S. Korea Beats Japan for 5th Consecutive Baseball Gold Medal
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S. Korea beats Japan for 5th consecutive baseball gold medal
TOYOHASHI, Japan — South Korea grabbed its fifth consecutive Asian Games gold medal in baseball on Sunday, with a 3-1 victory over the host country Japan. Starter Gwak Been tossed 6 1/3 innings of one-run ball, and the dormant offense woke up just in time on this rainy night at Toyohashi Municipal Baseball Stadium in Toyohashi, some 85 kilometers southeast of Nagoya. With the score tied at 1-1 in the top of the eighth inning, Kim Do-yeong delive…
(Toyohashi, Japan = Yonhap News) Reporters Lee Dae-ho and Kim Dong-han = The South Korean baseball team has won its fifth consecutive gold medal at the Asian Games.
It was the promised eighth inning. Korean baseball has traditionally staged dramatic comebacks in the eighth, and the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games was no exception. The national baseball team, led by Manager Ryu Ji-hyun, defeated Japan 3-1 in the final held at Toyohashi Municipal Baseball Stadium on the 27th. This followed a loss during the Super Round.
[OSEN=Toyohashi (Japan), Reporter Park Jun-hyung] On the 27th, the baseball final between Korea and Japan at the '2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games' took place at Toyohashi Citizens Stadium in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The Korean national baseball team advanced to the final with a victory against Taiwan in the group stage and a 1-1 record in the Super Round. This was a rematch against Japan, whom they had lost 0-5 to in the Super Round. If the nation…
The Korean national baseball team has achieved its fifth consecutive Asian Games gold medal. Led by manager Ryu Ji-hyun, the team defeated Japan 3-1 in the final of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games baseball tournament held at Toyohashi Citizens Baseball Stadium in Aichi Prefecture on the 27th. Korea, which had suffered a crushing 0-5 defeat against a Japanese team composed of amateur players in the first game of the Super Round on the 25th, sec…
The Korean national baseball team achieved five consecutive victories at the Asian Games.
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