 Tokyo Dome | |
| Tournament details | |
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| Country | Japan |
| Dates | November 16–19 |
| Teams | 3 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Japan (1st title) |
| Runner-up |  South Korea |
| Third place |  Chinese Taipei |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Games played | 4 |
| Attendance | 104,826 (26,207 per game) |
| MVP | Shuta Tonosaki |
The 2017 Asia Professional Baseball Championship (APBC 2017), sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), was the first edition of APBC, and was held in Japan from November 16 to 19. [1] [2]
Only players born in 1993 or later, or that have less than three years of professional experience are eligible for the competition. However, teams are also allowed up to three wild cards which do not meet either of these criteria. Korea is the only team to have elected not to use its wild cards. [3]
Each of the three teams participated in a round-robin series, playing each other team once. The two teams with the best win-loss percentage faced each other in the final, with the team finishing higher considered the "home team", meaning that they had the advantage of batting last.
| Pos | Team | W | L | Pct. | R | RA |
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| 1 | Japan | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 16 | 9 |
| 2 | South Korea | 1 | 1 | .500 | 8 | 8 |
| 3 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 2 | .000 | 2 | 9 |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Mizuki Hori (1–0) LP: Lee Min-ho (0–1) Home runs: KOR: Kim Ha-seong (1) JPN: Hotaka Yamakawa (1), Seiji Uebayashi (1) Attendance: 32,815 Game time: 4 hours 29 minutes Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 1 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Im Gi-yeong (1–0) LP: Chen Kuan-yu (0–1) Sv: Jang Pill-joon (1) Attendance: 6,040 Game time: 3 hours 27 minutes Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Shota Imanaga (1–0) LP: Lin Cheng-hsien (0–1) Home runs: JPN: Shuta Tonosaki (1) TWN: Chu Yu-hsien (1) Attendance: 35,473 Game time: 4 hours 4 minutes Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | X | 7 | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Kazuto Taguchi (1–0) LP: Park Se-woong (0–1) Home runs: KOR: None JPN: Ryoma Nishikawa (1) Attendance: 30,498 Game time: 3 hours 29 minutes Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The APBC 2017 organization announced MVP and All APBC 2017 team of Asia Professional Baseball Championship 2017 as follows. [4]
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