There is no looking past the task at hand for either Australia or South Korea when they square off in the opening game in Pool B of the World Baseball Classic on Thursday.
Both have ambitions of at least reaching the quarterfinals — even if the points they're trying to make by getting there are slightly different.
For South Korea, the 2023 Classic is a chance to ease the sting of failing to get out of the group stage in 2013 and 2017.
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