• Associated Press

Mar 13, 2026, 09:25 PM ET

MIAMI —

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    Wells, who entered as a defensive replacement in the top of the seventh, reached down and drove a first-pitch cutter from Hyeong Jun So off the front of the second deck in right. Wells was born in Arizona to a mother is of Dominican descent.

    He hit the Dominicans’ second walk-off homer of the tournament after Juan Soto‘s drive that ended a 12-1 group stage win over the Netherlands.

    Backed by three runs in the second inning and four in the third, winner Christopher Sánchez struck out eight in five innings of two-hit ball.

    South Korea, which lost a semifinal in 2006 and the final in 2009, had been eliminated in the first round three straight times before reaching a quarterfinal this year. The South Koreans had two hits, batted .222 and finished with a 5.91 ERA.

    Vladimir Guerrero Jr. walked against loser Hyun Jin Ryu and scored the game’s first run from first base with a head-first slide on Junior Caminero’s double into the left-field corner. Julio Rodriguez followed with an RBI groundout and Tatis had a run-scoring single.

    Soto scored on Guerrero’s double in a four-run fourth, hooking an arm around catcher Dong Won Park with a head-first slide.