Draft:2023 Asia Professional Baseball Championship

2023 Asia Professional Baseball Championship
Tournament details
CountryJapan
DatesNovember 16–19
Teams4
Final positions
Champions Japan (2nd title)
Runner-up South Korea
Third place Chinese Taipei
Fourth place Australia
Tournament statistics
Games played8
Attendance162,811 (20,351 per game)
MVPJapan Makoto Kadowaki
← 2017

The 2023 Asia Professional Baseball Championship (APBC 2023) was the second edition of APBC, and was held in Japan from November 16 to 19.

Participating teams edit

Format edit

Each of the four 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.

Round-robin stage edit

Pos Team W L T Pct. R RA Qualification
1   Japan 3 0 0 1.000 16 1 Final
2   South Korea 2 1 0 .667 10 5
3   Chinese Taipei 1 2 0 .333 7 10 Third place game
4   Australia 0 3 0 .000 2 19
November 16, 2023, 12:00 (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
  Australia 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 7 3
  South Korea 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1X 3 8 0
WP: Jung Hai-young (1-0)   LP: Daniel McGrath (0-1)
Home runs:
AUS: Alex Hall (1)
KOR: None
Attendance: 3,348   Game time: 3 hours 45 minutes
Boxscore
November 16, 2023, 19:03 (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 10 0
  Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
WP: Haruka Nemoto (1-0)   LP: Gu Lin Ruei-yang (0-1)
Home runs:
JPN: Shōta Morishita (1)
TPE: None
Attendance: 24,288   Game time: 3 hours 15 minutes
Boxscore
November 17, 2023, 12:00 (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
  Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 9 0
  Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
WP: Chiu Chun-wei (1-0)   LP: Daniel McGrath (0-2)
Home runs:
TPE: Lin Ching-kai (1)
AUS: None
Attendance: 3,523   Game time: 3 hours 11 minutes
Boxscore
November 17, 2023, 19:03 (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  South Korea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 0
  Japan 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 X 2 9 1
WP: Chihiro Sumida (1-0)   LP: Lee Eui-lee (0-1)   Sv: Kazuto Taguchi (1)
Home runs:
KOR: Kim Whee-jip (1)
JPN: Chusei Mannami (1)
Attendance: 35,223   Game time: 2 hours 43 minutes
Boxscore
November 18, 2023, 12:03 (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  Japan 1 0 2 1 0 1 3 2 - 10 13 0
  Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 1 3
WP: Takahisa Hayakawa (1-0)   LP: Jack Bushell (0-1)
Home runs:
JPN: None
AUS: None
Attendance: 37,221   Game time: 3 hours 6 minutes
Boxscore
November 18, 2023, 19:01 (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 2
  South Korea 1 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 X 6 10 1
WP: Won Tae-in (1-0)   LP: Wang Yan-cheng (0-1)
Home runs:
TPE: Liu Ji-hong (1)
KOR: None
Attendance: 9,603   Game time: 3 hours 29 minutes
Boxscore

Third place game edit

November 19, 2023, 11:03 (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  Australia 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 7 1
  Chinese Taipei 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1X 4 7 0
WP: Lin Chao-en (1-0)   LP: Coen Wynne (0-1)
Home runs:
AUS: None
TPE: None
Attendance: 7,722   Game time: 2 hours 56 minutes
Boxscore

Final edit

November 19, 2023, 18:09 (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
  South Korea 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 9 0
  Japan 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2X 4 8 1
WP: Jung Hai-young (1-0)   LP: Shugo Maki (1-1)
Home runs:
KOR: None
JPN: Shugo Maki (1)
Attendance: 41,883   Game time: 3 hours 50 minutes
Boxscore

Final standings edit

Awards edit

References edit

External links edit