2006 Intercontinental Cup (baseball)

Round robin

The eight teams will play a round-robin format in which they will each play the other teams once. This means that each team will play seven games in this first phase of the tournament over the course of eight days.

1 Game called due to bad weather condition.

2 Dutch manager ejected in the top of the eleventh for obscenities in argument with an umpire.

• TF = Taichung Baseball Field
• IBC = Intercontinental Baseball Stadium

Table

:DI=Innings played on defense :RA/9DI=Runs allowed for every nine defensive innings played

• Tiebreaker
  • head-to-head
  • RA/9DI
• Notes
  • Cuba wins tiebreaker over Japan based on head-to-head result
  • South Korea wins tiebreaker over Italy based on head-to-head result

Classification round

The teams that finish in fifth through eighth place in the round robin will face off in the consolation round. All consolation round matches will be played at Taichung Baseball Field.

|November 18 (13:00) |[[Image:Flag of Italy.svg|20px|]] Italy |8 |[[Image:Flag of South Korea.svg|20px|]] South Korea |3 |November 18 (18:30) |[[Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg|20px|]] Philippines |0 |[[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|20px|]] Australia |17 |November 19 (15:00) |[[Image:Flag of Italy.svg|20px|]] Italy|2|[[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|20px|]] Australia |3 |November 19 (10:00) |[[Image:Flag of South Korea.svg|20px|]] South Korea|5|[[Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg|20px|]] Philippines|1

Medal round

The top four teams from the round robin will enter the medal round of the competition. All medal round games will be played at the Intercontinental Baseball Stadium.

|November 18 (13:00) |[[Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg|20px|]] The Netherlands |3 |[[Image:Flag of Japan.svg|20px|]] Japan |0 |November 18 (18:30) |[[Image:Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg|20px|]] Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) |4|[[Image:Flag of Cuba.svg|20px|]] Cuba|5 |November 19 (18:30) |[[Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg|20px|]] The Netherlands|3|[[Image:Flag of Cuba.svg|20px|]] Cuba|6 |November 19 (13:00) |[[Image:Flag of Japan.svg|20px|]] Japan|0|[[Image:Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg|20px|]]Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)|4

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Final standings

Trivia

• This tournament marks the official opening of Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium
• Asia's big three teams are all short-handed as 2006 Taiwan Series champions La New Bears, Japan Series champions Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, and South Korea champions Samsung Lions are all participating in the 2006 Konami Cup Asia Series in Tokyo, Japan, which started on the same day.