Pool C of the first round of the 2009 World Baseball Classic was held at Rogers Centre, Toronto, Canada from March 7 to 11, 2009.

Pool C was a modified double-elimination tournament. The winners for the first games matched up in the second game, while the losers faced each other in an elimination game. The winners of the elimination game then played the losers of the non-elimination game in another elimination game. The remaining two teams then played each other to determine seeding for the pool 2.

Bracket

Preliminaries

Qualifiers

Seeding

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Canada

5

–

United States

6

W1

United States

15

W2

Venezuela

6

–

Italy

0

–

Venezuela

7

W3

United States

3

W5

Venezuela

5

Lower round 1

Lower final

W4

Italy

1

L1

Canada

2

L3

Venezuela

10

L2

Italy

6

Results

• Times of March 7 are Eastern Standard Time (UTC−05:00) and times from March 8 to 11 are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−04:00).

United States 6, Canada 5

March 7 14:00 at Rogers Centre

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Canada	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	5	7	1
United States	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	0	X	6	9	0
WP: LaTroy Hawkins (1−0)   LP: Mike Johnson (0−1)   Sv: J.J. Putz (1) Home runs: CAN: Joey Votto (1), Russell Martin (1) USA: Kevin Youkilis (1), Brian McCann (1), Adam Dunn (1) Attendance: 42,314 (85.4%) Umpires: HP − Marvin Hudson, 1B − Minoru Nakamura, 2B − Dan Iassogna, 3B − Masami Yoshikawa Boxscore

Venezuela 7, Italy 0

March 7 20:00 at Rogers Centre

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	1
Venezuela	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	1	X	7	11	1
WP: Félix Hernández (1−0)   LP: Jason Grilli (0−1) Home runs: ITA: None VEN: Carlos Guillén (1), Melvin Mora (1) Attendance: 13,272 (26.8%) Umpires: HP − Jerry Meals, 1B − Masami Yoshikawa, 2B − Dan Iassogna, 3B − Carlos Rey Boxscore

United States 15, Venezuela 6

March 8 20:00 at Rogers Centre

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
United States	0	0	0	2	0	8	1	3	1	15	16	0
Venezuela	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	0	1	6	13	0
WP: Matt Lindstrom (1−0)   LP: Víctor Zambrano (0−1) Home runs: USA: Kevin Youkilis (2), Adam Dunn (2), Ryan Braun (1) VEN: Carlos Guillén (2) Attendance: 13,094 (26.4%) Umpires: HP − Dan Iassogna, 1B − Carlos Rey, 2B − Marvin Hudson, 3B − Minoru Nakamura Boxscore

Italy 6, Canada 2

March 9 18:30 at Rogers Centre

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Italy	1	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	6	10	0
Canada	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	1
WP: Dan Serafini (1−0)   LP: Vince Perkins (0−1)   Sv: Jason Grilli (1) Attendance: 12,411 (25.1%) Umpires: HP − Marvin Hudson, 1B − Minoru Nakamura, 2B − Jerry Meals, 3B − Masami Yoshikawa Boxscore

Venezuela 10, Italy 1

March 10 17:00 at Rogers Centre

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	1
Venezuela	0	0	0	4	5	0	1	0	X	10	14	0
WP: Enrique González (1−0)   LP: Tiago Da Silva (0−1) Home runs: ITA: None VEN: Bobby Abreu (1), Miguel Cabrera (1), José López (1), Ramón Hernández (1) Attendance: 10,450 (21.1%) Umpires: HP − Jerry Meals, 1B − Masami Yoshikawa, 2B − Marvin Hudson, 3B − Carlos Rey Boxscore

Venezuela 5, United States 3

March 11 18:30 at Rogers Centre

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Venezuela	0	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	0	5	12	1
United States	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	3	7	0
WP: Jan Granado (1−0)   LP: Jeremy Guthrie (0−1)   Sv: Francisco Rodriguez (1) Home runs: VEN: Gregor Blanco (1) USA: Chris Iannetta (1) Attendance: 12,358 (24.9%) Umpires: HP − Dan Iassogna, 1B − Carlos Rey, 2B − Jerry Meals, 3B − Minoru Nakamura Boxscore