Korean Baseball has Never Done Well

[Asian Games] Korean Baseball has Never Done Well due to Being Held Back by Taiwan

There are very few cases where Korean baseball has achieved good results in international competitions due to being held back by Taiwan.

The 2003 Sapporo Asian Championships, where qualification for the 2004 Athens Olympics was at stake, was the starting point of the bad relationship.

Korea lost 4-5 to Taiwan in the 10th overtime match and failed to advance to Athens. 온라인카지노

The 2006 Doha Asian Games also remained in baseball fans' memories as a 'disaster'.

In this tournament, in which six countries participated and the winner was determined through a full league, Korea lost 2-4 to Taiwan, instantly destroying the excitement of advancing to the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) earlier that year.

If Korea bows down to Taiwan, Korean baseball will suffer endlessly.

On the other hand, if they defeat Chinese Taipei in their first game, they will gain confidence and do well.

Tournament officials are well aware of the strange relationship between the two countries, so they make sure to place the two teams on important routes to increase box office success.

At the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games and the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, Korean baseball won a gold medal by beating Chinese Taipei in the preliminaries and beating them again in the finals.

The 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games are an extreme exception.

Like on this day, they were tied up by Taiwan's unknown pitcher and lost 1-2, so they started with one loss in the super round, but thanks to Japan catching Taiwan, the three teams were tied with 2 wins and 1 loss, and according to the relevant regulations, Korea and Japan advanced to the finals.

Korea beat Japan and won its third consecutive Asian Games title.

National team Coach Ryu Joong-il and players looked forward to a 'déjà vu' from five years ago after losing 0-4 to Chinese Taipei in the second round of the group stage of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games held at Stadium 1 of Shaoxing Baseball and Softball Sports Center in China on the 2nd.

‘One chance will come’ was the common thought of the players after the loss.

To do so, we must defeat Japan and China in the Super Round and hope for a miracle in which Japan defeats Taiwan.

However, it is unclear whether the Korean batting line, which is evaluated as the 'weakest' batting line, can hit the sophisticated Japanese pitchers' balls and lead to a victory.

Just as Taiwan diligently studied Korea, Japan, whose trademark is 'microscopic analysis', must have examined Korea in even more detail.

Coach Ryu Joong-il acknowledged the development of Taiwanese baseball, saying, "Taiwanese players have studied a lot in the American professional baseball minor league, batters are not fooled by breaking balls, and the defense has become solid, so they are now a team to watch out for."

Noh Si-hwan, who played as the third hitter, blamed himself, saying, "The pitches of the Taiwanese pitcher and others were generally fast, had good power, and had good control, so they did not mishit," and added, "That made it even more difficult for the hitters.

It was because of poor preparation."

Taiwan's baseball team is slowly making progress to the extent that the Korean national baseball team can feel it in order to break away from the 3rd place in Asia, and Japan's skills are so solid that they won their third WBC title this year.

The game on this day, in which the team was completely defeated by Chinese Taipei without being able to use their power in a two-stroke, was a sad moment that once again exposed the current state of Korean baseball, which was unable to move forward but took a step backwards and hoped for a fluke.