# 2009 World Baseball Classic Pool 1

Pool 1 of the Second Round of the 2009 World Baseball Classic was held at Petco Park, San Diego, California, United States from March 15 to 19, 2009.
Like the first round, Pool 1 was a modified double-elimination tournament. The final two teams played against each other for seeding and both advanced to the semifinals.

## Bracket

| Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Qualifiers | Qualifiers | Qualifiers | Seeding | Seeding | Seeding |
| AR | Japan | 6 | | | | | | |
| BW | Cuba | 0 | | | | | | |
| BW | Cuba | 0 | W1 | Japan | 1 | | | |
| | | | W2 | South Korea | 4 | | | |
| BR | Mexico | 2 | W2 | South Korea | 4 | | | |
| AW | South Korea | 8 | | | | | | |
| AW | South Korea | 8 | | | | W4 | South Korea | 2 |
| | | | | | | W5 | Japan | 6 |
| Lower round 1 | Lower round 1 | Lower round 1 | Lower final | Lower final | Lower final | W5 | Japan | 6 |
| | | | W3 | Cuba | 0 | | | |
| L1 | Cuba | 7 | L4 | Japan | 5 | | | |
| L2 | Mexico | 4 | | | | | | |

## Results

* All times are Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−07:00).

### Japan 6, Cuba 0

March 15 13:00 at Petco Park :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 2 |
| Cuba | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| WP: Daisuke Matsuzaka (2–0) LP: Aroldis Chapman (0–1) Attendance: 20,179 (47.3%) Umpires: HP − Hunter Wendelstedt, 1B − Carlos Rey, 2B − Bill Miller, 3B − Willie Rodriguez Boxscore |||||||||||||

### South Korea 8, Mexico 2

March 15 20:00 at Petco Park :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Mexico | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| South Korea | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | X | 8 | 12 | 1 |
| WP: Hyun-wook Jong (1–0) LP: Oliver Perez (0–1) Home runs: MEX: None KOR: Bum-ho Lee (1), Tae-kyun Kim (1), Young-min Ko (1) Attendance: 22,337 (52.3%) Umpires: HP − Joe West, 1B − Willie Rodriguez, 2B − Bill Miller, 3B − Paul Hyham Boxscore |||||||||||||

### Cuba 7, Mexico 4

March 16 20:00 at Petco Park :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Cuba | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 0 |
| Mexico | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| WP: Norge Luis Vera (2–0) LP: Jorge Campillo (1–1) Sv: Pedro Luis Lazo (1) Home runs: CUB: None MEX: Jorge Cantú (1), Cristhian Presichi (1) Attendance: 9,329 (21.9%) Umpires: HP − Bill Miller, 1B − Paul Hyham, 2B − Hunter Wendelstedt, 3B − Carlos Rey Boxscore |||||||||||||

### South Korea 4, Japan 1

March 17 20:00 at Petco Park :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| South Korea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| WP: Jung-keun Bong (2–0) LP: Yu Darvish (1–1) Sv: Chang-yong Lim (2) Attendance: 15,332 (35.9%) Umpires: HP − Hunter Wendelstedt, 1B − Carlos Rey, 2B − Joe West, 3B − Willie Rodriguez Boxscore |||||||||||||

### Japan 5, Cuba 0

March 18 20:00 at Petco Park :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| Cuba | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| WP: Hisashi Iwakuma (1–1) LP: Yunesky Maya (0–1) Sv: Toshiya Sugiuchi (1) Attendance: 9,774 (22.9%) Umpires: HP − Joe West, 1B − Willie Rodriguez, 2B − Hunter Wendelstedt, 3B − Paul Hyham Boxscore |||||||||||||

### Japan 6, South Korea 2

March 19 18:00 at Petco Park :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 3 |
| South Korea | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
| WP: Hideaki Wakui (1–0) LP: Seung-hwan Oh (0–1) Home runs: JPN: Seiichi Uchikawa (1) KOR: Bum-ho Lee (2) Attendance: 14,832 (34.7%) Umpires: HP − Bill Miller, 1B − Paul Hyham, 2B − Joe West, 3B − Carlos Rey Boxscore |||||||||||||