2007 Baseball World Cup


The XXXVII International Baseball Federation Baseball World Cup was held in Taiwan 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, 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

Table

RankTeamWinsLossesRuns AllowedRun Ratio
1 United States61182.70
2 Chinese Taipei 52253.69
3 Japan52203.16
4 Mexico43325.24
5 Panama 34395.85
6 Italy34314.73
7 Spain16639.00
8 South Africa077211.57

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.

Group B

Table

Schedule

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

Knockout Rounds

Awards

The IBAF announced the following awards at the completion of the tournament.
PositionPlayer
Catcher Sidney de Jong
First Base Yasuyuki Saigo
Second Base Jayson Nix
Third Base Efren Rodriguez Espinosa
Short Stop Sohn Si-Hun
Outfield Trent Oeltjen
Outfield Frederich Cepeda
Outfield Colby Rasmus
Designated Hitter Max di Biase

AwardPlayer
MVP Jayson Nix
Batting Award Trent Oeltjen
Fielding Award Hainley Statia
Pitching Award Tadashi Settsu
Aroldis Chapman