoon (1−0) Guoqiang Sun (0−1) Bum-ho Lee (1) 12,571 (29.9%) HP − Andy Fletcher, 1B − Daniel Toledo, 2B − Dana DeMuth, 3B − Paul Hyham Completed early due to 10–run mercy rule after 7 innings. http://mlb.mlb.com/wbc/2013/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_03_08_chnint_korint_1&mode=box South Korea 1, Japan 0 March 9 18:30 Tokyo Dome KOR 1997 KOR 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 JPN JPN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 Jung-keun Bong (1−0) Hisashi Iwakuma (0−1) Chang-yong Lim (1) 42,879 (102.1%) HP − Dana DeMuth, 1B − Paul Hyham, 2B − Ed Hickox, 3B − Jorge Pérez http://mlb.mlb.com/wbc/2013/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_03_09_korint_jpnint_1&mode=box External links Official website Pool A World Baseball Classic Pool A World Baseball Classic Pool A Category:International baseball competitions hosted by Japan World Baseball Classic Pool A Category:Sports competitions in Tokyo