# 2005 Asia Series

The first Konami Cup Asia Series was held in November 2005 with four teams participating. The champions from the domestic leagues in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan along with a team of all stars from China's domestic league took part in the competition. All games were held in the Tokyo Dome in Japan. The tournament was sponsored by the Nippon Professional Baseball Association and Konami. The Chiba Lotte Marines defeated the Samsung Lions in the title game to win the championship for Japan. Outfielder Benny Agbayani was named the MVP of the series.

## Participating teams

* China Baseball League (China): China Stars, an all-star team of China Baseball League of China.
* Nippon Professional Baseball (Japan): Chiba Lotte Marines, winner of 2005 Japan Series. Based in Chiba, Japan.
* Korea Baseball Organization (Korea): Samsung Lions, winner of 2005 Korea Series. Based in Daegu, South Korea.
* Chinese Professional Baseball League (Taiwan): Sinon Bulls, winner of 2005 Taiwan Series. Based in Taichung, Taiwan.

## Matchups

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

### November 10

Game 1 11:00 Tokyo Dome :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Sinon Bulls | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 1 |
| China Stars | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| WP: Lenin Picota (1–0) LP: Chen Kun (陳坤) (0–1) Home runs: Sinon: Chang Chien-Ming (張建銘) (1) China: None |||||||||||||
Game 2 18:00 Tokyo Dome :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Samsung Lions | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| Chiba Lotte Marines | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 6 | 8 | 1 |
| WP: Hiroyuki Kobayashi (小林宏之) (1–0) LP: Martin Vargas (0–1) Home runs: Samsung: None Chiba: Tasuku Hashimoto (橋本将) (1) |||||||||||||

### November 11

Game 3 11:00 Tokyo Dome :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| China Stars | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 3 |
| Samsung Lions | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | X | 8 | 13 | 0 |
| WP: Jun Byung-Ho (전병호) (1–0) LP: Lai Guojun (賴國鈞) (0–1) Sv: Lim Dong-Gyu (임동규) (1) |||||||||||||
Game 4 18:00 Tokyo Dome :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Chiba Lotte Marines | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | - | - | 12 | 10 | 0 |
| Sinon Bulls | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| WP: Naoyuki Shimizu (清水直行) (1–0) LP: Yang Chien-fu (陽建福) (0–1) Home runs: Chiba: Benny Agbayani 2 (2) Sinon: None |||||||||||||

### November 12

Game 5 12:00 Tokyo Dome :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| China Stars | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
| Chiba Lotte Marines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| WP: Satoru Komiyama (小宮山悟) (1–0) LP: Zhang Li (張力) (0–1) Sv: Masahide Kobayashi (小林雅英) (1) |||||||||||||
Game 6 19:00 Tokyo Dome :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Sinon Bulls | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| Samsung Lions | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| WP: Tim Harikkala (1–0) LP: Osvaldo Martinez (0–1) Sv: Oh Seung-Hwan (오승환) (1) |||||||||||||

### Round-Robin Standings

| Position | Team | Chiba Lotte Marines | Samsung Lions | Sinon Bulls | China Stars | Wins | Losses | RS | RA |
| 1 | Chiba Lotte Marines | — | ○6–2 | ○12–1 | ○3–1 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 4 |
| 2 | Samsung Lions | ●2–6 | — | ○4–3 | ○8–3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 12 |
| 3 | Sinon Bulls | ●1–12 | ●3–4 | — | ○6–0 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 16 |
| 4 | China Stars | ●1–3 | ●3–8 | ●0–6 | — | 0 | 3 | 4 | 17 |

### Championship, November 13

Game 7 18:00 at Tokyo Dome :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Samsung Lions | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 0 |
| Chiba Lotte Marines | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 5 | 6 | 2 |
| WP: Shunsuke Watanabe (渡辺俊介) (1–0) LP: Bae Young-Soo (배영수) (0–1) Home runs: Samsung: None Chiba: Masato Watanabe (渡辺正人) (1) |||||||||||||
Attendance: 37,078 Time: 3:27