Asian Games Baseball
KORSouth Korea
VSTPEChinese Taipei
South Korea
No injuries
Group B. Starter Kwak Been (Doosan, 11-7, league-best 2.26 ERA, strikeout leader). No injuries — manager Ryu Ji-hyun: "no worries at all about injuries" (concerned about the field condition). Kwak Been, Moon Bo-gyeong, Noh Si-hwan picked as wild cards; Ahn Hyun-min, Jung Woo-joo and others left off (reasons undisclosed)
Chinese Taipei
No injuries
Top 24-man roster incl. Cheng Tsung-che (Red Sox system), Hsu Jo-hsi (NPB), Wang Yen-cheng (Hanwha). Starter is Lin Yi-wei (20, RHP, Taiwan Cooperative Bank), not the expected Wang Yen-cheng. No injuries