Pool E of the Second Round of the
2017 World Baseball Classic
The 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball competition, composed of 16 competing nations, held from March 6 to March 22, 2017. It was the fourth iteration of the World Baseball Classic. The first-round hosts ...
, a quarter-final round in the tournament, was held at
Tokyo Dome,
Tokyo, Japan, from March 12 to 15, 2017.
The round was between
Team Israel (won Pool A; ranked 41st in the world),
Team Japan (won Pool B; ranked 1st in the world),
Team Cuba (second in Pool B; ranked 5th in the world), and
the Netherlands (second in Pool A; ranked 9th in the world). Pool E was a
round-robin tournament
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. Each team played the other three teams once, with the top two teams advancing to the semifinals.
Undefeated Japan (3−0) and the Netherlands (2−1) advanced to the semi-final round, as Israel (1−2) came in third in the pool, and Cuba (0−3) came in fourth.
Standings
Pool E
MVP:
Wladimir Balentien
Results
*All times are
Japan Standard Time (
UTC+09:00).
Israel 4, Cuba 1
In the first game of the second round,
Team Israel, undefeated in the first round, beat
Team Cuba (5th-ranked in the world) by a score of 4−1. Former Major Leaguer
Jason Marquis (in 5.2 innings on three days' rest) and three Team Israel relief pitchers (including
Brad Goldberg
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In high school, Goldberg was a 2008 preseason '' Baseball America'' All-Am ...
and
Josh Zeid, who both threw 96
mph fastballs) kept Team Cuba to five hits and one run, a homer by Cuban star
Alfredo Despaigne who became the all-time World Baseball Classic home run leader.
Pool A MVP catcher
Ryan Lavarnway had two hits for Israel.
Japan 8, Netherlands 6
Japan, undefeated in the first round, beat the Netherlands 8−6 in 11 innings. The game lasted nearly five hours, and ended at 11:56 p.m. in Japan.
The stadium scoreboard reminded fans younger than 18 to leave the stadium before midnight to comply with a juvenile safety law, and many fans left.
Netherlands 12, Israel 2
In a rematch of the Pool A game in which Israel prevailed, the Netherlands defeated Israel 12–2 on March 13, giving Israel their first loss of the tournament. The game ended after eight innings with the application of the 10-run
mercy rule.
Japan 8, Cuba 5
Japan beat Cuba 8−5, backed by two home runs from designated hitter
Tetsuto Yamada
is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Yamada made his NPB debut in 2012 with Yakult. He has won the Central League MVP award, has received the Best Nine Award six times, ...
.
Netherlands 14, Cuba 1
The Netherlands defeated Cuba 14−1, eliminating Cuba from contention to advance to the semi-final round, in a game ended after seven innings under the World Baseball Classic's mercy rule.
Japan 8, Israel 3
Undefeated two-time WBC champion Team Japan beat Team Israel, 8−3.
["Team Israel's World Baseball Classic run ends in loss to Japan,"]
''USA Today''.">"Israel falls to Japan, ending miracle run at baseball tournament,"
''The Times of Israel''.
References
External links
Official website
{{2017 World Baseball Classic
Pool E
World Baseball Classic Pool E
International baseball competitions hosted by Japan
World Baseball Classic Pool E
Sports competitions in Tokyo