(Premier12) S. Korea progresses to next round after Australia beats Canada
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea advanced to the second stage of the ongoing Olympic baseball qualifying tournament Friday, even before playing its final group game.
Australia defeated Canada 3-1 in the teams' final Group C game of the Premier12 at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, with cleanup Logan Wade delivering a tie-breaking, two-run triple in the bottom of the eighth.
This result left Australia and Canada with the identical record of 1-2, and it also meant South Korea (2-0) will finish among the top two in the group, regardless of its result against Cuba (1-1) in the Group C finale later Friday.
South Korean players celebrate a run against Canada during the teams' Group C game at the Premier12 at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on Nov. 8, 2019. (Yonhap)
From three groups of four teams, the top two nations will advance to the Super Round, which starts next week in Japan.
The Premier12 is also the Olympic qualifying tournament for the Americas and Asia/Oceania. In order to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, South Korea must first reach the Super Round and then finish ahead of Australia and Chinese Taipei in the final standings.
Australia helped South Korea take care of the first part of that equation. Chinese Taipei reached the Super Round out of Group B, and South Korea will need to better its longtime Asian rival in Japan next week.
Australia scored first on Robert Glendinning's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the first, but Canada tied it up in the top of the second with Rene Tosoni's RBI double to right.
The teams traded zeroes until the eighth inning. With two men on with two outs, Logan Wade lined a triple to the right-center gap to bring both runners home.
In this Associated Press photo, Timothy Atherton of Australia throws against Canada during the top of the first inning of the Group C game at the Premier12 at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on Nov. 8, 2019. (Yonhap)
Should Cuba, Australia and Canada all finish with 1-2 records, they'll go to a tiebreaking formula called Team's Quality Balance (TBQ).
It is the sum of runs scored divided by the number of offensive innings, minus the number of runs allowed divided by the number of defensive innings. The team with the highest TQB will be declared the winner of the group. Only the scores from the games between the tied nations will count.
jeeho@yna.co.kr
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