2006 Intercontinental Cup (baseball)

Ticket Sales

Tickets went on sale at noon on Friday, November 3 for the games of the first four days over the Internet. Over following days, tickets for the next day not yet offered will then become available. Internet sales of tickets will end at noon two days prior to the date the game is played. The Sunday, November 11 game between Taiwan and South Korea was the first game to sell out, having sold out within three hours of tickets being made available.

Round robin

The eight teams will play a round robin format in which they will each play the other teams once. This means that each team will play seven games in this first phase of the tournament over the course of eight days.

¹ Game called due to bad weather condition.
² Dutch manager ejected in the top of the eleventh for obscenities in argument with an umpire.

TF = Taichung Baseball Field

IBC = Intercontinental Baseball Stadium

Table

DI=Innings played on defenseRA/9DI=Runs allowed for every nine defensive innings played

Tiebreaker

head-to-head

RA/9DI

Notes

Cuba wins tiebreaker over Japan based on head-to-head result

South Korea wins tiebreaker over Italy based on head-to-head result

Classification Round

The teams that finish in fifth through eighth place in the round robin will face off in the consolation round. All consolation round matches will be played at Taichung Baseball Field.

Medal Round

The top four teams from the round robin will enter the medal round of the competition. All medal round games will be played at the Intercontinental Baseball Stadium.

Final line score

Trivia

This tournament marks the official opening of Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium

Asia's big three teams are all short-handed as 2006 Taiwan Series champions La New Bears, Japan Series champions Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, and South Korea champions Samsung Lions are all participating in the 2006 Konami Cup Asia Series in Tokyo, Japan, which started on the same day.