South Korea beat South Africa 7-0 to reach U-23 baseball Super Round

South Korea's under-23 baseball team is through to the Super Round of the 6th U-23 World Championship.

On Wednesday (Korean time), the team beat South Africa 7-0 in its last Group B game at the Roberto Clemente Stadium in Masaya, Nicaragua. Korea finished the group stage 3-2, behind Venezuela (5-0) and Japan (4-1), and took third place in the group.

Here's the odd part: Korea scored seven runs from just four hits. Kim Geon of the NC Dinos hit the decisive RBI triple down the right-field line in the third inning. In the fourth, two straight wild pitches and a sacrifice fly added two more runs. A double, a triple and a South African error then brought four more in the fifth.

Korea carries its two group-stage losses, to Venezuela and Japan, into the Super Round, where it plays the three Group A teams: Taiwan on the 13th, Australia on the 14th and Puerto Rico on the 15th.