Save for one player's heroics, Korean bats were kept in check in a 5-4 loss to Chinese Taipei in extra innings at the World Baseball Classic (WBC) on Sunday. Leadoff man Kim Do-yeong accounted for half of Korea's two hits in the loss, which pushed Korea to the brink of elimination from knockout contention for the fourth consecutive WBC. Korea managed just one hit off starter Gu Lin Ruei-Yang through four innings and didn't even make him work that hard, either. The right-hander needed only 46 pitches to get his 12 outs, while his counterpart, Ryu Hyun-jin, threw 50 pitches over three innings. Korea finally put a man in scoring position against Gu Lin in the top fifth, when Ahn Hyun-min worked a leadoff walk and Moon Bo-gyeong singled to put runners at the corners With Shay Whitcomb coming to the plate, Gu Lin was pulled for lefty Lin Wei-En, who induced a double play ball that brought in the tying run. Then with Korea down 2-1 in the bottom sixth, Kim Do-yeong launched a two-run home run to flip the lead to 3-2 in his team's favor. It was just Korea's third hit of the game. The team's fourt