(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Bears dethrone Lions and capture Korean Series-title
Nederlands
 SEOUL (South Korea) -
The Doosan Bears are the new champion of professional baseball in South Korea.
On Saturday (October 31), the Bears registered a very convincing 13-2 victory in Game Five against defending champion Samsung Lions to win the Korean Series, 4-1.
With this, the Bears won their first championship-title in 14 years and fourth in club-history.
The team also won the title in 1982 and 1995.
In 1982, the Bears were the first-ever champion of the then inaugural professional season of the Korean Baseball Organization.
Doosan Bears dethroned Samsung Lions, which had won the championship in the past four seasons.
The Lions missed three of their strongest pitchers.
They were left of the roster, as they were alleged to have been involved in illegal gambling overseas.
The Lions opened the Korean Series on Monday (October 26) at home with a 9-8 win.
The next day, the Bears won Game Two with a 6-1 score to even the Series.
On Thursday, the Bears took a 2-1 lead by winning 5-1, then added its next victory on Friday, 4-3.
Recaps first three games
Recap Game Four
In today's game, the Bears collected 17 basehits and scored seven runs in the first three innings.
The home team scored twice in the first at bat, then rallied for five runs in the third inning.
The Lions got one run back in the top of the fourth inning, but then the Bears answered with two more in is fifth at bat.
After the Lions scored its second (and last) run in the seventh, the Bears took even more distance by scoring three runs in the bottom of the seventh and added one more in the next at bat to lift the lead to 13-2.
Soo-bin Jung, the designated hitter of the Bears, went 3-for-5, including a 3-run homerun.
Jung batted in four runs and was named Most Valuable Player of the Series.
The Lions had nine basehits.
(October 31)
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