2009 World Port Tournament

The 2009 World Port Tournament is an international baseball competition held at the DOOR Neptunus Familiestadion in Rotterdam, The Netherlands from July 2–12, 2009. It will be the 12th edition of the tournament and will feature teams from Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Japan and the Netherlands.

Originally, USA Baseball would send an All-Star team from the Great South League, but due to missing papers, the team had to withdrew from the tournament, one day before starting. The organization of the tournament decided that the four teams would meet each other a third time in the tournament.[1]

Group stage

Standings

	Qualified for the final
	Did not qualify for the final

#	Team	Games	Wins	Tie	Losses
1	Cuba	9	7	1	1
2	Netherlands	9	4	0	5
3	Chinese Taipei	9	3	1	5
4	Japan	9	3	0	6

^1 Game 10 was postponed due to rain to Thursday morning, right before Game 13. Due to this double game, it was rule out to continue after the end of the 9th inning. It was the first time ever since 1989, that a full game ended in a tie.[2]
^2 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.)

Game results

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 R H E  Chinese Taipei 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 9 2  Japan 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 1 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1  Cuba 0 2 0 3 0 3 0 0 X 8 12 0 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 2  Cuba 0 0 3 3 2 1 0 0 X 9 16 0 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Netherlands 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 6 14 1  Cuba 4 1 4 0 0 0 1 0 X 10 15 1 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Netherlands 2 0 0 0 2 3 0 1 0 8 16 0  Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1  Cuba 0 3 0 0 1 6 X 10 10 1 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Cuba 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 5 8 0  Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 4 9 0 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Chinese Taipei 0 0 1 2 2 1 1 1 0 8 15 1  Japan 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Japan 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 8 1  Cuba 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 1

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Cuba 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 0  Netherlands 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Netherlands 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 8 0  Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 3 X 8 9 1 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Japan 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 6 12 1  Netherlands 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Japan 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 6 11 1  Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 2 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Chinese Taipei 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 1  Cuba 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 6 2 ^1 Game 10, was originally scheduled on July 7, 2009 on 19:00 UTC+1. Due to rain the game was postponed to July 9, 2009. Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 0  Netherlands 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 X 2 5 1 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Japan 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 5 1  Netherlands 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 4 11 2 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Cuba 0 1 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 8 17 0  Netherlands 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Netherlands 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 0 0 6 7 1  Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 5 12 3

Championship game

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Netherlands	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	6	1
Cuba	0	1	0	0	2	1	2	3	X	9	17	1

Tournament awards and statistics

Leading Hitter	Adonis García
Best Pitcher	Maikel Folch
Home run King	Yoelvis Fiss
Most Valuable Player	Yoelvis Fiss
Most Popular Player	Nick Urbanus
Rookie Award	Nick Urbanus
Donald Bax Press Award	Bas de Jong

References

1. "Team USA withdraws (Dutch)". Archived from the original on 2009-09-08. Retrieved 2009-07-12.
2. "Cuba en Taiwan zorgen voor uniek moment (Dutch)". Archived from the original on 2009-07-13. Retrieved 2009-07-09.

External links

• Official Website
• News updates from the 2009 World Port Tournament