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Oh Ji-hwan levelled things up for the defending champions, before Ryan Lavarnway restored Israel's lead against the side ranked 21 places above them.īack-to-back home runs from Lee Jung-hoo and Kim Hyun-soo and a run batted in from Oh at the bottom of the seventh put South Korea in the driving seat.īut Lavarnway hit a huge home run in the ninth to force the extra innings.īoth teams play the United States in their final Group B game later this week. Ian Kinsler, who played in Major League Baseball from 2006-19, hit the Israelis' first-ever Olympic home run in the third innings. They reached their first Olympics by winning the WBSC Olympic Baseball Qualifier, beating the Netherlands, hosts Italy, Spain and South Africa to claim the Europe/Africa spot at the Games. It is the first time since their men's football side played at the 1976 Games that Israel are competing in an Olympic team sport.īefore the Games, Israel's fairytale journey to Tokyo had seen them likened external-link to Jamaica's 1988 Winter Olympic bobsleigh team. The badminton tournaments at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place between 24 July and 2 August 2021. South Korea are ranked world number three in baseball and are among the favourites for another medal in Tokyo.

Israel relief pitcher Jeremy Bleich struck the final two South Korea batters with errant throws to enable the favourites to score the winning run. But South Korea, champions the last time baseball was staged at the Olympics in 2008, avoided an upset after back-to-back hit-by-pitches. The delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics came to an end on Sunday, with a closing ceremony that marked the finish of what will forever be remembered as the COVID Games.