2009 World Baseball Classic Totally Explained

Everything about 2009 World Baseball Classic totally explained

The 2009 World Baseball Classic will be an international baseball competition. It follows the inaugural 2006 World Baseball Classic, the first international tournament to feature a large number of major league players. It will be during March, also the time of MLB spring training.

Format

The 2006 tournament consisted of 16 national teams initially divided into four pools. In an attempt to avoid the kind of convoluted tiebreaking procedures the World Baseball Classic rules committee instituted for the inaugural 2006 tournament, the round-robin format will be replaced in 2009 by double-elimination to move teams beyond the first two rounds. Also unlike 2006, there will be a crossover of teams from their second-round pools to the semifinals; the winner of each second-round pool will face the runner-up of the other. The winners of the semifinals then meet to determine the World Baseball Classic champions.

Teams

All 16 nations that participated in the 2006 tournament have been invited to play in the 2009 tournament.

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D

Venues

Round 1
- Pool A: Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan (cap. 42,000) from March 5-9
- Pool B: Foro Sol Stadium, Mexico City, Mexico (cap. 27,940) from March 8-12
- Pool C: Rogers Centre, Toronto, Canada (cap. 49,539) from March 8-12
- Pool D: Hiram Bithorn Stadium, San Juan, Puerto Rico (cap. 18,000) from March 7-11

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