[Sports Trend] 2023 APBC Asia Professional Baseball Championship Korea-Japan match

 The Asian Professional Baseball Championship APBC is an international baseball competition in which players from four Asian countries, including Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia, participate under the age of 24 or have been in the professional league for three years or less. Starting in 2017, the game will be held once every four years around November. This is the second tournament of the Asian Professional Baseball Championship. It was originally supposed to be held in 2021, but was postponed due to COVID-19 and was held in 2023. Afterwards, the participation of the Australian national baseball team was confirmed, increasing the number of participating countries to four.

2023 Asia Professional Baseball Championship ​Final

Korea vs Japan

November 19, 2023, 18:00 Tokyo Dome

 

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*Source_ Chosun Ilbo>Sports>Baseball>Reporter Kang Ho-cheol

Korea lost to Japan after a close match.
The Korean baseball team suffered a painful 3-4 defeat to the host country, Japan, in the finals of the 2nd Asia Professional Baseball Championship (APBC) held at the Tokyo Dome in Japan on the 19th after 10 overtimes, and ended up in second place.

• A disappointing match... Korean baseball loses to Japan again

*Source_Seoul Economic Daily>Culture/Sports>Sports>Reporter Seo Jae-won

Kwak Bin (Doosan Bears), who had the important responsibility of starting, pitched 5 innings, allowing 5 hits (1 home run), 3 walks, striking out 6, and allowing 1 run, but Choi Seung-yong, the second pitcher who took over the mound in the bottom of the 6th inning, gave up a run, resulting in a 2-2 tie. done. The two teams, who were tied 2-2 during the regular innings, entered into a game of attacking with runners on first and second base with no outs. Korea took a 3-2 lead in the top of the 10th inning with 2 outs and runners on third base when Yoon Dong-il hit a timely hit, but in the bottom of the 10th inning, Korea gave up a sacrifice fly and a walk-off hit in succession, resulting in a 3-4 loss.

In the confrontation between Korean and Japanese professional baseball players, Korea's last victory was in 2015 and 8 consecutive losses as a result of APBC in 2023, but realistic sports data must be accumulated and analyzed.

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