USA Baseball the Dominicans and Puerto Rico. Team USA went 4–0 abroad, outscoring their opponents, 31–3. In 2013, the 15U National Team traveled to Baranquilla, Colombia, for the COPABE Pan American "AA" Championships, where it brought home the gold medal for the first time. En route to defeating Cuba, 6–1, in the championship game, the 15U squad amassed a perfect record, finishing 8–0 in the event. Competing in its first World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) U-15 Baseball World Cup in 2014, Team USA traveled to Mazatlan, Mexico, and went 9–1 overall and claimed the silver medal. The 2014 campaign also saw the
2009 World Baseball Classic – Championship the game to the bottom of the tenth. Darvish made short work of South Korea, capping with a strikeout of Keun-woo Jeong to clinch Japan's successful defense of their 2006 championship. Japan's Daisuke Matsuzaka was awarded the tournament MVP for the second consecutive time, with a 3−0 record and 2.45 ERA. 2009 World Baseball Classic – Championship 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