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South Korea loses Asia Professional Baseball Championship opener 8-7 to Australia

South Korea opened the third Asia Professional Baseball Championship in Tokyo with an 8-7 defeat to Australia after leading late in the game.

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South Korea began the third Asia Professional Baseball Championship (APBC), a tournament for young professionals and prospects, with an 8-7 loss to Australia at the Tokyo Dome on 12 November 2026.

Korea fell behind 4-0 early, then scored six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to take the lead. The advantage did not last. Australia tied the game at 6-6 in the eighth inning on a two-run homer by Clayton Campbell off reliever Park Jung-min of Lotte, and added the winning run in the ninth.

The result mattered because Korea had gone into the tournament with confidence and a stated aim of winning the title. Losing the opener to Australia left it with little margin in the round-robin stage, and it faced host Japan the next day. That put pressure on the Korean team to recover quickly in a short tournament.

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