South Korea's national baseball team has two warm-up matches against Japan at Tokyo Dome in November

South Korea's national baseball team has two warm-up matches against Japan at Tokyo Dome in November

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The Korean and Japanese national baseball teams will have a warm-up match at Tokyo Dome in November.메이저사이트

The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) and the Japanese Baseball Organization (NPB) held a press conference in Tokyo, Japan on the 17th and announced, "We will hold a two-day national baseball evaluation match between Korea and Japan at Tokyo Dome, Japan, from November 15th."

The press conference was attended by KBO President Koo Hu-yeon, Korean national baseball team coach Ryu Ji-hyun, NPB President Sadayuki Sakakibara, and Japanese national team coach Hirokazu Ibata.

The two countries prepared for the warm-up match to provide baseball fans in both countries who are thirsty for baseball after the end of the 2025 season and to check the skills and conditions of the national team players ahead of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) in March 2026.

KBO has announced that it will continue to hold exchanges with foreign teams to strengthen the national team's power through the KBO League and Team Korea level-up project announced in July 2023.

The Korean and Japanese baseball teams will compete in Group C with Taiwan, Australia and the Czech Republic in the first round of the WBC at Tokyo Dome in Japan in March 2026.

Ryu Ji-hyun, head coach of the national baseball team, plans to focus on analyzing the power of the Japanese national team while identifying what to check and supplement domestic players through a warm-up match with Japan in November.