Baseball at the 1998 Asian Games

Baseball was one of the many sports which was held at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand beginning on 7 December 1998.

Baseball at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Queen Sirikit Stadium
Dates	7–16 December 1998
Nations	6

Schedule

P

Preliminary round

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	7th Mon	8th Tue	9th Wed	10th Thu	11th Fri	12th Sat	13th Sun	14th Mon	15th Tue	16th Wed
Men	P	P	P		P	P	P		½	F

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	South Korea Baek Jae-ho Chang Young-kyoon Cho In-sung Choi Won-ho Hong Sung-heon Hwang Woo-gu Jin Kab-yong Kang Bong-kyu Kang Chul-min Kang Hyuk Kim Byung-hyun Kim Dong-joo Kim Won-hyong Kyung Hun-ho Lee Byung-kyu Lim Chang-yong Park Chan-ho Park Han-yi Park Jae-hong Seo Jae-weong Shim Jae-hak Shin Myung-chul	Japan Shinnosuke Abe Kokichi Akune Mitsutaka Goto Shoji Hirota Tomohiro Iizuka Yoshihiko Kajiyama Satoshi Kashibuchi Timmy Keenan Masahiro Kimura Naoki Matoba Hitoshi Miyata Koji Okumura Yosuke Sunazuka Kinji Tagashira Hisanori Takahashi Kenji Takahashi Hideo Tamura Naoyuki Tateishi Yoshihito Uenaka Michinao Yamamura	Chinese Taipei Chang Tai-shan Chen Chih-yuan Chen Chin-feng Cheng Chang-ming Chuan Chin-her Chueh Chuang-chen Feng Sheng-hsien Hsu Ming-chieh Huang Chiung-lung Huang Chung-yi Kuo Lee Chien-fu Lin Kun-han Liu Yi-chuan Pan Chung-wei Shen Po-tsang Tsai Wei-ting Tsao Chun-yang Tseng Chih-chen Wang Kuang-huei Wu Chao-hui Wu Chun-liang Yang Sung-hsien

Results

Preliminary round

Level A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	South Korea	4	4	0	43	19	1.000	—	Semifinals
2	Japan	4	1	3	24	34	.250	3
3	Chinese Taipei	4	1	3	21	35	.250	3

Source: Results
Notes:

7 December	South Korea	16–5 (F/7)	Chinese Taipei	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

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8 December	Chinese Taipei	1–4	Japan	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

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9 December	Japan	8–13	South Korea	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

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11 December	Chinese Taipei	4–5	South Korea	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

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12 December	Japan	10–11	Chinese Taipei	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

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13 December	South Korea	9–2	Japan	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

Level B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	China	4	4	0	65	16	1.000	—	Semifinals
2	Philippines	4	1	3	28	39	.250	3
3	Thailand	4	1	3	19	57	.250	3

Source: Results
Notes:

7 December	Thailand	6–5	Philippines	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

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8 December	Philippines	7–17	China	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

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9 December	China	24–5	Thailand	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

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11 December	Philippines	15–5	Thailand	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

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12 December	China	11–1	Philippines	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

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13 December	Thailand	3–13	China	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

Final round

	Semifinals				Final
	15 December
	South Korea	9
					16 December
	China	2
					South Korea (F/7)	13
	15 December
					Japan	1
	Japan	9
	Chinese Taipei	8
					Bronze medal game
					16 December
					China	6
					Chinese Taipei	10

Semifinals

15 December	South Korea	9–2	China	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

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15 December	Japan	9–8	Chinese Taipei	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

Bronze medal game

16 December	Chinese Taipei	10–6	China	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

Final

16 December	South Korea	13–1 (F/7)	Japan	Queen Sirikit Stadium, Pathum Thani

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R
Japan	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	1
South Korea	2	4	3	0	4	0	X	—	—	13

Final standing

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	South Korea	6	6	0
	Japan	6	2	4
	Chinese Taipei	6	2	4
4	China	6	4	2
5	Philippines	4	1	3
6	Thailand	4	1	3

References

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