SOUTH KOREA – The two-time reigning Korea Baseball Organization champion SK Wyverns captured a pair of wins against the Doosan Bears over the weekend to force a pivotal Game 5 on Tuesday at Munhak Stadium in Incheon.

The winner will meet the KIA Tigers in the Korean Series later this month.

Trailing two games to none in the best-of-five series, Wyverns staved off elimination in Game 3 when Park Jung-kwon delivered a clutch RBI double in the 10th to give the defending league title-holder a 3-1 victory.

SK, which rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the 2007 Korean Series to beat the Bears, knotted the series with an 8-3 must-win Sunday in Seoul to force a rubber match.

Former Boston Red Sox hurler Kim Sun-woo walked Kim Jae-hyun in the opening frame, and a single by Park Jung-kwon put runners on the corners. A wild pitch allowed Kim to race home with the first run of the game.

Wyverns added two more scores in the second before Doosan put together a three-run third. Lee Jong-wook and Jung Soo-bin reached on a pair of walks to start the inning before Ko Young-min tagged American pitcher Gary Glover for a three-run drive to tie the game.

Park put SK ahead with a go-ahead, two-run double in the seventh, and Kim Kang-min added a two-run triple to make the score 7-3. Choi Jeong’s solo homer an inning later finished off the key win for Wyverns.

Photos courtesy of koreabaseball.blogspot.com

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