2009 Baseball World Cup

Tournament details
Countries	Croatia  Czech Republic  Germany  Italy  Netherlands  San Marino  Spain  Sweden
Dates	9–27 September
Teams	22
Defending champions	United States
Final positions
Champions	United States(4th title)
Runners-up	Cuba
Third place	Canada
Fourth place	Puerto Rico
Tournament statistics
Games played	92
Attendance	126,799 (1,378 per game)
Awards
MVP	Justin Smoak
← 2007 2011 → All statistics correct as of 27 September 2009.

The2009Baseball World Cup (BWC) was the 38th international men'samateurbaseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by theInternational Baseball Federation, which titled it the Amateur World Series from the1938 tournament through the1986 AWS. The 2009 tournament was held, for the first time, across a continent — with games played in 27 cities across eightEuropean countries, from September 9 to 27. The final was a repeat ofthe previous BWC final, with theUnited States again defeatingCuba, winning its fourth title.Canada won the bronze medal, the nation's first medal in the tournament, after defeatingPuerto Rico 6–2.^[1]

There were 22 participating countries (which stands as the most ever in tournament history), with 20 teams split into five groups for the first round, after which "official" hostItaly and2007 European ChampionNetherlands joined the advancing 14 teams in the second round.

The next competition would be the last amateur championship held as the BWC tournament, which was replacedin 2015 by the quadrennialWBSC Premier12.

Previous editions of theWorld Cup were held with no more than 18 teams. These teams were initially broken up into two pools, with the top teams from each pool qualifying for the final knockout stage. With 22 teams competing in the 2009 tournament, the format has been expanded into three phases. Teams that play from the first round and finish among the top eight teams of the tournament will now have played as many as 15 games, making it one of the longest campaigns for any international baseball tournament.

All of the teams, with the exception of Italy and Netherlands, will compete in the first round (as hosts for the second-round games, Italy and Netherlands receive a bye through the first round). The teams will be broken into five pools of four teams each. Each pool will be held in a different country, with the hosts Czech Republic, Spain, Sweden, Croatia and Germany assigned to the corresponding pools. (Previously, Russia had been set as the host nation for Pool D, however they were replaced by Croatia in an announcement from the IBAF.)^[2] Unlike the2009 World Baseball Classic, the pools will be conducted in singleround-robin format.^[3] The top two teams from each pool will automatically qualify for the second round, while four of the five third-place finishers will also qualify aswild cards.^[4] In some respects, the first round is like a final qualifying tournament, similar to the format used for the2008 Beijing Olympics.

The second round operates similarly to the first, but on an expanded scale. The field of teams is split into two pools, one hosted in Italy, the other in the Netherlands. The fourteen qualifiers from the first round are assigned to the pools, and commence a single round-robin competition.^[4] The top four teams from each pool then qualify for the third and final round.^[5]

The third round is broken into two parts: a partial round-robin and then four classification games, including the final. Each team will play four games during the round-robin phase, against the teams they have not yet faced (in Round 2) who also qualified – i.e. the teams from the Italian pool will face the teams from the Netherlands pool, but not each other. The teams are then ranked on their results in this phase and in games of the 2nd round between qualified teams, but in two groups based on the pool they qualified from. Each team then plays a classification game against their counterpart from the opposite group to determine their final placings in the tournament – i.e. the fourth place Italian qualifier faces the fourth place Netherlands qualifier to determine seventh and eighth positions, the third place qualifiers compete for fifth and sixth positions, and so on. The winner of the final classification game will be declared the winner of the World Cup for 2009.^[5]

The IBAF employs a standardtiebreaking system across all tournaments it sanctions, though it will use a modified version for this World Cup. Ordinarily there are five criteria available to be used when two or more teams finish the tournament (or a section thereof) with the samewinning percentage; if the first method does not split the teams involved, the next one is used, continuing down the list of methods until a distinction is achieved. The criteria used to determine the higher placed finishing team, in order, are:

1. the team with the better head-to-head record for the teams involved
2. the team with the better ratio ofruns allowed per fielding inning subtracted from the ratio of runs scored per batting inning, referred to as the "Team Quality Balance", from the games involving the tied teams
3. the team with the better "Earned Run Team Quality Balance" – the same as No. 2 but using onlyearned runs as opposed to all runs
4. the team with the highestbatting average from the head-to-head games
5. a coin flip.

For this World Cup though, a simplified method of tiebreaking will be used:

1. the team with the better head-to-head record for the teams involved
2. the team with the fewest runs allowed
3. the team with the lowestearned run average
4. the team with the highest batting average.

In the case of determining the four wild card teams that will progress from the first to the second round, the first measure will automatically be skipped, as it will be impossible for the teams to have played against each other.^[6]

Twenty-two teams qualified for the tournament, either through finishing high enough in the2007 World Cup, placing high enough in regional tournaments that doubled as qualifying tournaments for the event, or by automatic qualification by hosting some part of the tournament.

Round 1
Pool A		Pool B		Pool C		Pool D		Pool E
Australia	6th,2007 World Cup	Cuba	2007 World Cup	Canada	Qualified,2008 Olympics	Croatia	ReplacingRussia, Host nation	China	Qualified,2008 Olympics
Chinese Taipei	Qualified,2008 Olympics	Puerto Rico	2008 Americas Baseball Cup	Netherlands Antilles	4th,2008 Americas Baseball Cup	Great Britain	2007 European Championship	Germany	4th,2007 European Championship
Czech Republic	Host nation	South Africa	African qualifier	South Korea	5th,2007 World Cup	Japan	2007 World Cup	United States	2007 World Cup
Mexico	2008 Americas Baseball Cup	Spain	2007 European Championship	Sweden	Host nation	Nicaragua	2008 Americas Baseball Cup	Venezuela	5th,2008 Americas Baseball Cup
Round 2
Pool F					Pool G
Netherlands		2007 European Championship			Italy		Host nation

Team	W	L	R	RA	PCT
Mexico	3	0	27	9	1.000
Australia	2	1	33	19	.667
Chinese Taipei	1	2	15	16	.333
Czech Republic	0	3	5	36	.000

9 September 2009	Czech Republic	4–17	Australia	Prague, Czech Republic Attendance: 800
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10 September 2009	Chinese Taipei	0–8	Mexico	Prague, Czech Republic Attendance: 700
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11 September 2009	Australia	7–5	Chinese Taipei	Prague, Czech Republic Attendance: 1,000
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11 September 2009	Mexico	9–0	Czech Republic	Prague, Czech Republic Attendance: 1,200
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12 September 2009	Australia	9–10	Mexico	Prague, Czech Republic Attendance: 2,500
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12 September 2009	Czech Republic	1–10	Chinese Taipei	Prague, Czech Republic Attendance: 2,500
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Team	W	L	R	RA	PCT
Cuba	3	0	25	9	1.000
Puerto Rico	2	1	17	13	.667
Spain	1	2	22	10	.333
South Africa	0	3	5	37	.000

9 September 2009	Spain	15 – 0(F/6)	South Africa	Barcelona, Spain Attendance: 350
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10 September 2009	Puerto Rico	0 – 10(F/7)	Cuba	Barcelona, Spain Attendance: 1,500
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11 September 2009	Cuba	10–5	South Africa	Barcelona, Spain Attendance: 500
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11 September 2009	Spain	3–5	Puerto Rico	Barcelona, Spain Attendance: 1,500
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12 September 2009	Cuba	5–4	Spain	Barcelona, Spain Attendance: 1,500
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12 September 2009	South Africa	0 – 12(F/7)	Puerto Rico	Barcelona, Spain Attendance: 150
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Team	W	L	R	RA	PCT
Canada	3	0	43	2	1.000
Netherlands Antilles	2	1	19	28	.667
South Korea	1	2	11	19	.333
Sweden	0	3	10	34	.000

9 September 2009	Sweden	8–10	Netherlands Antilles	Sundbyberg, Sweden Attendance: 1,223
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10 September 2009	Canada	9–1	South Korea	Sundbyberg, Sweden Attendance: 662
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11 September 2009	South Korea	5–1	Sweden	Sundbyberg, Sweden Attendance: 1,307
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11 September 2009	Netherlands Antilles	0 – 15(F/7)	Canada	Sundbyberg, Sweden Attendance: 1,408
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12 September 2009	South Korea	5–9	Netherlands Antilles	Sundbyberg, Sweden Attendance: 1,722
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12 September 2009	Sweden	1 – 19(F/5)	Canada	Sundbyberg, Sweden Attendance: 2,091
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Team	W	L	R	RA	PCT
Nicaragua	3	0	28	5	1.000
Japan	2	1	26	18	.667
Great Britain	1	2	11	20	.333
Croatia	0	3	5	27	.000

10 September 2009	Great Britain	7–9	Japan	Zagreb, Croatia Attendance: 180
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10 September 2009	Croatia	1–10	Nicaragua	Zagreb, Croatia Attendance: 450
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11 September 2009	Nicaragua	10 – 0(F/7)	Great Britain	Zagreb, Croatia Attendance: 150
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11 September 2009	Japan	13 – 3(F/7)	Croatia	Zagreb, Croatia Attendance: 400
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12 September 2009	Japan	4–8	Nicaragua	Zagreb, Croatia Attendance: 380
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12 September 2009	Croatia	1–4	Great Britain	Zagreb, Croatia Attendance: 600
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Team	W	L	R	RA	PCT
Venezuela	3	0	42	12	1.000
United States	2	1	26	14	.667
Germany	1	2	16	22	.333
China	0	3	3	39	.000

9 September 2009	Germany	14 – 1(F/7)	China	Regensburg, Germany Attendance: 5,300
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10 September 2009	United States	9 – 13(F/11)	Venezuela	Regensburg, Germany Attendance: 4,200
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11 September 2009	Venezuela	17 – 2(F/5)	China	Regensburg, Germany Attendance: 6,100
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11 September 2009	United States	9–1	Germany	Regensburg, Germany Attendance: 9,600
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12 September 2009	China	0–8	United States	Regensburg, Germany Attendance: 5,900
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12 September 2009	Germany	1 – 12(F/8)	Venezuela	Regensburg, Germany Attendance: 6,900
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Team	Pool	W	L	R	RA	PCT
Spain	B	1	2	22	10	.333
Chinese Taipei	A	1	2	15	16	.333
South Korea	C	1	2	11	19	.333
Great Britain	D	1	2	11	20	.333
Germany	E	1	2	16	22	.333

Team	W	L	R	RA	PCT	1st Tiebreaker Head–to–head record	2nd Tiebreaker Head–to–head runs allowed	3rd Tiebreaker Head–to–head record[7]
Netherlands	6	1	44	23	.857	1–1	7	1–0
Puerto Rico	6	1	46	16	.857	1–1	7	0–1
Cuba	6	1	42	10	.857	1–1	8	—
Venezuela	3	4	26	37	.429	1–0	—	—
South Korea	3	4	30	24	.429	0–1	—	—
Nicaragua	2	5	24	48	.333	1–0	—	—
Spain	2	5	31	47	.286	0–1	—	—
Great Britain	0	7	12	50	.000	—	—	—

13 September 2009	Netherlands	4–2	South Korea	Amsterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 3,500
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13 September 2009	Cuba	6–0	Great Britain	Haarlem, Netherlands Attendance: 327
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13 September 2009	Venezuela	7–4	Nicaragua	Rotterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 250
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13 September 2009	Puerto Rico	12 – 2(F/7)	Spain	Amsterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 211
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14 September 2009	South Korea	15 – 5(F/8)	Great Britain	Amsterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 91
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14 September 2009	Spain	8–1	Venezuela	Amsterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 61
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14 September 2009	Nicaragua	1–4	Cuba	Haarlem, Netherlands Attendance: 350
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14 September 2009	Netherlands	5–2	Puerto Rico	Rotterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 2,041
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16 September 2009	Puerto Rico	3–2	South Korea	Rotterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 251
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16 September 2009	Great Britain	1–4	Nicaragua	Rotterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 112
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16 September 2009	Spain	5–10	Netherlands	Haarlem, Netherlands Attendance: 2,500
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16 September 2009	Cuba	10 – 0(F/8)	Venezuela	Amsterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 479
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17 September 2009	Puerto Rico	3–2	Great Britain	Haarlem, Netherlands Attendance: 1,477
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17 September 2009	Netherlands	8–5	Venezuela	Haarlem, Netherlands Attendance: 3,117
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17 September 2009	Spain	0–10	Cuba	Amsterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 108
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17 September 2009	Nicaragua	2–7	South Korea	Rotterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 400
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18 September 2009	Spain	5–9	Nicaragua	Amsterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 300
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18 September 2009	Cuba	2–5	Puerto Rico	Amsterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 1,600
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18 September 2009	Venezuela	4–1	South Korea	Haarlem, Netherlands Attendance: 334
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18 September 2009	Great Britain	0–6	Netherlands	Rotterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 2,225
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19 September 2009	Great Britain	3–10	Spain	Rotterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 433
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19 September 2009	South Korea	1–5	Cuba	Rotterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 1,400
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19 September 2009	Venezuela	3–5	Puerto Rico	Haarlem, Netherlands Attendance: 1,116
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19 September 2009	Nicaragua	4–8	Netherlands	Amsterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 3,000
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20 September 2009	Nicaragua	0 – 16(F/7)	Puerto Rico	Haarlem, Netherlands Attendance: 406
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20 September 2009	Netherlands	3–5	Cuba	Rotterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 4,000
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20 September 2009	Venezuela	6–1	Great Britain	Haarlem, Netherlands Attendance: 800
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20 September 2009	South Korea	2–1	Spain	Amsterdam, Netherlands Attendance: 354
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Team	W	L	R	RA	PCT	1st Tiebreaker Head–to–head record	2nd Tiebreaker Head–to–head runs allowed	3rd Tiebreaker Head–to–head record[7]
United States	7	0	60	15	1.000	—	—	—
Australia	5	2	47	27	.714	1–1	8	1–0
Canada	5	2	50	29	.714	1–1	8	0–1
Chinese Taipei	5	2	32	29	.714	1–1	9	—
Japan	2	5	28	25	.286	1–1	9	—
Italy	2	5	32	54	.286	1–1	10	—
Mexico	2	5	28	38	.286	1–1	12	—
Netherlands Antilles	0	7	27	87	.000	—	—	—

13 September 2009	Australia	19 – 6(F/7)	Netherlands Antilles	Piacenza, Italy Attendance: 383
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13 September 2009	Italy	2–5	Chinese Taipei	Florence, Italy Attendance: 1,800
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13 September 2009	Japan	9–3	Mexico	Parma, Italy Attendance: 604
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13 September 2009	United States	8–0	Canada	Reggio Emilia, Italy Attendance: 300
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14 September 2009	Mexico	6–3	Italy	Bologna, Italy Attendance: 500
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14 September 2009	Canada	3 – 5(F/10)	Australia	Novara, Italy Attendance: 200
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14 September 2009	Netherlands Antilles	1 – 11(F/7)	United States	Verona, Italy Attendance: 850
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15 September 2009	Chinese Taipei	5 – 4(F/10)	Australia	Godo, Italy Attendance: 450
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15 September 2009	United States	4–2	Japan	Macerata, Italy Attendance: 1,900
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16 September 2009	Japan	1 – 3(F/10)	Chinese Taipei	Serravalle, Republic of San Marino Attendance: 120
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16 September 2009	Mexico	2–4	Canada	Turin, Italy Attendance: 400
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17 September 2009	Chinese Taipei	3 – 14(F/7)	United States	Turin, Italy Attendance: 1,000
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17 September 2009	Canada	3 – 2(F/10)	Japan	Bologna, Italy Attendance: 450
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17 September 2009	Australia	5–4	Italy	Parma, Italy Attendance: 1,522
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17 September 2009	Mexico	9–8	Netherlands Antilles	Serravalle, Republic of San Marino Attendance: 300
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18 September 2009	Netherlands Antilles	2 – 19(F/6)	Canada	Godo, Italy Attendance: 650
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18 September 2009	Italy	6–4	Japan	Novara, Italy Attendance: 1,000
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18 September 2009	Chinese Taipei	1 – 0(F/10)	Mexico	Verona, Italy Attendance: 600
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19 September 2009	Japan	0–5	Australia	Bologna, Italy Attendance: 400
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19 September 2009	Netherlands Antilles	3–12	Chinese Taipei	Novara, Italy Attendance: 350
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19 September 2009	Canada	16–7	Italy	Reggio Emilia, Italy Attendance: 817
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19 September 2009	Mexico	3–7	United States	Vicenza, Italy Attendance: 500
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20 September 2009	Australia	6–5	Mexico	Macerata, Italy Attendance: 1,300
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20 September 2009	Canada	5 – 3(F/6)	Chinese Taipei	Parma, Italy Attendance: 323
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20 September 2009	Japan	10–1	Netherlands Antilles	Verona, Italy Attendance: 550
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20 September 2009	Italy	3–12	United States	Turin, Italy Attendance: 1,000
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21 September 2009	Italy	7–6	Netherlands Antilles	Vicenza, Italy Attendance: 150
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21 September 2009	United States	4–3	Australia	Bologna, Italy Attendance: 250
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Group 1

Team	W	L	R	RA	PCT
Cuba	5	2	35	15	.714
Puerto Rico	4	3	24	20	.571
Netherlands	3	4	36	38	.429
Venezuela	2	5	28	46	.289

Group 2

Team	W	L	R	RA	PCT
United States	7	0	48	14	1.000
Canada	4	3	32	28	.571
Australia	2	5	24	29	.289
Chinese Taipei	1	6	19	56	.143

22 September 2009	Cuba	2–1	Australia	Grosseto, Italy Attendance: 300
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22 September 2009	Puerto Rico	0–3	Canada	Nettuno, Italy Attendance: 500
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22 September 2009	United States	6–3	Venezuela	Florence, Italy Attendance: 170
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22 September 2009	Netherlands	11–2	Chinese Taipei	Stadio Primo NebioloMessina, Italy Attendance: 350
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23 September 2009	Canada	9–2	Venezuela	Chieti, Italy Attendance: 300
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23 September 2009	Australia	5–2	Netherlands	Grosseto, Italy Attendance: 250
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23 September 2009	Puerto Rico	0–3	United States	Florence, Italy Attendance: 130
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23 September 2009	Chinese Taipei	0–8	Cuba	Nettuno, Italy Attendance: 500
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24 September 2009	United States	5–3	Cuba	Nettuno, Italy Attendance: 2,000
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24 September 2009	Chinese Taipei	2–8	Puerto Rico	Chieti, Italy Attendance: 250
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24 September 2009	Canada	11–5	Netherlands	Grosseto, Italy Attendance: 250
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24 September 2009	Venezuela	9–4	Australia	Florence, Italy Attendance: 104
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25 September 2009	Cuba	5–1	Canada	Florence, Italy Attendance: 1,100
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25 September 2009	Venezuela	6–4	Chinese Taipei	Grosseto, Italy Attendance: 200
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25 September 2009	Australia	2–4	Puerto Rico	Chieti, Italy Attendance: 300
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25 September 2009	Netherlands	2–8	United States	Nettuno, Italy Attendance: 1,000
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26 September 2009	Venezuela	6–3	Chinese Taipei	Florence, Italy Attendance: 110
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26 September 2009	Netherlands	1–4	Australia	Stadio Primo NebioloMessina, Italy Attendance: 300
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26 September 2009	Puerto Rico	2–6	Canada	Grosseto, Italy Attendance: 1,000
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27 September 2009	Cuba	5–10	United States	Stadio Steno Borghese,Nettuno, Italy Attendance: 5,000
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Rk Team W L Tiebreakers  United States 14 1 Lost in the Final  Cuba 12 3 Failed to qualify for Final  Canada 12 3 4  Puerto Rico 10 5 Failed to qualify for bronze medal game 5  Australia 9 6 6  Netherlands 7 5 Failed to qualify for 5th place game 7  Venezuela 9 6 8  Chinese Taipei 6 9 Failed to qualify for Round 3 Rk Team W L 1st Tiebreaker 2nd Tiebreaker 9  South Korea 4 6 3–4 – 10  Japan 4 6 2–5 25 RA 11  Mexico 5 5 2–5 38 RA 12  Spain 3 7 2–5 47 RA 13  Nicaragua 5 5 2–5 48 RA 14  Italy 2 5 2–5 54 RA 15  Great Britain 1 9 0–7 50 RA 16  Netherlands Antilles 2 8 0–7 87 RA Failed to qualify for Round 2 Rk Team W L Tiebreaker 17  Germany 1 2 – 18  Croatia 0 3 27 RA 19  Sweden 0 3 34 RA 20  Czech Republic 0 3 36 RA 21  South Africa 0 3 37 RA 22  China 0 3 39 RA

2009 Baseball World Cup champions  United States 4th title

TheIBAF announced the following awards at the completion of the tournament.^[8]

All Star Team Position Player Best Starting Pitcher Norge Luis Vera Best Relief Pitcher Trystan Magnuson Catcher Sidney de Jong First Base Justin Smoak Second Base Héctor Olivera Third Base Shawn Bowman Short Stop Hainley Statia Outfield Alfredo Despaigne José Dariel Abreu Jon Weber Designated Hitter Terry Tiffee

Tournament Awards Award Player MVP Justin Smoak Leading Batter Paco Figueroa Best Earned Run Average (Pitcher) Matt Kniginyzky Best Won/Loss Average (Pitcher) Todd Redmond Most Runs Batted In René Reyes Most Home Runs Alfredo Despaigne Most Stolen Bases Paco Figueroa Most Runs Scored Rene Tosoni Outstanding Defensive Player Ángel Sánchez

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