2007 Baseball World Cup

The XXXVII International Baseball Federation (IBAF) Baseball World Cup was held in Taiwan (competing under the name of Chinese Taipei) from November 6 through November 18, 2007. Four stadiums hosted. Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium and Taichung Baseball Field in Taichung City, Tianmu Baseball Stadium in Taipei City and Sinjhuang City all played host to the tournament. Sixteen teams participated. At one time, Venezuela’s participation was in question due to possible sanctions to be considered by the International Baseball Federation in the wake of their refusal to grant visas to a youth team from Taichung to participate in the Youth World Baseball championships in August, 2007,[1] but they were allowed to participate. China was originally scheduled to participate in Pool B, but dropped out and was replaced by Thailand, who placed fifth behind China at the Asian Games.

Group A

**Pool A**
Rank	Team	Wins	Losses	Runs Allowed	Run Ratio
1	United States	6	1	18	2.70
2	Chinese Taipei	5	2	25	3.69
3	Japan	5	2	20	3.16
4	Mexico	4	3	32	5.24
5	Panama	3	4	39	5.85
6	Italy	3	4	31	4.73
7	Spain	1	6	63	9.00
8	South Africa	0	7	72	11.57

^1 Chinese Taipei is the official 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.)
^2 The IBAF, in agreement with the IBAF Executive Committee, has ruled on Panama starting play with five players without insurance cover on Nov. 7 and 8 during the 37th Baseball World Cup:
1. These five players were not eligible to play in the Games #3 and #11.
2. The Panama team must forfeit both Games #3 and #11.
3. The official result for Game #3 will be Spain 9, Panama 0.
4. The official result for Game #11 will be USA 9, Panama 0.
5. The official record and final standings will reflect these changes.

With the exception of the opening game of the tournament, all group A games are played at Taichung Baseball Field, Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium and Douliu Baseball Stadium.

The local crowd celebrates as Chinese Taipei defeat the visitors from Japan 6-1 in the opening round of the 2007 Baseball World Cup

**Pool B**
Rank	Team	Wins	Losses	Runs Allowed	Run Ratio
1	Cuba	6	1	13	1.95
2	Australia	6	1	20	2.81
3	Netherlands	5	2	22	3.30
4	South Korea	4	3	17	2.55
5	Canada	4	3	22	3.36
6	Venezuela	2	5	37	5.55
7	Germany	1	6	52	7.80
8	Thailand	0	7	108	20.68

All group B games are played either at Tienmu Baseball Stadium in Taipei City or at Xinzhuang Baseball Stadium in Taipei County.

The IBAF announced the following awards at the completion of the tournament.[3][4]

Tournament Awards
Award	Player
MVP	Jayson Nix
Batting Award	Trent Oeltjen
Fielding Award	Hainley Statia
Pitching Award	Tadashi Settsu Aroldis Chapman

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