It has been more than 10 years since South Korea last beat Japan in a best-on-best baseball game featuring professional players.
It came in the semifinals of the World Baseball Softball Confederation Premier12 in November 2015, when South Korea rallied for a 4-3 win. After that, Japan went on to win 10 consecutive games. Japan nearly stretched that streak to 11 wins in an exhibition game last November before Kim Ju-won came to South Korea's rescue with a game-tying solo shot with two outs in the bottom of the ninth at Tokyo Dome.
South Korea will take another crack at beating Japan on Saturday evening, back at the same icon
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