2017 World Baseball Classic

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Template:Use American English Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox international baseball tournament The 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball competition, composed of 16 competing nations, held from March 6 to 22, 2017. It was the fourth iteration of the World Baseball Classic. The first-round hosts were Seoul (South Korea), Tokyo (Japan), Miami (Florida, United States), and Zapopan (Mexico). The second-round hosts were Tokyo and San Diego (California, United States), and the championship round was played in Los Angeles (California, United States).[1]

Twelve of the sixteen competing nations qualified based on their performance during the first round of the 2013 tournament; the remaining four nations were the winners of four qualification tournaments that took place in February, March, and September 2016.[2] Two of the four qualifiers, Colombia and Israel, made their first appearance in the WBC, and both have secured their positions for the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

The Netherlands, Japan, Puerto Rico, and the United States advanced to the championship round. Defending champion Dominican Republic was eliminated in the second round. The United States defeated Puerto Rico to win the championship game, 8–0. Marcus Stroman was named tournament MVP. He made three starts for the U.S. and posted a 2.35 ERA in 15<templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄3 total innings, including 6 shutout innings in the championship game.

Qualification

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Team World ranking[3] Method of qualification Classic appearance Previous best position
File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada 8th 2013 World Baseball Classic 4th Round 1
File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China 18th 2013 World Baseball Classic 4th Round 1
File:Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chinese Taipei 4th 2013 World Baseball Classic 4th Round 2 (2013)
File:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba 5th 2013 World Baseball Classic 4th Runners-up (2006)
File:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic 13th 2013 World Baseball Classic 4th Champions (2013)
File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy 10th 2013 World Baseball Classic 4th Round 2 (2013)
File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan 1st 2013 World Baseball Classic 4th Champions (2006, 2009)
File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands 9th 2013 World Baseball Classic 4th Fourth place (2013)
File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico 12th 2013 World Baseball Classic 4th Runners-up (2013)
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea 3rd 2013 World Baseball Classic 4th Runners-up (2009)
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States 2nd 2013 World Baseball Classic 4th Fourth place (2009)
File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela 7th 2013 World Baseball Classic 4th Third place (2009)
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 11th Qualifier 1 4th Round 1
File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico 6th Qualifier 2 4th Round 2 (2006, 2009)
File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia 19th Qualifier 3 1st —
File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel 41st Qualifier 4 1st —

Format

The first and second rounds of the tournament were played in round-robin format, with each team playing each other team in their pool once, as was the case in 2006. However, in an effort to reduce the likelihood that a team would be eliminated on statistical tiebreakers, the tournament schedule allowed for a seventh game at each pool-play site.

  • If there is a two-way tie for first, since both teams advance, there would be no extra game. The team that won the original game between the teams would be declared the pool winner, and the other team the pool runner-up.
  • If there is a three-way tie for first (all three teams being 2–1, and the last team 0–3), head-to-head results would not help to break the tie. In this case, statistics would determine the first-place team, and the other two would play to determine the pool runner-up.
  • If there is a three-way tie for second (all three teams being 1–2, and the first team 3–0), statistics would determine the top two teams who would then play to determine the pool runner-up. The team ranked worst on the calculation would be eliminated.

In either of the latter cases, the statistics used to rank the tied teams were:

  1. Fewest runs allowed per inning of defense in head-to-head games
  2. Fewest earned runs allowed per inning of defense in head-to-head games
  3. Highest batting average in head-to-head games
  4. Drawing of lots[4][5]

Rosters

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Venues

Six stadiums were used during the main tournament:

Pool A Pool B & E Pool C
Template:Flagicon Seoul, South Korea Template:Flagicon Tokyo, Japan Template:Flagicon Miami, United States
Gocheok Sky Dome Tokyo Dome Marlins Park
Capacity: 16,813 Capacity: 42,000 Capacity: 36,742
File:Gocheok Sky Dome interior.jpg File:Tokyo Dome 2007-1.jpg File:Marlins First Pitch at Marlins Park, April 4, 2012 (cropped).jpg
Pool D Pool F Championship
Template:Flagicon Zapopan, Mexico Template:Flagicon San Diego, United States Template:Flagicon Los Angeles, United States
Estadio Charros de Jalisco Petco Park Dodger Stadium
Capacity: 16,000 Capacity: 40,162 Capacity: 56,000
File:Estadio Telmex de Atletismo.JPG File:Opening Day 2009 Petco Park.jpg File:Dodger Stadium field from upper deck 2015-10-04.jpg

Pools composition

Note: Numbers in parentheses indicate positions in the WBSC World Rankings at the time of the tournament.[3]

Pool A Pool B Pool C Pool D
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea (3) (hosts) File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan (1) (hosts) File:Flag of the United States.svg United States (2) (hosts) File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico (6) (hosts)
File:Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chinese Taipei (4) File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia (11) File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada (8) File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy (10)
File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands (9) File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China (18) File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia (19) File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico (12)
File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel (41) File:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba (5) File:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic (13) File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela (7)

First round

Pool A

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Pool A of the First Round of the 2017 World Baseball Classic was held at Gocheok Sky Dome, Seoul, South Korea from March 6 to 10, 2017, between Team Israel, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Taiwan. Pool A was a round-robin tournament. Prior to the start of the tournament, ESPN considered Team Israel, ranked 41st in the world, to be the biggest underdog in the tournament, referring to them as the "Jamaican bobsled team of the WBC".[6][7]

Team Israel (3–0) and Team Netherlands (2–1) qualified for the second round, in Japan.[8] Israel became the first baseball team to go undefeated in the first round of the WBC's main draw after entering the main draw by winning in a qualifying round.[9][10] In what NBC reported was thought to be the tallest batter-pitcher matchup in baseball history, the Dutch team's Script error: No such module "convert". Loek van Mil walked Israel's Script error: No such module "convert". Nate Freiman.[11] Israel's catcher, Ryan Lavarnway, was named Pool A MVP, after going 5-for-9 (.556/.692/.889), with four walks, a home run, and three RBIs.[12][13]

Pool B

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Two-time champion Japan concluded Pool B with a 3–0 record. Cuba defeated Australia to advance to the second round.[14] In the first round, after batting .364, Japanese outfielder Yoshitomo Tsutsugoh was named the Pool B MVP.[15]

Pool C

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Pool D

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Tiebreaker game

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While Puerto Rico cruised in all three of its games, the fight for the other three places was extremely tight. Italy scored 5 runs in the bottom of the 9th inning to shock Mexico in the first game, then lost an extra-inning slugfest against Venezuela. In the final game, Mexico defeated Venezuela in another slugfest and thought they had scored enough runs to advance on tiebreakers,[17] though this turned out not to be the case.

The first tiebreaker criterion is fewest runs allowed per defensive inning played (RA/IPD) in the games among the tied teams. Although Mexico allowed the fewest runs in those games (19, to Italy's 20, and Venezuela's 21), Mexico played fewer defensive innings (17, while the other two teams had 19) and thus had the highest average RA/IPD (1.117, to Italy's 1.053 and Venezuela's 1.105). This occurred for two reasons: the Italy-Venezuela game went 10 innings, and Mexico was the road team while losing to Italy. In fact, the Mexico-Italy game did go into the bottom of the 9th, in which Italy scored runs that were charged against Mexico but Mexico failed to record an out. There was confusion during and after the Mexico-Venezuela game, with an initial calculation showing that Mexico had advanced. Mexico filed a formal protest of its elimination, but the protest was denied.[17][18]

As specified in the rules, Mexico was eliminated by the tiebreaker calculation and a tiebreaker game was played between Italy and Venezuela, which Venezuela won with a 9th-inning rally.

According to the rules as announced at the time, Mexico's last-place finish would have required it to participate in a qualifying tournament in order to re-qualify for the 2021 World Baseball Classic. However, MLB announced in 2020 that the field of teams for the 2021 WBC would be expanded, with all 2017 WBC participants qualifying automatically and four new teams coming from qualifying tournaments.[19]

Second round

Pool E

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Undefeated Japan (3–0) and the Netherlands (2–1) advanced to the semi-final round, as Israel (1–2) came in third, and Cuba (0–3) fourth.[20]

Pool F

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Pool F started with Puerto Rico handing the Dominican Republic its first loss since the 2009 World Baseball Classic. Puerto Rico ended Pool F still undefeated and Venezuela was eliminated, going 0–3. The final game of the pool was a rematch between the United States and Dominican Republic to advance to the championship round. The DR took an early 2–0 lead in the first inning, but the United States came back to win 6–3 to eliminate the defending champions.

Championship round

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Semifinals

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Final

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Final standings

The final standings were calculated by the WBSC for inclusion in the WBSC Men's Baseball World Rankings system.[21]

In the final standings, ties were to be broken in the following order of priority:

  1. The team with the highest Team's Quality Balance (TQB=(RS/IPO)–(RA/IPD)) in all games;
  2. The team with the highest Earned Runs Team's Quality Balance (ER–TQB=(ERS/IPO)–(ERA/IPD)) in all games;
  3. The team with the highest batting average (AVG) in all games;

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When the 2017 WBC was played, it was assumed that the field for the following 2021 WBC would remain 16 teams. Under the qualification format in use at the time, the bottom four finishers from 2017 (Canada, China, Mexico, and Chinese Taipei) would've been forced to re-qualify for 2021.[22] However, in January 2020, MLB announced it was expanding the field for the 2021 WBC from 16 teams to 20 and that all 16 participants from 2017 would receive automatic bids for 2021, thus sparing the bottom four nations from relegation to the qualifiers.[19]

Awards

Most Valuable Players

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First round

Second round

Championship round

2017 All-World Baseball Classic team

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Position Player
C Template:Bbicon Yadier Molina
1B Template:Bbicon Eric Hosmer
2B Template:Bbicon Javier Báez
3B Template:Bbicon Carlos Correa
SS Template:Bbicon Francisco Lindor
OF Template:Bbicon Wladimir Balentien
Template:Bbicon Gregory Polanco
Template:Bbicon Christian Yelich
DH Template:Bbicon Carlos Beltrán
P Template:Bbicon Kodai Senga
Template:Bbicon Marcus Stroman
Template:Bbicon Josh Zeid

Source: [23]

Attendance

973,699 (avg. 24,342; pct. 72.3%)

First round

508,830 (avg. 20,353; pct. 74.3%)

  • Pool A – 52,286 (avg. 8,714; pct. 51.9%)
  • Pool B – 206,534 (avg. 34,422; pct. 82.0%)
  • Pool C – 163,878 (avg. 27,313; pct. 74.3%)
  • Pool D – 86,132 (avg. 12,305; pct. 76.9%)

Second round

354,977 (avg. 29,581; pct. 72.0%)

  • Pool E – 209,072 (avg. 34,845; pct. 83.0%)
  • Pool F – 145,905 (avg. 24,318; pct. 60.5%)

Championship round

109,892 (avg. 36,631; pct. 65.4%)

  • Semifinals – 58,327 (avg. 29,164; pct. 52.1%)
  • Final – 51,565 (avg. 51,565; pct. 92.1%)

Statistics leaders

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Broadcasting

Television

Territory Rights holder
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia ESPN Australia
File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand
File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil ESPN Brazil
File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Sportsnet/RDS
File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Telecaribe/Win Sports[24]
File:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba Tele Rebelde, Digital Channels: HD 1 y HD 2.
File:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic CDN Sports-Max[25]
File:Flag of Cyprus.svg Cyprus Fox Sports Greece
File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece
File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Fox Sports Turkey
File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy Template:Interlanguage link[26]
File:Flag of Malta.svg Malta
File:Flag of San Marino.svg San Marino
File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel Fox Sports Israel
File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan J Sports, TBS, TV Asahi
Latin America DirecTV Sports (es)[27]
Southeast Asia Fox Sports Asia
File:Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong
File:Flag of Macau.svg Macau
File:Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taiwan
File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Televisa Deportes
File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Fox Sports Netherlands
File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines Sports5
File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico Wapa 2 Deportes[28]
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Viasat Sport (semifinals and final)[29]
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea JTBC, JTBC3 Fox Sports
File:Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taiwan Eleven Sports/PTS
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States MLB Network/ESPN Deportes[30]
File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela Direct TV/IVC/TLT/TVes

[24]

Radio

Territory Rights holder
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States ESPN Radio (semifinals and finals)/ESPN Deportes Radio
SiriusXM

References

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  7. ↑ "World Baseball Classic: Israel's Cinderella Run Forges Ahead After Upsetting Taiwan" Template:Webarchive, Haaretz.
  8. ↑ "Israel clinches berth in World Baseball Classic quarterfinals." Template:Webarchive The Jerusalem Post
  9. ↑ "Israel Goes to 3–0 at World Baseball Classic" Template:Webarchive, The New York Times, March 9, 2017.
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  18. ↑ Mexico files protest after beating Venezuela, losing World Baseball Classic tiebreaker Template:Webarchive – USA Today, March 13, 2017
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External links

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