Seung Yuop Lee’s 11th inning single leads Korea over China
South Korea – China 1-0 (11)
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On Sunday South Korea and China completed the suspended game from Thursday. Seung Yuop Lee singled in the winning run in the bottom of the eleventh to lead Korea to a 1-0 win against China. It was the third match at the Olympics, which was decided by the new IBAF tiebreaker rule.
After ten scoreless innings didn’t decided the outcome both teams had to put runners at first and second with no outs in the eleventh. China advanced the runners into scoring position through a groundout, but failed to score, when Lingfeng Sun didn’t get back to third in time on a flyout to center field to end the half inning with a double play. South Korea didn’t mess around in the bottom of the frame, moving the runners with a sac bunt and Lee followed with a single to seal the win.
Seung Jun Song (KOR) started last Thursday and allowed just two hits and a walk in six dominant innings, striking out nine. Won Sam Jang came in on Sunday at the start of the seventh innings and struck out four in 4 1/3 two-hit innings. Seung Hwan Oh (W 1-0) picked up the win.
Chenhao Li (CHN) gave up three hits and a walk in 5 1/3 innings in the first part. Tao Bu pitched for 3 2/3 innings on Sunday, before Jiangang Lv (L 1-1) took the loss.
