#121---China v. Korea, 3/8/2009 (World Baseball Classic)

The previous scoresheet showed Taiwan’s opening game loss to Korea in the 2009 WBC, but they followed that up with an 4-1 upset loss to China that knocked them out of the tournament. Korea fell 14-2 to Japan, setting up this game that would advance the winner to the second round of the WBC. As expected, Korea won, and did so in mercy rule fashion. The mercy rule and the extra inning rule are elements of international play that you don’t usually see in a scoresheet--I don’t yet have an example of the latter, but have several of the former. China never threatened with only two baserunners over seven frames on a single and a double.