2019 Asian Baseball Championship
{{Infobox international baseball tournament
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| country = Taiwan
| dates = October 14–20, 2019
| num_teams = 8
| defending_champion = Japan
| prev_year = 2017
| medal_type = asia
| champion = Chinese Taipei
| num_championships = 5
| second = JPN
| third = CHN
| fourth = KOR
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| prevseason= 2017
| nextseason= 2023
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{{main|Asian Baseball Championship}}
The 29th Asian Baseball Championship was the international baseball competition for Asian men's national teams. It was held in Taichung and Yunlin, Taiwan, on October 14 to 20, 2019.{{cite web|url=http://www.baseballasia.org/BFA/include/index.php?Page=2&news01=8916009335d9bf10044f3e|title=BFA launched the game schedule of Asian Championship|publisher=Baseball Federation of Asia|date=8 October 2019}} Chinese Taipei and China, the top two finishers, excluding Japan, qualified to compete in the Olympic Final Qualifying Tournament which will take place in March or April 2020.
Qualified teams
- {{bb|TPE}} – Host
- {{bb|JPN}}
- {{bb|KOR}}
- {{bb|CHN}}
- {{bb|HKG}}
- {{bb|PHI}} - 2018 East Asia Cup winner
- {{bb|PAK}} - 2018 West Asia Cup finalist
- {{bb|SRI}} - 2018 West Asia Cup finalist
Group stage
| class="wikitable" align=right | |
| width=10px bgcolor=aaffaa| | Qualified to Super round |
| width=10px bgcolor=ccccff| | Qualified to consolation round |
The first stage consisted of each team playing against each other team in its group once.
=Group A=
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! width="22%" | Teams ! width="7%" | {{Tooltip | W | Wins}} ! width="7%" | {{Tooltip | L | Loss}} ! width="8%" | Pct. ! width="7%" | GB ! width="8%" | {{Tooltip | R | Runs scored}} ! width="8%" | {{Tooltip | RA | Runs allowed}} ! width="7%" | {{Tooltip | HTH | 1st Tiebreaker}} | |||||||
| bgcolor=#aaffaa
| align=left | {{bb|JPN}} | 3 | 0 | 1.000 | — | 32 | 0 | |
| bgcolor=#aaffaa
| align=left | {{bb|TPE}} | 2 | 1 | .667 | 1 | 34 | 4 | |
| bgcolor=#ccccff
| align=left | {{bb|HKG}} | 1 | 2 | .333 | 2 | 7 | 33 | |
| bgcolor=#ccccff
| align=left | {{bb|SRI}} | 0 | 3 | .000 | 3 | 1 | 37 |
{{bb res start}}
{{bb res|October 14|18:30|{{bb-rt|HKG}}| 2–17 |{{bb|TPE}}|5|Intercontinental Baseball Stadium|1:40|889|}}
{{bb res|October 15|12:00|{{bb-rt|SRI}}| 1–5 |{{bb|HKG}}||Taichung Baseball Field|2:13|220|}}
{{bb res|October 15|18:30|{{bb-rt|JPN}}| 2–0 |{{bb|TPE}}||Douliu Baseball Stadium|2:54|0|}}
{{bb res|October 16|18:30|{{bb-rt|TPE}}| 17–0 |{{bb|SRI}}|5|Douliu Baseball Stadium|1:38|765|}}
{{bb res|October 16|18:30|{{bb-rt|HKG}}| 0–15 |{{bb|JPN}}|5|Taichung Baseball Field|1:41|0|}}
{{bb res|October 17|12:00|{{bb-rt|SRI}}| 0–15 |{{bb|JPN}}|5|Taichung Baseball Field|1:30|0||}}
|}
=Group B=
| class="wikitable sortable" width="57%" style="text-align:center;"
! width="22%" | Teams ! width="7%" | {{Tooltip | W | Wins}} ! width="7%" | {{Tooltip | L | Loss}} ! width="8%" | Pct. ! width="7%" | GB ! width="8%" | {{Tooltip | R | Runs scored}} ! width="8%" | {{Tooltip | RA | Runs allowed}} ! width="15%" | {{Tooltip | HTH (TQB) | Head-to-Head (Team's Quality Balance) }} | |||||||
| bgcolor=#aaffaa
| align=left | {{bb|CHN}} | 2 | 1 | .667 | — | 16 | 6 | 1–1 |
| bgcolor=#aaffaa
| align=left | {{bb|KOR}} | 2 | 1 | .667 | — | 28 | 8 | 1–1 |
| bgcolor=#ccccff
| align=left | {{bb|PHI}} | 2 | 1 | .667 | — | 14 | 12 | 1–1 |
| bgcolor=#ccccff
| align=left | {{bb|PAK}} | 0 | 3 | .000 | 2 | 2 | 34 |
{{bb res start}}
{{bb res|October 14|12:00|{{bb-rt|KOR}}| 4–5 |{{bb|CHN}}|10|Intercontinental Baseball Stadium|3:24|200|}}
{{bb res|October 14|13:00|{{bb-rt|PHI}}| 11–0 |{{bb|PAK}}|7|Taichung Baseball Field|2:30|0|}}
{{bb res|October 15|12:00|{{bb-rt|PAK}}| 1–12 |{{bb|KOR}}|7|Douliu Baseball Stadium|2:17|350|}}
{{bb res|October 15|18:30|{{bb-rt|CHN}}| 0–1 |{{bb|PHI}}||Taichung Baseball Field|2:30|0|}}
{{bb res|October 16|12:00|{{bb-rt|PHI}}| 2–12 |{{bb|KOR}}|7|Douliu Baseball Stadium|2:20|166|}}
{{bb res|October 16|12:00|{{bb-rt|PAK}}| 1–11 |{{bb|CHN}}|7|Taichung Baseball Field|2:08|250|}}
|}
Super round and Consolation
=Consolation=
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! width="22%" | Teams ! width="7%" | {{Tooltip | W | Wins}} ! width="7%" | {{Tooltip | L | Loss}} ! width="8%" | Pct. ! width="7%" | GB ! width="8%" | {{Tooltip | R | Runs scored}} ! width="8%" | {{Tooltip | RA | Runs allowed}} ! width="7%" | {{Tooltip | HTH | 1st Tiebreaker}} | |||||||
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| align=left | {{bb|PHI}} | 4 | 1 | .800 | – | 31 | 13 | |
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| align=left | {{bb|HKG}} | 2 | 3 | .400 | 2 | 24 | 50 | |
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| align=left | {{bb|SRI}} | 1 | 4 | .200 | 3 | 12 | 45 | |
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| align=left | {{bb|PAK}} | 0 | 5 | .000 | 4 | 10 | 61 |
{{bb res start}}
{{bb res|October 18|12:00|{{bb-rt|SRI}}| 10–1 |{{bb|PAK}}||Taichung Baseball Field|3:04|130|}}
{{bb res|October 18|18:30|{{bb-rt|HKG}}| 0–10 |{{bb|PHI}}|8|Taichung Baseball Field|2:05|239|}}
{{bb res|October 19|12:00|{{bb-rt|PAK}}| 7–17 |{{bb|HKG}}|7|Taichung Baseball Field|2:23|167|}}
{{bb res|October 19|18:30|{{bb-rt|SRI}}| 1–7 |{{bb|PHI}}||Taichung Baseball Field|2:23|186|}}
|}
=Super round=
| class="wikitable" align=right | |
| width=10px bgcolor=aaffaa| | Qualified for gold medal game |
| width=10px bgcolor=ccccff| | Qualified for bronze medal game |
| class="wikitable sortable" width="57%" style="text-align:center;"
! width="22%" | Teams ! width="7%" | {{Tooltip | W | Wins}} ! width="7%" | {{Tooltip | L | Loss}} ! width="8%" | Pct. ! width="7%" | GB ! width="8%" | {{Tooltip | R | Runs scored}} ! width="8%" | {{Tooltip | RA | Runs allowed}} ! width="7%" | {{Tooltip | HTH | 1st Tiebreaker}} | |||||||
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| align=left | {{bb|JPN}} | 5 | 0 | 1.000 | – | 54 | 4 | |
| bgcolor=#aaffaa
| align=left | {{bb|TPE}} | 4 | 1 | .800 | 1 | 51 | 7 | |
| bgcolor=#ccccff
| align=left | {{bb|CHN}} | 2 | 3 | .400 | 3 | 19 | 27 | 1–1 |
| bgcolor=#ccccff
| align=left | {{bb|KOR}} | 2 | 3 | .400 | 3 | 32 | 26 | 1–1 |
{{bb res start}}
{{bb res|October 18|12:00|{{bb-rt|CHN}}| 1–11 |{{bb|JPN}}|7|Intercontinental Baseball Stadium|2:11|346|}}
{{bb res|October 18|18:30|{{bb-rt|KOR}}| 1–7 |{{bb|TPE}}||Intercontinental Baseball Stadium|3:30|1,250|}}
{{bb res|October 19|12:00|{{bb-rt|KOR}}| 3–11 |{{bb|JPN}}||Intercontinental Baseball Stadium|3:01|362|}}
{{bb res|October 19|18:30|{{bb-rt|TPE}}| 10–2 |{{bb|CHN}}||Intercontinental Baseball Stadium|3:10|0|}}
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=Bronze medal game=
{{bb res start}}
{{bb res|October 20|12:00|{{bb-rt|KOR}}| 6–8 |{{bb|CHN}}||Intercontinental Baseball Stadium|||}}
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=Gold medal game=
{{bb res start}}
{{bb res|October 20|18:30|{{bb-rt|TPE}}| 5–4 |{{bb|JPN}}||Intercontinental Baseball Stadium|||}}
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=Final standing=
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| width=10px bgcolor=ccffcc| | Qualification to Olympic Final Qualifying Tournament |
| width=10px bgcolor=ccccff| | Already qualified to 2020 Summer Olympics as hosts |
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!width=40|Rank !width=180|Team | |
| bgcolor=ccffcc
| {{Gold1}} | align=left|{{bb|TPE}} |
| bgcolor=ccccff
| {{Silver2}} | align=left|{{bb|JPN}} |
| bgcolor=ccffcc
| {{Bronze3}} | align=left|{{bb|CHN}} |
| 4 | align=left|{{bb|KOR}} |
| 5 | align=left|{{bb|PHI}} |
| 6 | align=left|{{bb|HKG}} |
| 7 | align=left|{{bb|SRI}} |
| 8 | align=left|{{bb|PAK}} |
See also
References
{{reflist}}
{{Asian Baseball Championship}}
{{International Baseball}}