title: 2017 World Baseball Classic – Qualifier 3
text: # 2017 World Baseball Classic – Qualifier 3
  
  Qualifier 3 of the Qualifying Round of the 2017 World Baseball Classic was held at Rod Carew Stadium, Panama City, Panama from March 17 to 20, 2016.
  
  Qualifier 3 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 the winners of the Qualifier 3.
  
  ## Bracket
  
  | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Qualifier | Qualifier | Qualifier |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | – | Colombia | 9 | | | | | | |
  | – | Spain | 2 | | | | | | |
  | – | Spain | 2 | W1 | Colombia | 6 | | | |
  | | | | W2 | Panama | 3 | | | |
  | – | France | 2 | W2 | Panama | 3 | | | |
  | – | Panama | 9 | | | | | | |
  | – | Panama | 9 | | | | W4 | Colombia | 2 |
  | | | | | | | W5 | Panama | 1 |
  | Lower round 1 | Lower round 1 | Lower round 1 | Lower final | Lower final | Lower final | W5 | Panama | 1 |
  | | | | W3 | France | 4 | | | |
  | L1 | Spain | 3 | L4 | Panama | 7 | | | |
  | L2 | France | 5 | | | | | | |
  
  ## Results
  
  * All times are Eastern Standard Time (UTC−05:00).
  
  ### Colombia 9, Spain 2
  
  March 17 13:00 at Rod Carew Stadium :
  
  | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Colombia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 2 |
  | Spain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 |
  | WP: William Cuevas (1−0) LP: Sergio Pérez (0−1) Attendance: 2,145 (7.9%) Umpires: HP − Jorge Nieblas, 1B − Shane Livensparger, 2B − Max Guyll, 3B − Hua-wen Chi Boxscore |||||||||||||
  
  ### Panama 9, France 2
  
  March 17 20:00 at Rod Carew Stadium :
  
  | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | France | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
  | Panama | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 9 | 10 | 2 |
  | WP: Paolo Espino (1−0) LP: Owen Ozanich (0−1) Home runs: FRA: None PAN: Carlos Ruiz 2 (2), Javier Guerra (1) Attendance: 11,744 (43.5%) Umpires: HP − Jairo Mendoza, 1B − Max Guyll, 2B − Hua-wen Chi, 3B − Shane Livensparger Boxscore |||||||||||||
  
  ### France 5, Spain 3
  
  March 18 13:00 at Rod Carew Stadium :
  
  | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | France | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 1 |
  | Spain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 2 |
  | WP: Leonel Cespedes (1−0) LP: Richard Salazar (0−1) Sv: Pierrick Le Mestre (1) Attendance: 852 (3.2%) Umpires: HP − Hua-wen Chi, 1B − Jorge Nieblas, 2B − Max Guyll, 3B − Alex Ortiz Boxscore |||||||||||||
  
  ### Colombia 6, Panama 3
  
  March 18 20:00 at Rod Carew Stadium :
  
  | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Colombia | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 2 |
  | Panama | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
  | WP: Karl Triana (1−0) LP: Davis Romero (0−1) Home runs: COL: Reynaldo Rodriguez (1) PAN: Javier Guerra (2) Attendance: 12,559 (46.5%) Umpires: HP − Shane Livensparger, 1B − Alex Ortiz, 2B − Jorge Nieblas, 3B − Jairo Mendoza Boxscore |||||||||||||
  
  ### Panama 7, France 4
  
  March 19 20:00 at Rod Carew Stadium :
  
  | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Panama | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 1 |
  | France | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 3 |
  | WP: Angel Cuan (1−0) LP: Jonathan Mottay (0−1) Sv: Manny Corpas (1) Home runs: PAN: None FRA: Rene Leveret (1) Attendance: 2,016 (7.5%) Umpires: HP − Max Guyll, 1B − Jairo Mendoza, 2B − Alex Ortiz, 3B − Jorge Nieblas Boxscore |||||||||||||
  
  ### Colombia 2, Panama 1
  
  March 20 18:00 at Rod Carew Stadium :
  
  | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Panama | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
  | Colombia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | X | 2 | 7 | 0 |
  | WP: Carlos Díaz (1−0) LP: Manny Corpas (0−1) Sv: Horacio Acosta (1) Home runs: PAN: None COL: Dilson Herrera (1) Attendance: 6,204 (23.0%) Umpires: HP − Alex Ortiz, 1B − Hua-wen Chi, 2B − Shane Livensparger, 3B − Jairo Mendoza Boxscore |||||||||||||
  