2006 Intercontinental Cup (baseball)

This article is about the baseball tournament. For the cricket tournament, see 2006 ICC Intercontinental Cup.

The 2006 IBAF Intercontinental Cup was held in Taichung, Taiwan from November 9 through the 19th. Eight countries contested the tournament, which was played in two different venues. Those venues were Taichung Baseball Field and the newly built Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium. The eight participating countries were Cuba, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines in addition to the hosts from Chinese Taipei (Taiwan). The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation.

Ticket Sales

Tickets went on sale at noon on Friday, November 3 for the games of the first four days over the Internet. Over following days, tickets for the next day not yet offered will then become available. Internet sales of tickets will end at noon two days prior to the date the game is played. The Sunday, November 11 game between Taiwan and South Korea was the first game to sell out, having sold out within three hours of tickets being made available.

Round robin

The eight teams will play a round robin format in which they will each play the other teams once. This means that each team will play seven games in this first phase of the tournament over the course of eight days.

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First pitch in a competitive game at the stadium in a game between the Philippines and South Korea in the 2006 Intercontinental Cup

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A look in the Philippine dugout during the game against South Korea on November 9

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Japan v. Cuba

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A look inside the Korean dugout

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Taiwanese fans before a game.

Date	Time	Venue	Home		Guest		Result
11/9	10:00	TF	Cuba		The Netherlands		3-2
11/9	13:00	IBC	South Korea		The Philippines		10-0 (6½ innings)
11/9	14:00	TF	Australia		Japan		3-4 (10 innings)
11/9	19:30	IBC	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)		Italy		3-13
11/10	13:00	IBC	The Philippines		Australia		2-12 (8 innings)
11/10	13:00	TF	South Korea		Cuba		1-8
11/10	18:30	IBC	Japan		Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)		4-3
11/10	18:30	TF	The Netherlands		Italy		10-8
11/11	13:00	IBC	Italy		Cuba		0-9
11/11	13:00	TF	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)		Australia		4-2
11/11	18:30	TF	The Philippines		The Netherlands		0-22 (7 innings)
11/11	18:30	IBC	Japan		South Korea		2-1
11/12	13:00	IBC	South Korea		Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)		7-9 (12 innings)
11/12	13:00	TF	The Netherlands		Japan		0-3
11/12	18:30	TF	The Philippines		Cuba		0-24 (7 innings)
11/12	18:30	IBC	Australia		Italy		8-7 (13 innings)
11/13			Rest Day
11/14	13:00	IBC	Cuba		Japan		6-3
11/14	13:00	TF	Italy		The Philippines		9-0
11/14	18:30	IBC	Australia		South Korea		10-9
11/14	18:30	TF	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)		The Netherlands		2-4 (10 innings)
11/15	13:00	TF	Italy		Japan		3-6
11/15	13:00	IBC	South Korea		The Netherlands		2-13 (8 innings)
11/15	18:30	IBC	Cuba		Australia		13-0 (4½ innings)1
11/15	18:30	TF	The Philippines		Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)		0-14 (6 innings)1
11/16	13:00	IBC	Italy		South Korea		1-5
11/16	13:00	TF	Japan		The Philippines		17-0 (6½ innings)
11/16	18:30	TF	The Netherlands		Australia		4-3 (11 innings) 2
11/16	18:30	IBC	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)		Cuba		4-3

¹ Game called due to bad weather condition.
² Dutch manager ejected in the top of the eleventh for obscenities in argument with an umpire.

• TF = Taichung Baseball Field
• IBC = Intercontinental Baseball Stadium

Table

Rank	Country		W	L	Pct.	RS	RA	DI	RA/9DI
1	Cuba		6	1	.857	66	10	56	1.61
2	Japan		6	1	.857	39	16	60	2.40
3	The Netherlands		5	2	.714	55	21	51	3.05
4	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)		4	3	.571	39	33	64	4.64
5	Australia		3	4	.429	38	43	62.3	6.21
6	South Korea		2	5	.286	35	43	62	6.24
7	Italy		2	5	.286	41	41	64	5.77
8	The Philippines		0	7	.000	2	108	48	20.25

DI=Innings played on defense

RA/9DI=Runs allowed for every nine defensive innings played

• Tiebreaker
  • head-to-head
  • RA/9DI
• Notes
  • Cuba wins tiebreaker over Japan based on head-to-head result
  • South Korea wins tiebreaker over Italy based on head-to-head result

Classification Round

The teams that finish in fifth through eighth place in the round robin will face off in the consolation round. All consolation round matches will be played at Taichung Baseball Field.

	5-8th place				5th place
	November 18 (13:00)
	Italy	8
	South Korea	3
					November 19 (15:00)
					Italy	2
					Australia	3
					7th place
	November 18 (18:30)			November 19 (10:00)
	Philippines	0		South Korea	5
	Australia	17			Philippines	1

Medal Round

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Taiwanese players thank the home fans after the loss to Cuba

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Cuba receives the gold medal between the silver and bronze medalists

The top four teams from the round robin will enter the medal round of the competition. All medal round games will be played at the Intercontinental Baseball Stadium.

	Semi-finals				Final
	November 18 (13:00)
	The Netherlands	3
	Japan	0
					November 19 (18:30)
					The Netherlands	3
					Cuba	6
					Third place
	November 18 (18:30)			November 19 (13:00)
	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	4		Japan	0
	Cuba	5			Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	4

Final line score

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	R	H	E
Cuba	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	6	7	0
The Netherlands	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	9	5

Final standings

Rank	Country
1	Cuba
2	The Netherlands
3	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)
4	Japan
5	Australia
6	Italy
7	South Korea
8	Philippines

Trivia

• This tournament marks the official opening of Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium
• Asia's big three teams are all short-handed as 2006 Taiwan Series champions La New Bears, Japan Series champions Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, and South Korea champions Samsung Lions are all participating in the 2006 Konami Cup Asia Series in Tokyo, Japan, which started on the same day.

See also

• Intercontinental Cup (baseball)

External links

• Official website (Traditional Chinese)
• Schedule PDF (77.3 KiB)