Taiwan competes as “Chinese Taipei” in the World Baseball Classic because of a political compromise with China dating back to 1981.

Australia has opened the World Baseball Classic in Tokyo by beating Taiwan 3-0 on Robbie Perkins' two-run homer in the fifth ...

Australia got the World Baseball Classic underway with a 3-0 win over a Taiwan team cheered on by thousands of passionate fans in Tokyo in Thursday's opening game. "I appreciate that the fans were ...

Taiwan are not expected to win the World Baseball Classic but their fans are making their presence felt in Tokyo, with tens ...

Here is more on Chinese Taipei, including its location and why the name Taiwan isn't used in international competition.

Shohei Ohtani led Team Japan to a 13-0 blowout with with a grand slam in Friday's World Baseball Classic opener against Taiwan.

Ohtani hit a grand slam in the second inning — in the first he doubled on the first pitch of the game but didn’t score — as ...

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TOKYO (AP) — This is the Shohei Ohtani effect. Ohtani put on a giant show in batting practice hours before he hit a grand slam in the second inning — in the first he doubled on the first pitch of the ...

South Korea squeezed into the World Baseball Classic quarter-finals by the finest of margins after a nerve-jangling 7-2 win ...

Shohei Ohtani launched a grand slam as Japan hammered Taiwan 13-0 in Tokyo, launching their World Baseball Classic title defense in dominant fashion ...

Australia's catcher Robbie Perkins, left, celebrates with Australia's Rixon Wingrove after hits a two-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of a World Baseball Classic game in Tokyo, ...