Baseball’s fringe’ China defeated Japan, a team of unemployed baseball players, to top their group and advance to the Super Round. South Korea’s baseball team, led by coach Ryu Jung-il, will face Japan in the Super Round. China defeated Japan, 1-0, in a Group A baseball game at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games on Wednesday at the Shaoxing Baseball and Softball Sports Center 1 in Zhejiang, China. China scored the game’s first run in the top of the second inning on an infield single by Cao Ze, a walk to Lu Yun, a sacrifice bunt by Yang Jin and a single to left by Dunan, and held on for the win. China had runners on first and second with no outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, but reliever Zheng Qiaoqin struck out the next two batters to preserve the dramatic victory .Chinese starter Wang Xing held the Japanese offense to one hit and no walks over five innings to earn the win .The Chinese victory is an anomaly, given that Japan fielded an Asian Games team of unemployed baseball players .Japan’s semi-professional baseball players have been a force to be reckoned with at every Asian Games .At the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta-Palembang, Japan defeated China 17-2 in the group stage, including a five-inning cold game .In the super round, they swept Chinese Taipei 5-0 to win the silver medal .As the Chinese baseball team proved to be more than expected at the tournament, the Korean baseball team’s strategy for each game of the Super Round may need to change .Initially, Korea expected Japan to top the group and prepared its lineup accordingly, but China’s upset victory over Japan changed the Super Round schedule .With three wins, China topped Group A, while Japan, with two wins and one loss, finished second in Group A and advanced to the Super Round .Group B runner-up South Korea (2-1) will play Group A runner-up Japan on Friday at 1 p.m. ET and Group A champion China on Saturday at 1 p.m. ET .South Korea enters the Super Round with one loss, which came in the group stage against Chinese Taipei (3 wins).Japan also has one loss, while Taiwan and China both start with one win. The top two of the four teams advance to the final, with the third- and fourth-place teams playing for the bronze medal .South Korea will advance if they beat both Japan and China and Taiwan wins against China. The matchup between Chinese Taipei and China that teams will want to keep an eye on is at 7:30 p.m. on May 5.If that scenario doesn’t play out and another team ends up in a tie for first place, you’ll have to do some complicated math First, we determine the winner of the match between the tied teams, and if there’s a bite, we calculate the team’s quality balance (TQB), which is a metric for the match between tied teams. TQB is calculated by the following formula: (runs scored/offense innings played)-(runs allowed/defense innings played).If this is equal, the tie is broken by the minimum number of earned runs over TQB (ERA-TQB), and if this does not break the tie, the team batting average is calculated. If the 카지노사이트 batting average is the same, flip a coin.