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baseball team also lost unfortunately. They lost their second game to the United States by two points and finished second in their group. The road to gold has been tough, but it's not broken yet.
Reporter Lee Seong-hoon on the sidewalk.
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Following the consecutive hits of Hae-
Min
Park and Jeong-Hoo Lee in the first inning, the national team, which took the lead with a ground ball by Kim Hyeon-soo, was then tied to the powerful momentum of American pitchers, starting with Martinez, the ace of Japanese professional baseball SoftBank.
He struck out 13 throughout the game and failed to score an additional goal in the eighth inning.
The pitchers who struggled with allowing two home runs against Israel were also hit by a home run.
Starter Young-pyo Ko, who had been playing hard until the 3rd inning, hit a two-run homer in the 4th and the opponent's 4th batter Casas, and allowed Allen another solo homerun after the 5th two-out.
Even the second pitcher, Ko Woo-seok, was hit by consecutive hits and conceded one more point to lose the initiative.
After two outs in the 7th inning, in the chance to walk and 1-2 base, which was obtained by walking and hitting the body, the national team that hit the ground with a well hit by Park Geon-woo flew right in front of the shortstop, chasing only one point with Oh Jae-il's sacrifice fly in the ninth inning. I got down on my knees 4-2.
[Kim Kyung-moon / Baseball Team Manager: The central batting line needs to be more active, but today's game seems to be forgotten quickly, and I will prepare for tomorrow's game quickly.]
Korea, which has won 1 win and 1 loss, gave up the first place in Group B to the United States of two consecutive wins, and tomorrow (1st) will play the first game of the transformational loser revival against Dominica, the second place in Group A, on the night of the 1st.
(Video coverage: Hojun Choi, video editing: Youngtaek Oh)