Things to know about the baseball competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics:
THE ABSOLUTE BASICS
Baseball returns to the Olympics after being voted off following the 2008 Games in Beijing.
Six teams will be set into two groups for an opening round-robin stage: Israel, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, the United States and one team to be decided in qualifiers later this month.
It gets complicated from there. Second place from each group will square off, as will the third-placed teams. The loser of the third-placed match will be the first eliminated, and the rest of the tournament will be double-knockout.
Games last nine innings, with each team allotted three outs during their tur…
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