2009 World Baseball Classic championship

2009 World Baseball Classic Final

Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles
Japan South Korea 5 3
Ended after the 10th inning Japan scored 2–0 in extra innings
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E Japan 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 5 15 0 South Korea 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 5 1
Date	March 23, 2009 (2009-03-23)
Venue	Dodger Stadium
City	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Managers	Tatsunori Hara (Japan) Kim In-sik (South Korea)
Umpires	HP: Derryl Cousins 1B: Carlos Rey 2B: Ron Kulpa 3B: Willie Rodriguez LF: Paul Emmel RF: Paul Hyham
MVP	Daisuke Matsuzaka (Japan)
Attendance	54,846
Time of game	6:39 p.m. PDT
Television	Multiple
Radio	Multiple
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Championship Round of the 2009 World Baseball Classic was held at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California, United States, from March 21 to 23, 2009.

Championship round was a single-elimination tournament. In the final, the team with the higher winning percentage of games in the tournament were to be the home team. If the teams competing in the final had identical winning percentages in the tournament, then World Baseball Classic, Inc. (WBCI) would conduct a coin flip or draw to determine the home team.