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Our baseball team won against the Dominican Republic by writing an exhilarating ending drama at the end of the ninth and advanced to the second round of the finals. Today (the 2nd), we will meet again with Israel, who won the first group match, and compete for a ticket to the semi-finals.



Reporter Byung-min Yoo from Yokohama delivers.



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national team struggled with the slow ball of the Dominican Republic's 44-year-old starter Valdez and were dragged throughout the game.



To make matters worse, he struggled with the referee's inconsistent strike zone and remained silent after one goal in the inning.



19-year-old rookie Lee Eui-ri, who was in charge of the starting line, struck out nine up to five innings with good pitch, but bowed her head by giving a two-run four to Francisco in the fourth inning, which was one-on-one.



At the end of the 9th inning, which was heavily defeated by 3-1, coach Kim Kyung-moon pulled out the pinch hitter Choi Joo-hwan, and Choi Joo-hwan had to pull the first ball to get on base with a hit.



Following Kim Hye-seong's stealing of second base, the national team followed up with one point with Park Hae-min's just-in-time hit, and in the first out, Jeong-hoo Lee blew a one-run double on the left wing to finally equalize.



And in the second out and third base, Kim Hyeon-soo came out as a solver.



He perfectly caught the falling ball and made a finisher hit that was over the height of right fielder.



The players all ran to the ground, embraced and enjoyed the joy of victory.



[Kim Hyun-soo / National Baseball Team: We are a team without a back. I thought about it that way, and the players did not give up until the very end, so this opportunity came at the end.] Although the



big players such as Oh Jae-il and Kang Baek-ho are still sluggish, it is a positive sign that they overturned the game with the concentration of other ships in the crisis of defeat. That's it.



The national team, which succeeded in reviving the atmosphere with a pleasant victory, will play the second match against Israel in the finals from 12 noon today.