In the Nagoya Asian Games baseball gold medal game, South Korea's ace Guo Bin was once tied by Japan in the 7th inning. However, in the 8th inning, Kim Tainaga and Mun Hokyung scored the winning points at the right time. The final score was 3:1 to complete the unprecedented 5th consecutive championship. The Japanese team missed out on the baseball gold medal for 32 years.
The South Korean team scored first in the 2nd inning when Yoon Dong-hee hit a double and Moon Hyun-bin hit a timely hit to score the first run. Even though there was a lot of offense in the early stages of the game, the South Korean team also used a large assist strategy of four bunts in the first 6 rounds, but the results were not good. Including strong hits, both Yoon Dong-hee and Kim Ji-chan failed to hit the ball. There were as many as 12 bases in the first 7 innings.
The firepower of his teammates failed to support him. Guo Bin showed his ace skills in South Korea in the first 6 rounds, and was defeated by Shohei Mizutani in the 4th inning. However, a crisis appeared in the 7th inning. Ryosuke Oizawa and Shohei Mizutani scored first and second. On the base, Yuki Sato hit a timely hit and led the team to equalize the score. At the same time, he knocked Guo Bin out. He burned 111 pitches, allowed 4 hits in 6.1 innings, had 9 strikeouts and 2 bad balls, and allowed 1 run regardless of victory or defeat.
Japan's starting pitcher, Arata Higuchi, pitched 7 scoreless innings against South Korea on the 25th. He only took one day off to fight against South Korea. He scored a total of 60 pitches in 3 innings, struck out 4 times, and exited the game with only 1 run. The Japanese team started the round of battle, with Soichiro Kayo and Yoshiki Buchigami each not losing points in 2 games.
In the 8th inning, the Japanese team sent Issei Kondo, who had started against Taiwan yesterday, to back up the team. South Korea's Kim Ji-zan hit a double, and then relied on bunts and doubles to occupy first and third base. Park Jun-soon's grounder at third base caused third base runner Kim Ji-zan to be pinched between third base and home plate. However, Kim Ji-zan was very skillful and reached out to touch the fielder who was not holding the ball before being hit to protest against the Japanese team's obstruction of the base run.
However, the referee still ruled that it was a strikeout. Even though the South Korean team's head coach Ryu Ji-hyun came on the field to protest violently against obstructing the base running, the referee and the base judges gathered in a circle to discuss and upheld the original verdict, allowing Ryu Ji-hyun to return to the dugout dissatisfied. However, the South Korean team still relied on the timely hits of Kim Daoyong and Moon Bojing to score the winning two runs in a single inning, completing its fifth consecutive championship since 2010.
