READ: Follow Inquirer Sports’ special coverage of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 South Korea defeated Japan 3-1 in the baseball final at Toyohashi Municipal Stadium in Aichi Prefecture on Sunday, winning its fifth consecutive Asian Games gold medal. The victory gave Korea its seventh Asian Games baseball title overall and extended a championship streak that began at Guangzhou 2010 and continued through Incheon 2014, Jakarta-Palembang 2018 and Hangzhou 2022. It also gave Korea payback for a 5-0 loss to Japan in the Super Round two days earlier, when the Korean lineup was shut out by a Japanese squad made up largely […]...

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