# Baseball at the 2002 Asian Games

Baseball was one of the many sports which was held at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea beginning on October 2, 2002. Five East and Southeast Asian nations participated in the tournament. The competition took place at Sajik Baseball Stadium.

## Schedule

| P | Preliminary round | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 2nd Wed | 3rd Thu | 4th Fri | 5th Sat | 6th Sun | 7th Mon | 8th Tue | 9th Wed |
| Men | P | P | P | P | P | P | ½ | F |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | South Korea Jang Sung-ho Park Jin-man Kim Han-soo Lee Jong-beom Lee Byung-kyu Kim Dong-joo Kim Min-jae Kim Jong-kook No Jang-jin Lee Seung-ho Song Jin-woo Hong Sung-heon Park Myung-hwan Lee Young-woo Lee Seung-yuop Lim Chang-yong Kim Jin-woo Kim Sang-hoon Lee Sang-hoon Cho Yong-jun Jung Jae-bok Park Jae-hong | Chinese Taipei Wang Chien-ming Hong I-chung Tsai Feng-an Yang Sung-hsien Chen Jui-cheng Chen Chien-wei Lin Yueh-ping Chang Chia-hao Liang Ju-hao Huang Chin-chih Huang Chung-yi Tsai Chung-nan Pan Wei-lun Peng Cheng-min Sun Chao-chi Wang Chuan-chia Cheng Chang-ming Kao Chih-kang Kuo Hong-chih Chen Chih-yuan Hsieh Chia-hsien Wu Chao-hui | Japan Daisuke Mori Go Kida Yosuke Shinomiya Kenta Kurihara Kazunari Tsuruoka Satoshi Kubota Keiichi Hirano Takeshi Koyama Takayuki Goto Hiroya Tani Kazuhiro Semba Koji Onuma Koji Yamamoto Kanehisa Arime Masanori Yasuda Toshiyuki Kitagawa Shingo Maeda Takashi Yoshiura Kazuhiro Hatakeyama Hisao Arakane Shiro Teramoto Katsuhiro Nishiura |

## Squads

| China | Chinese Taipei | Japan | Philippines |
| Sun Lingfeng Li Bin Chen Zhe Li Qinghua Liu Jianzhong Bai Baoliang Liu Guangbiao Ye Mingqiang Jia Yubing Hou Fenglian Wang Nan Sun Wei Ren Min Yang Guogang Zhang Jianwang Lai Guojun Li Chenhao Lü Jiangang | Wang Chien-ming Hong I-chung Tsai Feng-an Yang Sung-hsien Chen Jui-cheng Chen Chien-wei Lin Yueh-ping Chang Chia-hao Liang Ju-hao Huang Chin-chih Huang Chung-yi Tsai Chung-nan Pan Wei-lun Peng Cheng-min Sun Chao-chi Wang Chuan-chia Cheng Chang-ming Kao Chih-kang Kuo Hong-chih Chen Chih-yuan Hsieh Chia-hsien Wu Chao-hui | Daisuke Mori Go Kida Yosuke Shinomiya Kenta Kurihara Kazunari Tsuruoka Satoshi Kubota Keiichi Hirano Takeshi Koyama Takayuki Goto Hiroya Tani Kazuhiro Semba Koji Onuma Koji Yamamoto Kanehisa Arime Masanori Yasuda Toshiyuki Kitagawa Shingo Maeda Takashi Yoshiura Kazuhiro Hatakeyama Hisao Arakane Shiro Teramoto Katsuhiro Nishiura | Charlie Labrador Junnifer Pinero Alejandro Velasquez Ferdinand Recto Roy Baclay Ernesto Binarao Andro Cuyugan Ruben Angeles Wilfredo Hidalgo Fernando Badrina Virgilio Roxas Christopher Jimenez Manolito Binarao Christian Canlas Joel Binarao Ruel Batuto Roel Empacis Ricardo Jimenez |
| South Korea | | | |
| Jang Sung-ho Park Jin-man Kim Han-soo Lee Jong-beom Lee Byung-kyu Kim Dong-joo Kim Min-jae Kim Jong-kook No Jang-jin Lee Seung-ho Song Jin-woo Hong Sung-heon Park Myung-hwan Lee Young-woo Lee Seung-yuop Lim Chang-yong Kim Jin-woo Kim Sang-hoon Lee Sang-hoon Cho Yong-jun Jung Jae-bok Park Jae-hong | | | |

## Results

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

### Preliminary

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | RF | RA | PCT | GB | Qualification |
| 1 | South Korea | 4 | 4 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 1.000 | — | Semifinals |
| 2 | Japan | 4 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 13 | .750 | 1 | Semifinals |
| 3 | Chinese Taipei | 4 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 18 | .500 | 2 | Semifinals |
| 4 | China | 4 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 29 | .250 | 3 | Semifinals |
| 5 | Philippines | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 44 | .000 | 4 | |
| 2 October 14:00 | China | 0–8 | South Korea | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 2 October 14:00 | LP: Bai Baoliang | | WP: Kim Jin-woo | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| South Korea | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 0 |
| China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 2 October 18:00 | Japan | 8–3 | Chinese Taipei | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 2 October 18:00 | WP: Koji Onuma | | LP: Wang Chien-ming | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 2 October 18:00 | HR: Takeshi Koyama (1) | | | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Chinese Taipei | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | X | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 3 October 14:00 | Philippines | 0–12 (F/7) | Japan | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 3 October 14:00 | LP: Roy Baclay | | WP: Kanehisa Arime | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 3 October 14:00 | | | HR: Go Kida (1), Kazunari Tsuruoka (1) | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 12 | 18 | 1 |
| Philippines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 October 18:00 | South Korea | 7–0 | Chinese Taipei | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 3 October 18:00 | WP: Park Myung-hwan | | LP: Liang Ju-hao | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| South Korea | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 7 | 11 | 0 |
| 4 October 14:00 | Chinese Taipei | 11–1 (F/8) | China | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 4 October 14:00 | WP: Tsai Chung-nan | | LP: Li Chenhao | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 8 | 2 |
| Chinese Taipei | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | 11 | 13 | 0 |
| 4 October 18:00 | Philippines | 0–15 (F/7) | South Korea | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 4 October 18:00 | LP: Fernando Badrina | | WP: Jung Jae-bok | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| South Korea | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | — | — | 15 | 22 | 0 |
| Philippines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 5 October 14:00 | Chinese Taipei | 4–2 | Philippines | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 5 October 14:00 | WP: Lin Yueh-ping | | LP: Roy Baclay | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Philippines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| 5 October 18:00 | Japan | 10–1 | China | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 5 October 18:00 | WP: Hiroya Tani | | LP: Lai Guojun | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 5 October 18:00 | HR: Kenta Kurihara (1), Hisao Arakane (1) | | | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| Japan | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | X | 10 | 16 | 0 |
| 6 October 18:55 | South Korea | 9–0 | Japan | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 6 October 18:55 | WP: Song Jin-woo | | LP: Kazuhiro Semba | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 6 October 18:55 | HR: Kim Dong-joo (1) | | | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| South Korea | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 9 | 12 | 0 |
| 7 October 14:00 | China | 13–0 (F/7) | Philippines | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 7 October 14:00 | WP: Li Chenhao | | LP: Ernesto Binarao | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 7 October 14:00 | HR: Sun Wei (1) | | | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Philippines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| China | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | X | — | — | 13 | 15 | 0 |

### Final round

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| 8 October | 8 October |
| South Korea | 7 |
| South Korea | 7 | 9 October | 9 October |
| China | 2 | 9 October | 9 October |
| China | 2 | South Korea | 4 |
| 8 October | 8 October | | South Korea | 4 |
| 8 October | 8 October | Chinese Taipei | 3 |
| Japan | 5 | Chinese Taipei | 3 |
| Chinese Taipei (F/10) | 6 | | |
| Chinese Taipei (F/10) | 6 | 3rd–4th | 3rd–4th |
| | | 9 October | 9 October |
| | | China | 4 |
| | | Japan | 7 |

#### Semifinals

| 8 October 14:00 | South Korea | 7–2 | China | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 8 October 14:00 | WP: Cho Yong-jun | | LP: Bai Baoliang | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| China | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | X | 7 | 12 | 0 |
| 8 October 18:00 | Japan | 5–6 (F/10) | Chinese Taipei | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 8 October 18:00 | LP: Koji Yamamoto | | WP: Wang Chien-ming | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 8 October 18:00 | HR: Go Kida (1) | | HR: Chen Chih-yuan (1), Chen Chien-wei (1) | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 0 |
| Japan | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 1 |

#### 3rd–4th

| 9 October 14:00 | Japan | 7–4 | China | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 9 October 14:00 | WP: Kanehisa Arime | | LP: Ye Mingqiang | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 9 October 14:00 | HR: Go Kida (1), Satoshi Kubota (1) | | | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| China | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | X | 7 | 9 | 2 |

#### Final

| 9 October 18:00 | South Korea | 4–3 | Chinese Taipei | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| 9 October 18:00 | WP: Lim Chang-yong | | LP: Tsai Chung-nan | Sajik Baseball Stadium, Busan |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 2 |
| South Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 | 4 | 0 |

## Final standing

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