September 4, 2013
INTERCONTINENTAL STADIUM. Korea shut the case Italy in the eighth, with six runs that gave the last game of First Round of the XXVI 18U Baseball World Cup a 17-4 anticipated end, to keep alive the chances to make the Semi-Finals Group.
The teams had put on the field a snip-snap first inning, as the Koreans scored three times out of three hits and two errors of the Italian defense and the Europeans tied the game with a sac fly by Celli and a 2-RBI double by Valera.
But it did not last much: the Easterns scored five runs in the second and, as the azzurri defense kept committing errors (7 at the end of the game), lefhander Hwang Young Kuk gave his team 5 quality inning, allowing just one more run, 2 hits and delivering 8 strikeouts.
Korea got hits from nine players and RBIs from eight.
Team Italy ends last in the Group B and will face tomorrow the other European team, Czech Republic, in the eleventh-twelfth position game, while Korea must wait for the final score of the evening games to know what kind of continuation its tournament will have.
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