2013 World Baseball Classic
| Tournament details | |
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| Host countries |
 Japan Puerto Rico Taiwan United States
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| Dates | March 2–19 |
| Teams | 16 (from 4 continents) |
| Defending champions |
Japan (2009) |
| Final positions | |
Champions
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 Dominican Republic (1st title)
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Runner-up
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Puerto Rico
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Third place
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Japan
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| Fourth place |
 Netherlands
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| Tournament statistics | |
| Games played | 39 |
| Attendance | 781,438 (20,037 per game) |
| Most Valuable Player |
Robinson Canó
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The 2013 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball competition, held from March 2 to March 19, 2013. This was the third iteration of the WBC, following the two previous tournaments, held in 2006 and 2009.
Unlike the two previous WBCs, which consisted of the same sixteen countries, only the twelve countries that won at least one game in the 2009 WBC were guaranteed a berth in the main tournament. The automatic qualifiers were Australia, China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, South Korea, the United States, and Venezuela. Four qualification brackets were held in late 2012 and respectively won by Canada, Taiwan, Spain, and Brazil, who joined the WBC as the final four teams (the latter two making their Classic debuts).
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