2007 World Port Tournament

September 2026 The 2007 World Port Tournament was an international baseball competition held at the Neptunus Familiestadion in Rotterdam, the Netherlands from August 2–12, 2007. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and featured teams from Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States. Cuba won the tournament with a 2–0 victory over the Chinese Taipei in the championship game. Yosvani Pérez was named the tournament's most valuable player. Group stage Standings Qualified for the final Did not qualify for the final TeamGamesWinsLossesRuns scoredRuns allowedCUB Cuba8805016TPE Chinese Taipei 118442424USA United States 18444026NED Netherlands 18441936JPN Japan8081344 1 1 Chinese Taipei is the official IBAF designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan. (See also political status of Taiwan for details.) 2 2 Final placement for 2nd through 4th in group play is based on the results of the individual games between Chinese Taipei, the United States and the Netherlands (games 4, 6, 8, 14, 16 and 17). Game results yes no yes Game 1: August 2, 2007 14:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands TPE TPE 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 CUB CUB 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 x 2 5 1 Vladimir Baños (1-0) Kai-Wen Cheng (0-1) Arley Sánchez (1) Donald Duarte (1) yes no yes Game 3: August 3, 2007 14:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands CUB CUB 0 2 5 3 0 0 1 0 0 11 14 0 JPN JPN 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 0 Alberto Bicet Syota Kawarai (0-1) José Julio Ruiz 2 (2), Yosvani Pérez (1) yes no yes Game 5: August 4, 2007 14:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands TPE TPE 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 6 0 JPN JPN 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 Ching-Ming Wang (1-0) Kenji Kobayashi (0-1) Chu-Kuan Lee (1) Chih-Yaho Chan (1), Yi-Chuan Lin (1) yes no yes Game 7: August 5, 2007 13:30 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands CUB CUB 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 5 14 2 NED NED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 6 1 Yadel Martí (1-0) Rob Cordemans (0-1) Vicyohandri Odelín (1) Alfredo Despaigne (1) yes no yes Game 9: August 6, 2007 14:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands USA USA 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 6 1 CUB CUB 1 0 0 1 0 1 5 0 X 8 11 0 Yulieski González (1-0) Scott Gorgen (0-1) Pedro Álvarez (3) Alfredo Despaigne 2 (3) yes no yes Game 11: August 7, 2007 14:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands CUB CUB 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 6 20 2 TPE TPE 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 12 4 Arley Sánchez (1-0) Chia-Chun Tang (0-1) Vladimir Pérez (1) Yosvani Pérez (2) Chun-Tai Wang (1) yes no yes Game 13: August 8, 2007 14:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands JPN JPN 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 2 CUB CUB 0 2 1 1 0 0 4 0 X 8 13 0 Alberto Bicet (1-0) Tomoyuki Kaida (0-1) José Julio Ruiz (3) yes no yes Game 15: August 9, 2007 15:15 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands JPN JPN 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 6 1 TPE TPE 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 X 4 10 0 Ko-Chien Lin (1-0) Kyohei Tsuchimoto (0-1) Yi-Chuan Lin (1) yes no yes Game 17: August 10, 2007 14:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands USA USA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 TPE TPE 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 1 6 1 Wei-Hua Lee (1-0) Tyson Ross (1-1) yes no yes Game 19: August 11, 2007 14:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands CUB CUB 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 5 10 1 USA USA 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 7 1 Arley Sánchez (2-0) Mike Minor (0-1) Hector Olivera (1), Yosvani Pérez (3), José Julio Ruiz (4) 1em yes no yes Game 2: August 2, 2007 19:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands USA USA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 JPN JPN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Brett Hunter (1-0) Yusuke Iwamoto (0-1) yes no yes Game 4: August 3, 2007 19:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands NED NED 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 5 0 TPE TPE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 Leon Boyd (1-0) Wei-Hua Lee (0-1) Michiel van Kampen (1) Harvey Monte (1) yes no yes Game 6: August 4, 2007 19:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands (F/8: Mercy Rule) USA USA 2 1 0 0 3 0 3 2 11 16 1 NED NED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 Tyson Ross (1-0) Diegomar Markwell (0-1) Pedro Álvarez (1) yes no yes Game 8: August 5, 2007 19:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands TPE TPE 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 3 10 11 1 USA USA 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 8 2 Chia-Chun Tang (1-0) Seth Frankoff (0-1) Ming-Chieh Hsu (1) Pedro Álvarez (2) yes no yes Game 10: August 6, 2007 19:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands NED NED 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 9 0 JPN JPN 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 5 2 David Bergman (1-0) Ken Togame (0-1) Michiel van Kampen (2) Masumi Okayama (1) yes no yes Game 12: August 7, 2007 19:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands JPN JPN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 USA USA 2 0 0 1 0 7 X 10 13 1 Eric Surkamp (1-0) Robert Booth (0-1) Roger Kieschnick (1) yes no yes Game 14: August 8, 2007 19:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands TPE TPE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 NED NED 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 X 4 6 1 Leon Boyd (2-0) Ching-Ming Wang (1-1) yes no yes Game 16: August 9, 2007 19:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands NED NED 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 1 USA USA 3 1 0 3 0 2 0 1 X 10 12 0 Ryan Berry (1-0) Diegomar Markwell (0-2) Jordan Danks (1) yes no yes Game 18: August 10, 2007 19:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands NED NED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 5 CUB CUB 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 X 5 9 1 Ciro Licea (1-0) Rob Cordemans (0-1) Sidney de Jong (1) yes no yes Game 20: August 11, 2007 19:00 UTC+1 Rotterdam, Netherlands JPN JPN 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 1 NED NED 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 1 Duko Jansen (1-0) Kyohei Tsuchimoto (0-2) Sidney de Jong (2) Championship game yes no yes Game 1: August 12, 2007 13:30 UTC+1 TPE TPE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 CUB CUB 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 x 2 6 0 Yadel Martí Chu-Kuan Lee Yulieski González None None Tournament awards and statistics Best Hitter CUB Alfredo Despaigne Best Pitcher NED Leon Boyd Most Valuable Player CUB Yosvani Pérez Most Popular Player JPN Ryoji Nakata Home Run King CUB José Julio Ruiz Rookie Award USA Jordan Danks Press Award NED Leon Boyd References External links Official website World Port Tournament Category:World Port Tournament Category:2007 in Dutch sport