Wednesday, 13 August 2008
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South Korea walks off with win over USA, 8-7
2008 SPECIAL COVERAGE – 2008 BEIJING SUMMER OLYMPICS
Game played Aug. 13, 2008South Korea scored two runs in the ninth inning to post an 8-7 comeback win over the United States in the preliminaries at the 29th Olympiad. Jong-Wook Lee’s sacrifice fly scored Taek-Keun Lee for the winning run.
Team USA scored first in its first at-bat. Jayson Nix doubled with one out and scored on a Matt Brown two-out single for a 1-0 lead.
Korea took the lead right back in the bottom of the second frame. Dong-Joo Kim led off with a come-backer single off U.S. pitcher Brandon Knight’s leg before Dae-Ho Lee homered to deep left to take a 2-1 advantage.
Korea added a run in the third. Yong-Kyu Lee doubled down the left-field line and scored from third on a Knight wild pitch.
The Americans tied the score in the fifth. Mike Hessman led off with a single to left and Taylor Teagarden walked. Brian Barden followed with a single through the left side that just got past diving Korean shortstop Jin-Man Park, scoring Hessman. Terry Tiffee then singled to center after a pitching change to score Teagarden to tie the score at three.
Korea then sent eight men to the plate in its next at-bat to take the lead again. Young-Min Ko drew a one-out walk and Jong-Wook Lee dropped down a bunt single ahead of Yong-Kyu Lee, who singled to right to score Ko. Jin-Young Lee topped a ball to the right side, but first baseman Brown fielded the grounder and no one covered first base for the U.S., allowing Jong-Wook Lee to score. Seung-Yuop Lee then doubled to the left-field wall to score Yong-Kyu Lee for a 6-3 lead.
Undeterred, Team USA’s Nate Schierholtz lined the first pitch he saw in the sixth inning from Korea reliever Tae-Hyon Chong just over the right-field wall to cut the deficit to 6-4.
The U.S. took their first lead since the second inning in the top of the ninth. Hessman led off with a jack to left off Korea reliever Ki-Joo Han to cut the Korean lead to one. Teagarden then singled to right and Barden doubled to the right field wall. After Suk Min Yoon came on in relief of Han and Tiffee drew a two-out walk to load the bases, Brown singled to left to score pinch runner Dexter Fowler and Barden to take a 7-6 lead.
However, Korea would not give in. With Jeff Stevens on to shut it down for the Americans, pinch hitter Keun-Woo Jeong led off with a double down the left-field line to the wall. With one out, pinch hitter Taek-Keun Lee’s grounder to second was fielded by Nix, whose off-line throw home could not prevent Jeong from scoring to tie the game.
Taek-Keun Lee then advanced to third after a wild pickoff throw from Stevens got away down the right-field line and scored on Jong-Wook Lee’s one-out sac fly to center to end the game.
For South Korea, Jong-Wook Lee and Yong-Kyu Lee each led the way with two-hit nights. Jung-Keun Bong started for Korea and lasted 4 1/3 innings, allowing three runs on five hits with a walk and four strikeouts. Chong, who struck out the side in the seventh, then worked 2 2/3 frames with six punchouts. Kwang-Hyun Kim pitched a scoreless inning before Han came in and failed to retire a batter. Yoon (1-0) got the win for Korea.
Barden led the way for Team USA’s 12-hit attack with three hits, while Tiffee, Brown and Hessman all recorded two base knocks. Knight also worked 4 1/3 frames, allowing six runs on eight hits with two walks and two strikeouts. Mike Koplove, Brian Duensing and Kevin Jepsen combined to retire 10 straight hitters out of the bullpen before Stevens (0-1) blew the save.
Both squads are back in action Thursday morning, with Korea facing host China while the U.S. takes on the Netherlands.
Video credit – NBCOlympics.com
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