The Korean national baseball team's dreams of winning the World Baseball Classic were crushed on Tuesday despite a 3-2 win against Taiwan in the final match of Pool B.
Korea trailed 0-2 until the eighth inning but turned the game around with three runs, including Kang Jung-ho's two-run homer.
Korea tied with the two other teams in Pool B, Taiwan and the Netherlands, in total points with two wins and one loss but lost in terms of team quality balance (TQB) in third place. Korea was a semifinalist in the inaugural WBC in 2006 and a runner-up in the second WBC in 2009 but had to accept a disappointing early exit this year.
