Qualifier 3 of the Qualifying Round of the 2013 World Baseball Classic was held at Rod Carew Stadium, Panama City, Panama from November 15 to 19, 2012.
Qualifier 3 was a modified double-elimination tournament. The winners for the first games matched up in the second game, while the losers faced each other in an elimination game. The winners of the elimination game then played the losers of the non-elimination game in another elimination game. The remaining two teams then played each other to determine the winners of the Qualifier 3.
| Preliminaries | Semifinals | Qualifier | |||||||||||
| – |  Brazil | 3 | |||||||||||
| – |  Panama | 2 | |||||||||||
| W1 | Brazil | 7 | |||||||||||
| W2 |  Colombia | 1 | |||||||||||
| – |  Nicaragua | 1 | |||||||||||
| – | Colombia | 8 | |||||||||||
| W3 | Brazil | 1 | |||||||||||
| W5 | Panama | 0 | |||||||||||
| Lower round 1 | Lower final | ||||||||||||
| W4 | Panama | 9 | |||||||||||
| L1 | Panama | 6 | L3 | Colombia | 7 | ||||||||
| L2 | Nicaragua | 2 | |||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Panama | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Noris Chacon (1−0) LP: Ernesto Silva (0−1) Sv: Thyago Vieira (1) Attendance: 13,728 (50.8%) Umpires: HP − Toby Basner, 1B − Domingo Polanco, 2B − Angel Campos, 3B − Jair Fernandez Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicaragua | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Colombia | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | X | 8 | 9 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Sugar Ray Marimón (1–0) LP: Erasmo Ramírez (0–1) Home runs: NCA: Cheslor Cuthbert (1) COL: Giovanny Urshela (1), Steve Brown (1) Attendance: 4,028 (14.9%) Umpires: HP − Clint Fagan, 1B − Cesar Valdes, 2B − Toby Basner, 3B − Domingo Polanco Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Brazil | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | X | 7 | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Carlos Yoshimura (1–0) LP: Cristian Mendoza (0–1) Attendance: 2,952 (10.9%) Umpires: HP − Angel Campos, 1B − Jair Fernandez, 2B − Clint Fagan, 3B − Cesar Valdes Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicaragua | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Panama | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | X | 6 | 9 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Gilberto Mendez (1–0) LP: Edgar Ramirez (0–1) Attendance: 8,531 (31.6%) Umpires: HP − Toby Basner, 1B − Clint Fagan, 2B − Domingo Polanco, 3B − Jair Fernandez Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panama | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Colombia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Ramiro Mendoza (1–0) LP: Karl Triana (0–1) Home runs: PAN: Carlos Lee (1), Ruben Rivera (1) COL: None Attendance: 5,317 (19.7%) Umpires: HP − Clint Fagan, 1B − Angel Campos, 2B − Jair Fernandez, 3B − Cesar Valdes Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panama | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Brazil | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 1 | 10 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Rafael Fernandes (1–0) LP: Angel Cuan (0−1) Sv: Thyago Vieira (2) Attendance: 10,638 (39.4%) Umpires: HP − Angel Campos, 1B − Toby Basner, 2B − Cesar Valdes, 3B − Domingo Polanco Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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