Qualifier 2 of the qualifications of the 2013 World Baseball Classic was held at Armin-Wolf-Arena, Regensburg, Germany from September 20 to 24, 2012.
Qualifier 2 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 2.
Bracket edit
| Preliminaries | Semifinals | Qualifier | |||||||||||
| – |  Great Britain | 1 | |||||||||||
| – |  Canada | 11 | |||||||||||
| W1 | Canada | 16 | |||||||||||
| W2 |  Germany | 7 | |||||||||||
| – |  Czech Republic | 1 | |||||||||||
| – | Germany | 16 | |||||||||||
| W4 | Canada | 11 | |||||||||||
| W5 | Germany | 1 | |||||||||||
| Lower round 1 | Lower final | ||||||||||||
| W3 | Great Britain | 1 | |||||||||||
| L1 | Great Britain | 12 | L4 | Germany | 16 | ||||||||
| L2 | Czech Republic | 5 | |||||||||||
Results edit
- All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Canada 11, Great Britain 1 edit
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Great Britain |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | X | 1 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Canada |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | X | X | 11 | 11 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Shawn Hill (1–0) LP: Chris Reed (0–1) Sv: Chris Kissock (1) Home runs: GBR: Albert Cartwright (1) CAN: Jimmy Van Ostrand (1) Attendance: 3,704 (37.0%) Umpires: HP − Stephen Barga, 1B − Will Little, 2B − Liang-kuei Hsieh, 3B − Marco Screti Notes: Completed early due to 10–run mercy rule after 7 innings. One out when last run scored. Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Germany 16, Czech Republic 1 edit
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Czech Republic |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | X | X | 1 | 5 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Germany |
3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | X | X | X | 16 | 10 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Mike Bolsenbroek (1–0) LP: Michael Sobotka (0–1) Home runs: CZE: None GER: Matt Weaver (1) Attendance: 3,019 (30.2%) Umpires: HP − Ben May, 1B − Michael Ulloa, 2B − Marco Screti, 3B − Will Little Notes: Completed early due to 15–run mercy rule after 6 innings. Two outs when last run scored. Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Great Britain 12, Czech Republic 5 edit
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Great Britain |
3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 13 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Czech Republic |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Jake Esch (1–0) LP: Jan Blažek (0–1) Home runs: GBR: B.J. Hubbert (1) CZE: None Attendance: 1,806 (18.1%) Umpires: HP − Marco Screti, 1B − Stephen Barga, 2B − Liang-kuei Hsieh, 3B − Ben May Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Canada 16, Germany 7 edit
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Canada |
3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Germany |
0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Sheldon McDonald (1–0) LP: Luke Sommer (0–1) Home runs: CAN: Jimmy Van Ostrand 2 (3), Tyson Gillies (1), Jordan Lennerton (1), Rene Tosoni (1) GER: None Attendance: 4,085 (40.9%) Umpires: HP − Will Little, 1B − Ben May, 2B − Michael Ulloa, 3B − Liang-kuei Hsieh Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Germany 16, Great Britain 1 edit
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Germany |
3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | X | X | 16 | 13 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Great Britain |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | X | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Enorbel Marquez (1–0) LP: Kyle Wilson (0–1) Home runs: GER: Aaron Altherr (1), Matt Weaver (2) GBR: None Attendance: 1,452 (14.5%) Umpires: HP − Stephen Barga, 1B − Ben May, 2B − Michael Ulloa, 3B − Liang-kuei Hsieh Notes: Completed early due to 10–run mercy rule after 7 innings. Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Canada 11, Germany 1 edit
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Germany |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Canada |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | X | 11 | 12 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Andrew Albers (1–0) LP: Andre Hughes (0–1) Home runs: GER: Aaron Altherr (2) CAN: Chris Robinson (1), Adam Loewen (1), Jimmy Van Ostrand (4) Attendance: 3,120 (31.2%) Umpires: HP − Ben May, 1B − Will Little, 2B − Michael Ulloa, 3B − Marco Screti Notes: Completed early due to 10–run mercy rule after 8 innings. Two outs when last run scored. Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||