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The first World Baseball Classic featured 16 teams in a round-robin.Each team played the other three teams in their pool once. Teams were ranked by winning percentage in the first round, with the top two teams in each pool advancing to the second round, where the teams from Pools A and B (in Pool 1) and the teams from Pools C and D (in Pool 2) competed against each other in another round-robin.
Although this was the first iteration of the World Baseball Classic, both Cuba and Japan were favorites to win the championship, as they were the only countries to have appeared in the top four at every iteration in the Summer Olympics up to this final. Japan won by 4 runs to claim the first championship of the World Baseball Classic.
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The Japan national baseball team (野球日本代表, Yakyū Nippon Daihyō or Yakyū Nihon Daihyō), also known as Samurai Japan (侍ジャパン), is the national team representing Japan in international baseball competitions. It won the World Baseball Classic in 2006, 2009, and 2023 as well as WBSC Premier12 in 2019.
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The United States was the victor of the previous edition of the WBC, in 2017 defeating Japan in the semi-final round. [7] Japan won the 2006 and 2009 editions of the WBC. [8] In 2023, Japan won all four games in Pool B, which it hosted at the Tokyo Dome. [9] They then defeated Italy in the quarterfinals. [10]