Olympics-Baseball-Dominican Republic take bronze, first-ever team medal

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Baseball - Men - Bronze Medal Match - Dominican Republic v South Korea - Yokohama Baseball Stadium, Yokohama, Japan - August 7, 2021. Dominican Republic players celebrate winning the bronze medal match after competing. REUTERS/Issei Kato

YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic won the Olympic bronze medal in baseball on Saturday, with a pair of huge innings at the plate wrapping around South Korea's one rally to secure a 10-6 victory.

The Caribbean country's first-ever medal in a team sport will be celebrated in a nation where many of its 11 million people grow up playing baseball, with the poor using bottle caps or whatever they can find on the streets as a makeshift ball.