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2006 World Baseball Classic – Championship

2006 World Baseball Classic – Championship

The Championship Round of the 2006 World Baseball Classic was held at Petco Park, San Diego, California, United States from March 18 to 20, 2006.

Championship round was a single-elimination tournament. In the final, the team with the higher winning percentage of games in the tournament were to be the home team. If the teams competing in the final had identical winning percentages in the tournament, then World Baseball Classic, Inc. (WBCI) would conduct a coin flip or draw to determine the home team.

SemifinalsFinal
2R**Cuba**3
2WDominican Republic1
SF1WCuba6
SF2W**Japan**10
1R**Japan**6
1WSouth Korea0

Results

Championship
**CUB 3**
DOM 1
linescore
**JPN 6**
KOR 0
linescore
**JPN 10**
CUB 6
linescore

Semifinal 1 – Cuba 3, Dominican Republic 1

March 18 12:00 at Petco Park
Team123456789RHE
**Cuba**0000003003123
Dominican Republic000001000181
WP: Pedro Luis Lazo (1–0)   LP: Odalis Pérez (2–1)
Attendance: 41,268 (97.2%)
Umpires: HP − Bob Davidson, 1B − Tom Hallion, 2B − Chris Guccione, 3B − Neil Poulton,
LF − Carlos Rey, RF − Ed Hickox
Boxscore [3]

Semifinal 2 – Japan 6, South Korea 0

March 18 19:00 at Petco Park
Team123456789RHE
**Japan**0000005106110
South Korea000000000040
WP: Koji Uehara (2–0)   LP: Byung-doo Jun (0–1)
Home runs:
JPN: Kosuke Fukudome (1), Hitoshi Tamura (1)
KOR: None
Attendance: 42,639 (100.5%)
Umpires: HP − Ed Hickox, 1B − Chris Guccione, 2B − Bob Davidson, 3B − Carlos Rey,
LF − Tom Hallion, RF − Neil Poulton
Boxscore [4]

Final – Japan 10, Cuba 6

March 20 18:00 at Petco Park
Team123456789RHE
**Japan**40002000410103
Cuba1000020216111
WP: Daisuke Matsuzaka (3–0)   LP: Ormari Romero (2–1)   Sv: Akinori Otsuka (1)
Home runs:
JPN: None
CUB: Eduardo Paret (1), Frederich Cepeda (1)
Attendance: 42,696 (100.6%)
Umpires: HP − Tom Hallion, 1B − Bob Davidson, 2B − Ed Hickox, 3B − Carlos Rey,
LF − Neil Poulton, RF − Chris Guccione
Boxscore [5]

References

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Citation Linkwww.worldbaseballclassic.comOfficial website
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Citation Linkmlb.mlb.comBoxscore
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