2006 WBC Tournament

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Originally written by GRL

The 2006 World Baseball Classic served to inaugurate this series of tournaments.


These listings are based on a broadcast schedule dating to shortly before the tournament- I have not been able to find a systematic listing indicating changes, though I have been able to determine at least one based on one of the recordings online of these games.

Several notes of importance:

1) Quite a few games in the First Round (and one each from each pool in the Second Round) were only aired on ESPN Deportes in the United States- for the moment, I have chosen to not include these games in this listing.

2) The schedule I have lists various games as being "syndicated" (presumably, what would become known later as the world feed)- I have noted all games on the schedule with that status, and welcome further information concerning them.

3) Many of these games aired on tape-delay- and I've seen the claim made that at least some of these tape-delayed games were edited.

Any help that any of you can provide concerning announcers shall be greatly appreciated- I wasn't able to find the complete listing I found for the 2009 World Baseball Classic, and the usual sources for information were somewhat slim in their pickings.

And now, the games:

First Round

Pool A- Tokyo, Japan

Friday 3/3:

South Korea-Chinese Taipei, 1:30 AM (tape- 9:30 start), ESPN2. Jon Sciambi, Jeff Brantley (?) (Syndicated)

Japan-China, 4:30 AM, ESPN2. Jon Sciambi, Jeff Brantley

Saturday 3/4:

South Korea-China, 12:30 AM (tape- 9:00 start), ESPN2. Jon Sciambi, Jeff Brantley (?) (Syndicated)

Japan-Chinese Taipei, 4:00 AM, ESPN2. Jon Sciambi, Jeff Brantley

Sunday 3/5:

Chinese Taipei-China, 2:00 AM (tape- 9:00 start), ESPN2. Jon Sciambi, Jeff Brantley (?) (Syndicated)

South Korea-Japan, 4:00 AM, ESPN2. Jon Sciambi, Jeff Brantley

Pool B- Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona

Tuesday 3/7:

United States-Mexico (at Phoenix), 4, ESPN2. Dave O'Brien, Rick Sutcliffe

Wednesday 3/8:

Canada-South Africa (at Scottsdale), 2:30 AM (tape- 9:00 start), ESPN2. unknown, Steve Stone (Syndicated)

Canada-United States (at Phoenix), 4, ESPN2. Dave O'Brien, Rick Sutcliffe

Friday 3/10:

Mexico-Canada (at Phoenix), 3:00 AM (tape- 8:00 start), ESPN. (Syndicated)

Saturday 3/11:

United States-South Africa (at Scottsdale), 3:00 AM (tape- 3:00 start), ESPN. Greg Papa, Steve Stone (Syndicated)

Pool C- San Juan, Puerto Rico

Wednesday 3/8:

Puerto Rico-Panama, 3:00 AM (tape- 7:00 start), ESPN. Brian Kenny, Steve Phillips, Jose Mota (Syndicated)

Cuba-Panama, 1, ESPN2. Gary Thorne, Orel Hershiser

Thursday 3/9:

Puerto Rico-Netherlands, 2:30 AM (tape- 7:30 start), ESPN2. Brian Kenny, Steve Phillips, Jose Mota (Syndicated).

Saturday 3/11:

Puerto Rico-Cuba, 2:00 AM (tape- 7:30 start), ESPN2. Gary Thorne, Orel Hershiser, Orestes Destrade, Jose Mota (Syndicated)

Pool D- Lake Buena Vista, Florida

Tuesday 3/7:

Dominican Republic-Venezuela, 1, ESPN. Karl Ravech, John Kruk, Harold Reynolds, Peter Gammons

Friday 3/10:

Dominican Republic-Italy, 2:00 AM (tape- 1:00 start), ESPN2. (Syndicated)

Round 2:

Pool 1- Anaheim, California

Sunday 3/12:

United States-Japan, 4, ESPN2. Dave O'Brien, Eric Karros, Rick Sutcliffe, Duke Castiglione

South Korea-Mexico, 11, ESPN2. Dave O'Brien, Eric Karros, Rick Sutcliffe, Duke Castiglione

JIP right before second pitch of game

Tuesday 3/14:

South Korea-United States, 2:00 AM (tape- 10:00 start), ESPN2. PBP unknown, Eric Karros (?) (Syndicated)

Wednesday 3/15:

Japan-Mexico, 1:30 AM (tape- 7:00 start), ESPN2. (Syndicated)

Thursday 3/16:

South Korea-Japan, 1:00 AM (tape- 10:00 start), ESPN2. Dave O'Brien, color unknown. (Syndicated)

Mexico-United States, 7:30, ESPN. Jon Miller, Eric Karros, Rick Sutcliffe, Duke Castiglione

Pool 2- San Juan, Puerto Rico:

Sunday 3/12:

Puerto Rico- Dominican Republic, 8, ESPN2. Gary Thorne, Orel Hershiser, Orestes Destrade, Jose Mota

Monday 3/13:

Cuba-Venezuela, 2:00 AM (tape- 1:00 start), ESPN2. (Syndicated)

Dominican Republic-Cuba, 1, ESPN. Gary Thorne, Orel Hershiser, Orestes Destrade, Jose Mota

Venezuela-Puerto Rico, 7, ESPN. Gary Thorne, Orel Hershiser, Orestes Destrade, Jose Mota

Tuesday 3/14:

Dominican Republic-Venezuela, 7, ESPN2. Gary Thorne, Orel Hershiser, Orestes Destrade, Jose Mota

Finals- San Diego, California:

Saturday 3/18:

Cuba-Dominican Republic, 3, ESPN. Jon Miller, Joe Morgan, Peter Gammons, Jose Mota

Japan-South Korea, 10, ESPN. Jon Miller, Joe Morgan, Peter Gammons, Jose Mota

Monday 3/20:

Japan-Cuba, 9 (JIP- ND/MICH NIT game ran late), ESPN. Jon Miller, Joe Morgan, Peter Gammons, Jose Mota