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The '''2007 World Port Tournament''' was an [[International Baseball Federation|international baseball]] competition held at the DOOR Neptunus Familiestadion in [[Rotterdam]], the [[Netherlands]] from August 2–12, 2007.  It was the 11th edition of the tournament and featured teams from [[Chinese Taipei]], [[Cuba]], [[Japan]], the [[Netherlands]] and the [[United States]].

Cuba won the tournament with a 2–0 victory over the Chinese Taipei in the [[Final (competition)|championship]] game. [[Yosvani Pérez]] was named the tournament's [[most valuable player]].

==Group stage==
===Standings===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|width=15px bgcolor="#98fb98"| ||Qualified for the final
|-
|width=15px bgcolor=pink| ||Did not qualify for the final
|}
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center"
!width=220|Team
!width=20|Games
!width=20|Wins
!width=20|Losses
!width=20|Runs scored
!width=20|Runs allowed
|- bgcolor="#98fb98"
|align=left|{{flagicon|CUB}} [[Cuba national baseball team|Cuba]]
|8||8||0||50||16
|- bgcolor="#98fb98"
|align=left|{{flagicon|TPE}} [[Chinese Taipei national baseball team|Chinese Taipei]] {{ref|1}}{{ref|1}}
|8||4||4||24||24
|- bgcolor=pink
|align=left|{{flagicon|USA}} [[USA Baseball|United States]] {{ref|1}}
|8||4||4||40||26
|- bgcolor=pink
|align=left|{{flagicon|NED}} [[Netherlands national baseball team|Netherlands]] {{ref|1}}
|8||4||4||19||36
|- bgcolor=pink
|align=left|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Japan national baseball team|Japan]]
|8||0||8||13||44
|}

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*{{note|1|1}} [[Chinese Taipei]] is the official [[International Baseball Federation|IBAF]] designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the [[Republic of China]], more commonly known as [[Taiwan]]. (See also [[political status of Taiwan]] for details.)
*{{note|2|2}} Final placement for 2nd through 4th in group play is based on the results of the individual games between [[Chinese Taipei national baseball team|Chinese Taipei]], the [[USA Baseball|United States]] and the [[Netherlands national baseball team|Netherlands]] (games 4, 6, 8, 14, 16 and 17).
{{refend}}

===Game results===
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| Date=Game 1: August 2, 2007
| Time=14:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
| Road={{Bb|TPE}}|RoadAbr=TPE
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| WP=[[Vladimir Baños]] (1-0)|LP=[[Kai-Wen Cheng]] (0-1)|SV=[[Arley Sánchez]] (1)
| RoadHR=|HomeHR=[[Donald Duarte]] (1)
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| Date=Game 3: August 3, 2007
| Time=14:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
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| Date=Game 5: August 4, 2007
| Time=14:00 [[UTC+1]]
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| WP=[[Ching-Ming Wang]] (1-0)|LP=[[Kenji Kobayashi]] (0-1)|SV=[[Chu-Kuan Lee]] (1)
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| Date=Game 7: August 5, 2007
| Time=13:30 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
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| WP=[[Yadel Martí]] (1-0)|LP=[[Rob Cordemans]] (0-1)|SV=[[Vicyohandri Odelín]] (1)
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| Date=Game 9: August 6, 2007
| Time=14:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
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| WP=[[Yulieski González]] (1-0)|LP=[[Scott Gorgen]] (0-1)|SV=
| RoadHR=[[Pedro Álvarez (baseball)|Pedro Álvarez]] (3)|HomeHR=[[Alfredo Despaigne]] 2 (3)
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| Date=Game 11: August 7, 2007
| Time=14:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
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| R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=4|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=1|R10=0|R11=0|R12=0|R13=1|RR=6|RH=20|RE=2
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| H1=0|H2=2|H3=0|H4=1|H5=1|H6=0|H7=0|H8=1|H9=0|H10=0|H11=0|H12=0|H13=0|HR=5||HH=12||HE=4
| RSP=|HSP=
| WP=[[Arley Sánchez]] (1-0)|LP=[[Chia-Chun Tang]] (0-1) |SV=[[Vladimir Pérez]] (1)
| RoadHR=[[Yosvani Pérez]] (2)|HomeHR=[[Chun-Tai Wang]] (1)
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| Date=Game 13: August 8, 2007
| Time=14:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
| Road={{Bb|JPN}}|RoadAbr=JPN
| R1=0|R2=1|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=1|RH=5|RE=2
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| RSP=|HSP=
| WP=[[Alberto Bicet]] (1-0)|LP=[[Tomoyuki Kaida]] (0-1)|SV=
| RoadHR=|HomeHR=[[José Julio Ruiz]] (3)
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| Date=Game 15: August 9, 2007
| Time=15:15 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
| Road={{Bb|JPN}}|RoadAbr=JPN
| R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=2|R6=0|R7=1|R8=0|R9=0|RR=3|RH=6|RE=1
| Home={{Bb|TPE}}|HomeAbr=TPE
| H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=1|H5=0|H6=1|H7=2|H8=0|H9=X|HR=4||HH=10||HE=0
| RSP=|HSP=
| WP=[[Ko-Chien Lin]] (1-0)|LP=[[Kyohei Tsuchimoto]] (0-1)|SV=
| RoadHR=|HomeHR=[[Yi-Chuan Lin]] (1)
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| Date=Game 17: August 10, 2007
| Time=14:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
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| R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=0|RH=3|RE=1
| Home={{Bb|TPE}}|HomeAbr=TPE
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| Date=Game 19: August 11, 2007
| Time=14:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
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| R1=2|R2=0|R3=0|R4=1|R5=0|R6=0|R7=1|R8=0|R9=1|RR=5|RH=10|RE=1
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| RSP=|HSP=
| WP=[[Arley Sánchez]] (2-0)|LP=[[Mike Minor (Baseball)|Mike Minor]] (0-1)|SV=
| RoadHR=[[Hector Olivera]] (1), [[Yosvani Pérez]] (3), [[José Julio Ruiz]] (4)|HomeHR=
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| Date=Game 2: August 2, 2007
| Time=19:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
| Road={{Bb|USA}}|RoadAbr=USA
| R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=1|RR=1|RH=1|RE=1
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| Date=Game 4: August 3, 2007
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| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
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| R1=0|R2=1|R3=1|R4=0|R5=0|R6=1|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=3|RH=5|RE=0
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| RSP=|HSP=
| WP=[[Leon Boyd]] (1-0)|LP=[[Wei-Hua Lee]] (0-1)|SV=[[Michiel van Kampen]] (1)
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| Date=Game 6: August 4, 2007
| Time=19:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]] (F/8: Mercy Rule)
| Road={{Bb|USA}}|RoadAbr=USA
| R1=2|R2=1|R3=0|R4=0|R5=3|R6=0|R7=3|R8=2|R9=|RR=11|RH=16|RE=1
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| RoadHR=[[Pedro Álvarez (baseball)|Pedro Álvarez]] (1)|HomeHR=
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| Date=Game 8: August 5, 2007
| Time=19:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
| Road={{Bb|TPE}}||RoadAbr=TPE
| R1=0|R2=0|R3=1|R4=1|R5=5|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=3|RR=10|RH=11|RE=1
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| WP=[[Chia-Chun Tang]] (1-0)|LP=[[Seth Frankoff]] (0-1)|SV=[[Ming-Chieh Hsu]] (1)
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| Date=Game 10: August 6, 2007
| Time=19:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
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| R1=3|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=1|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=4|RH=9|RE=0
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| Date=Game 12: August 7, 2007
| Time=19:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
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| WP=[[Eric Surkamp]] (1-0)|LP=[[Robert Booth]] (0-1)|SV=
| RoadHR=|HomeHR=[[Roger Kieschnick]] (1)
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| Date=Game 14: August 8, 2007
| Time=19:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
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| R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=0|RH=3|RE=0
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| Date=Game 16: August 9, 2007
| Time=19:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
| Road={{Bb|NED}}||RoadAbr=NED
| R1=0|R2=1|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=1|RR=2|RH=8|RE=1
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| WP=[[Ryan Berry]] (1-0)|LP=[[Diegomar Markwell]] (0-2)|SV=
| RoadHR=|HomeHR=[[Jordan Danks]] (1)
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| Date=Game 18: August 10, 2007
| Time=19:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
| Road={{Bb|NED}}||RoadAbr=NED
| R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=1|R9=0|RR=1|RH=5|RE=5
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| WP=[[Ciro Licea]] (1-0)|LP=[[Rob Cordemans]] (0-1)|SV=
| RoadHR=[[Sidney de Jong]] (1)|HomeHR=
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| Date=Game 20: August 11, 2007
| Time=19:00 [[UTC+1]]
| Location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
| Road={{Bb|JPN}}|RoadAbr=JPN
| R1=2|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|R10=0|R11=0|RR=2|RH=5|RE=1
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| WP=[[Duko Jansen]] (1-0)|LP=[[Kyohei Tsuchimoto]] (0-2)|SV=
| RoadHR=|HomeHR=[[Sidney de Jong]] (2)
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==Championship game==
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| Date=Game 1: August 12, 2007
| Time=13:30 [[UTC+1]]
| Road={{Bb|TPE}}|RoadAbr=TPE
| R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=0|RH=6|RE=0
| Home={{Bb|CUB}}|HomeAbr=CUB
| H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=1|H5=0|H6=1|H7=0|H8=0|H9=x|HR=2|HH=6|HE=0
| RSP=|HSP=
| WP=[[Yadel Martí]]|LP=[[Chu-Kuan Lee]]|SV=[[Yulieski González]]
| RoadHR=None|HomeHR=None
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==Tournament awards and statistics==
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
| Best Hitter
| {{flagicon|CUB}} [[Alfredo Despaigne]]
|-
| Best Pitcher
| {{flagicon|NED}} [[Leon Boyd]]
|-
| Most Valuable Player
| {{flagicon|CUB}} [[Yosvani Pérez]]
|-
| Most Popular Player
| {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Ryoji Nakata]]
|-
| Home Run King
| {{flagicon|CUB}} [[José Julio Ruiz]]
|-
| Rookie Award
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Jordan Danks]]
|-
| Press Award
| {{flagicon|NED}} [[Leon Boyd]]
|}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.worldporttournament.nl Official website]

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