2013 World Baseball Classic Pool 1

Baseball tournament results 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 NED 6 AW CUB 2 AR JPN 4 BW TPE 3 L1 CUB 14 L2 TPE 0 W1 NED 4 W2 JPN 16 W3 CUB 6 L4 NED 7 W4 JPN 10 W5 NED 6 Pool 1 MVP: JPN Hirokazu Ibatahttp://extrainningsbaseball.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/netherlands-japan/ Extra Innings March 12, 2013 Gabriel Fidler Abe's Two-Homer Inning Propels Japan in Win Results All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00). Netherlands 6, Cuba 2 March 8 12:00 Tokyo Dome NED NED 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 6 14 0 CUB CUB 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 12 2 Diego Markwell (2−0) Ismel Jimenez (1−1) Curt Smith (1), Jonathan Schoop (1) Alfredo Despaigne (1), Yulieski Gourriel (1) 38,588 (91.9%) HP − Alfonso Márquez, 1B − Gerry Davis, 2B − Trevor Grieve, 3B − Carlos Rey http://mlb.mlb.com/wbc/2013/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_03_08_nedint_cubint_1&mode=box Japan 4, Chinese Taipei 3 March 8 19:00 Tokyo Dome JPN JPN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 13 0 TPE TPE 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 3 11 0 Kazuhisa Makita (1−0) Hung-wen Chen (0−1) Toshiya Sugiuchi (1) 43,527 (103.6%) HP − Chris Guccione, 1B − Trevor Grieve, 2B − Gerry Davis, 3B − Felix Tejada http://mlb.mlb.com/wbc/2013/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_03_08_jpnint_tpeint_1&mode=box Cuba 14, Chinese Taipei 0 March 9 19:00 Tokyo Dome TPE TPE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0 4 1 CUB CUB 2 0 0 4 0 8 X X X 14 12 0 Danny Betancourt (2−0) Ching-lung Lo (0−1) Frederich Cepeda (1), Yasmany Tomás (1), José Abreu (1),Alfredo Despaigne (2) 12,884 (30.7%) HP − Gerry Davis, 1B − Carlos Rey, 2B − Chris Guccione, 3B − Felix Tejada Completed early due to 10–run mercy rule after 7 innings. http://mlb.mlb.com/wbc/2013/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_03_09_tpeint_cubint_1&mode=box Japan 16, Netherlands 4 March 10 19:00 Tokyo Dome JPN JPN 1 5 1 3 1 1 4 X X 16 17 0 NED NED 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 X X 4 6 3 Kenta Maeda (2−0) Rob Cordemans (1−1) Takashi Toritani (1), Nobuhiro Matsuda (1), Seiichi Uchikawa (1),Atsunori Inaba (1), Yoshio Itoi (1), Hayato Sakamoto (1) 37,745 (89.9%) HP − Alfonso Márquez, 1B − Chris Guccione, 2B − Felix Tejada, 3B − Trevor Grieve Completed early due to 10–run mercy rule after 7 innings. http://mlb.mlb.com/wbc/2013/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_03_10_jpnint_nedint_1&mode=box Netherlands 7, Cuba 6 March 11 19:00 Tokyo Dome CUB CUB 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 6 12 2 NED NED 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 1 7 12 0 Loek van Mil (1−0) Yander Guevara (0−1) José Abreu (2) Andrelton Simmons (1) 7,613 (18.1%) HP − Chris Guccione, 1B − Alfonso Márquez, 2B − Carlos Rey, 3B − Trevor Grieve Two outs when winning run scored. http://mlb.mlb.com/wbc/2013/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_03_11_cubint_nedint_1&mode=box Japan 10, Netherlands 6 March 12 19:00 Tokyo Dome NED NED 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 6 10 0 JPN JPN 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 2 X 10 9 0 Kenji Otonari (1−1) David Bergman (0−1) Andrelton Simmons (2) Shinnosuke Abe 2 (2) 30,301 (72.1%) HP − Gerry Davis, 1B − Alfonso Márquez, 2B − Carlos Rey, 3B − Felix Tejada http://mlb.mlb.com/wbc/2013/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_03_12_nedint_jpnint_1&mode=box References External links Official website Pool 1 World Baseball Classic Pool 1 World Baseball Classic Pool 1 Category:International baseball competitions hosted by Japan World Baseball Classic Pool 1 Category:Sports competitions in Tokyo