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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.
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]
The 28-year-old phenom pitched a scoreless ninth inning to cap Japan’s 3-2 win over the United States and secure Japan’s third World Baseball Classic title and first since winning the first ...
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