“Baseball highlights are the ... baseball heritage could beat Japan or the USA,” he said. There aren’t any players from the American MLB league in the US Olympic team, but the Japanese ...

Tetsuto Yamada's three-run double with two outs in the bottom of the eighth was the difference Wednesday as Japan advanced to the Olympic baseball gold medal game with a 5-2 win over ... On Thursday, ...

The United States and South Korea each have one gold from baseball’s five Olympic appearances. Japan’s best was silver in 1996. Cuba, which won the other previous golds, failed to qualify for ...