The South Korean baseball team maintained a 5-0 lead against Taiwan in their first Group B match of the 2026 Aichi Nagoya Asian Games, held at Okazaki Central Park in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on September 21.
The decisive moment came from a solo home run by pinch hitter Yoon Dong-hee in the eighth inning, extending South Korea's lead to five runs.
Starting pitcher Kwak Bin left the mound after six innings, having not allowed a hit and recording no runs against him, with a total of 90 pitches thrown. Taiwan started 20-year-old amateur pitcher Lin Yi-wei instead of KBO League's Hanwha Eagles player Wang Yan-cheng, but was unable to contain the South Korean batting lineup.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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