Korean baseball fails to advance to Asian Championship finals 3rd and 4th place match with Philippines

Taipei Dome’s first home run hitter Kim Beom-seok (left) and relief pitcher Cho Byeong-hyun

The Korean baseball team failed to advance to the finals of the 30th Asian Baseball Championship.

The Korean national team, composed of a professional and amateur union led by coach Jeong Bo-myeong (coach of Dongeui University), lost 2-5 to Japan in the second game of the Super Round held at the Taipei Dome in Taipei, Taiwan on the 9th.

Korea, which lost 0-4 to Chinese Taipei in the group stage and advanced to the super round in second place in the group with one loss, defeated the Philippines 8-2, but was unable to advance past Japan and finished with only 1 win and 2 losses in the super round.

Japan advanced to the finals with three wins, and Chinese Taipei beat the Philippines 2-1 to take second place in the super round with 2 wins and 1 loss, and will clash with Japan for the championship at 7:30 p.m. on the 10th.

Korea will play the Philippines for third and fourth place at 1:30 pm on the 10th.

In the game against Japan on this day, Korea gave the winning run in the 3rd inning with 2 outs and runners on 2nd and 3rd with 2 outs and runners on 2nd and 3rd base against Japan on this day, with starting pitcher Byung-Hun Lee (Doosan Bears) giving the winning run, and then being dragged down 0-2 by a timely hit by Ryuga Ihara.

In the 4th inning, they gave up consecutive hits at 1st and 3rd bases with 1 out, falling to 0-4.

Korea trailed by 1 point in the 5th inning with one out, 2nd and 3rd bases, Jun-jae Jeong (Dongguk University)’s grounder, and trailed 2-4 with Beom-seok Kim’s (LG Twins) home run to left in the 8th.

Kim Beom-seok’s home run is the first home run in the Taipei Dome, which opened for this tournament.

However, Korea scored one more point in the bottom of the 8th inning, falling behind by three points. 19가이드03