2017 Asia Professional Baseball Championship

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]

2017 Asia Professional Baseball Championship

Tokyo Dome
Tournament details
Country	Japan
Dates	November 16–19
Teams	3
Final positions
Champions	Japan (1st title)
Runners-up	South Korea
Third place	Chinese Taipei
Tournament statistics
Games played	4
Attendance	104,826 (26,207 per game)
Awards
MVP	Shuta Tonosaki
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Participating teams

•  Chinese Taipei
•  Japan
•  South Korea

Rosters

Main article: 2017 Asia Professional Baseball Championship rosters

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]

Format

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.

Round-robin stage

Pos	Team	W	L	Pct.	R	RA
1	Japan	2	0	1.000	16	9
2	South Korea	1	1	.500	8	8
3	Chinese Taipei	0	2	.000	2	9

Game 1: Korea vs. Japan, November 16, 2017

November 16, 2017, 19:12 (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	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

November 17, 2017, 19:03 (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	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

November 18, 2017, 18:41 (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
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

Final

November 19, 2017, 18:11 (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	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

Final standings

Rk Team W L R RA 1  Japan 3 0 23 9 2  South Korea 1 2 8 15 3  Chinese Taipei 0 2 2 9

APBC 2017  Japan First title

Awards

The APBC 2017 organization announced MVP and All APBC 2017 team of Asia Professional Baseball Championship 2017 as follows.^[4]

MVP Award Player MVP Shuta Tonosaki

All APBC 2017 team Position Player P Kazuto Taguchi C Han Seung-taek 1B Chu Yu-hsien 2B Park Min-woo 3B Ryoma Nishikawa SS Kim Ha-seong OF Shuta Tonosaki Go Matsumoto Wang Po-jung DH Kensuke Kondoh