2006 World Baseball Classic championship
The Championship Round of the 2006 World Baseball Classic was held at Petco Park, San Diego, California, United States from March 18 to 20, 2006.
Championship round was a single-elimination tournament. In the final, the team with the higher winning percentage of games in the tournament were to be the home team. If the teams competing in the final had identical winning percentages in the tournament, then World Baseball Classic, Inc. (WBCI) would conduct a coin flip or draw to determine the home team.
Bracket
Template:2006 World Baseball Classic Championship bracket
Results
- All times are Pacific Standard Time (UTC−08:00).
Semifinal 1 – Cuba 3, Dominican Republic 1
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cuba |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
 Dominican Republic |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Pedro Luis Lazo (1–0) LP: Odalis Pérez (2–1) Attendance: 41,268 (97.2%) Umpires: HP − Bob Davidson, 1B − Tom Hallion, 2B − Chris Guccione, 3B − Neil Poulton, LF − Carlos Rey, RF − Ed Hickox Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semifinal 2 – Japan 6, South Korea 0
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Japan |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
 South Korea |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Koji Uehara (2–0) LP: Byung-doo Jun (0–1) Home runs: JPN: Kosuke Fukudome (1), Hitoshi Tamura (1) KOR: None Attendance: 42,639 (100.5%) Umpires: HP − Ed Hickox, 1B − Chris Guccione, 2B − Bob Davidson, 3B − Carlos Rey, LF − Tom Hallion, RF − Neil Poulton Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Final – Japan 10, Cuba 6
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan |
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Cuba |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Daisuke Matsuzaka (3–0) LP: Ormari Romero (2–1) Sv: Akinori Otsuka (1) Home runs: JPN: None CUB: Eduardo Paret (1), Frederich Cepeda (1) Attendance: 42,696 (100.6%) Umpires: HP − Tom Hallion, 1B − Bob Davidson, 2B − Ed Hickox, 3B − Carlos Rey, LF − Neil Poulton, RF − Chris Guccione Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||