Despite some consistent hitting and a late home run from Allan de San Miguel, Team Australia fell against the world #3 ranked Korean National team 8-3 at the Gocheok Dome in Seoul.
Tim Atherton started the game well for Australia, notching up two scoreless innings, however in the third, Korea struck first care of an RBI single from Korean superstar Seo Geon-Chang.
Korea again struck in the fourth, with three runs being scored, however Australia struck back with their opening run of the ballgame coming in the sixth to cut the margin to three runs. Mitch Dening claimed the RBI after he nailed a groundball off the pitcher's foot which bobbled into centrefield and enabled James Beresford to scamper home from second.
Team Australia manager Jon Deeble was pleased with tonight's performance.
"Our defence was outstanding tonight," Deeble said.
"There's things that we can work on, we learned a lot tonight and it'll hold us in good stead heading to Japan. For the most part we played a pretty good game, I was far from disappointed tonight."
Team Australia manager Jon Deeble was pleased with tonight's performance.
"Our defence was outstanding tonight," Deeble said.
"There's things that we can work on, we learned a lot tonight and it'll hold us in good stead heading to Japan. For the most part we played a pretty good game, I was far from disappointed tonight."
Allan de San Miguel lit up the Gocheok SkyDome in the top of the eighth with a solo home run, while a James Beresford RBI brought the game within two, however a big eighth inning from Korea saw Australia go down 8-3 in their final game of their pre-World Baseball Classic tour in Korea.
Australia now moves to Japan where they take on two of the top Japanese club team's, the Orix Buffaloes and the Hanshin Tigers in Osaka.