it happened in 2006, and it happened again today....korea has been playing well all tournament, and thumped venuzuela 10-2 in the semi-finals to face japan again in the final of the baseball classic.
it was their 5th match during the tournament, and korea and japan has 2 wins and 2 losses against each other..... besides losing to each other twice, both korea and japan has won all their other games pretty comfortably....
today.... korea lost to japan 5-3..... they were losing 1-0... and got that back with a solo home run.... 1-1
then japan went ahead again.... 3-1.... and korea got a run back in the bottom of the 8th, 3-2.....
and with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th, when i thought it was all over, korea rallied to score again to tie the game 3-3....
into extra innings.... in the top of the 10th, with 2 runners on base and 2 outs, the korean pitcher decided to throw to ichiro suzuki... despite the coach telling him to throw wide and walk him....
well, ichiro hit him, and japan scored 2 more runs to go 5-3, and korea failed to catch up this time....
the loss was soooooooooooooo gutting~~ almost as bad as the gutted feeling i got in 2002 when korea lost to germany in the soccer world cup semis....
ah well.... people thought korea would come 7th out of the 16 countries in the classic.... gold medal at the 2008 olympics, and silver here.... i guess korean baseball is gettin somewhere now...
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