Baseball / World Baseball Classic

Béisbol / Clásico Mundial de Béisbol

For the first time ever, the best players in the world contest in a nation-based tournament. Though the Major League Baseball contributed with all the 30 members of some teams, only two of these MLB players competed in the final of the first edition, while the United States did not even reach the semifinals.

Por primera vez, los mejores jugadores del mundo disputan un título por naciones. Paradójicamente, en la final de la primera edición sólo dos de los jugadores eran de las Ligas Mayores Americanas (MLB), mientras que aportaban la totalidad de los treinta integrantes de otros equipos. Los Estados Unidos, sin embargo, ni siquiera se clasificaron para las semifinales.

I World Baseball Classic
5/20.Mar.2006 Final Round at San Diego, USA

Japan

Cuba

Ryoji Aikawa, Norichika Aoki, Takahiro Arai, Kyuji Fujikawa, Soichi Fujita, Kosuke Fukudome, Toshiaki Imae, Akinori Iwamura, Munenori Kawasaki, Tatsuhiko Kinjoh, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Kubota, Takahiro Mahara, Nobuhiko Matsunaka, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Shinya Miyamoto, Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Michihiro Ogasawara, Akinori Otsuka, Tomoya Satozaki, Naoyuki Shimizu, Toshiya Sugiuchi, Ichiro Suzuki, Hitoshi Tamura, Motonobu Tanishige, Koji Uehara, Kazuhiro Wada, Tsuyoshi Wada, Shunsuke Watanabe, Yasuhiko Yabuta.

Leslie Anderson, Ariel Borrero, Luis Borroto, Frederich Cepeda, Michel Enríquez, Maikel Folch, Yoandy Garlobo, Yulieski González, Yulieski Gourriel, Pedro Luis Lazo, Roger Machado, Yadel Martí, Jonder Martínez, Yunieski Maya, Juan Carlos Moreno, Vicyohandry Odelín, Adiel Palma, Eduardo Paret, Joan Carlos Pedroso, Yadiel Pedroso, Yosvany Pérez, Ariel Pestano, Alexei Ramírez, Rudy Reyes, Ormari Romero, Erier Sánchez, Dennis Suárez, Carlos Tabares, Osmany Urrutia.

Semifinals (18.Mar.06) Cuba 3-1 Dominican Republic // Japan 6-0 Korea

Final (20.Mar) Japan 10-6 Cuba

II World Baseball Classic
5/23.Mar.2009 Final Round at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, USA

Japan

South Korea

Shinnosuke Abe, Norichika Aoki, Yu Darvish, Kyuji Fujikawa, Kosuke Fukudome, Atsunori Inaba, Yoshiyuki Ishihara, Hisashi Iwakuma, Akinori Iwamura, Minoru Iwata, Kenji Johjima, Yoshiyuki Kamei, Yasuyuki Kataoka, Munenori Kawasaki, Satoshi Komatsu, Takahiro Mahara, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Shuichi Murata, Hiroyuki Nakajima, Michihiro Ogasawara, Toshiya Sugiuchi, Ichiro Suzuki, Masahiro Tanaka, Seiichi Uchikawa, Tetsuya Utsumi, Hideaki Wakui, Shunsuke Watanabe, Tetsuya Yamaguchi.

Jung Keun Bong, Jeong Choi, Taehyon Chong, Shin-Soo Choo, Tae Hoon Im, Wonsam Jang, Keun-Woo Jeong, Hyun Wook Jong, Min-ho Kang, Hyun-Soo Kim, Kwang-Hyun Kim, Tae Kyun Kim, Young Min Ko, Bum Ho Lee, Dae Ho Lee, Jae Woo Lee, Jin Young Lee, Jong Wook Lee, Seung Ho Lee, Taek-Keun Lee, Yong-Kyu Lee, Chang Yong Lim, Seung Hwan Oh, Ki Hyuk Park, Kyung Oan Park, Hyunjin Ryu, Min Han Son, Suk-Min Yoon.

Semifinals (21/22.Mar.09) Korea 10-2 Venezuela // Japan 9-4 United States

Final (23.Mar) Japan 5-3 (10th inning) Korea

Estadísticas / Statistics
Títulos / Finales /// Titles/Finals

Ps.	Country	T/F	Editions
1.	Japan	2/2	06 09
2.	Cuba	0/1	06
.	Korea	0/1	09

3	Total		2

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