Samsung beats LG to reclaim 2nd place Leader KIA suffers 6 consecutive losses
Samsung beats LG to reclaim 2nd place Leader KIA suffers 6 consecutive losses
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The Samsung Lions reclaimed second place in just one day and chased the leader KIA Tigers by 1.5 games.
Samsung defeated LG Twins 2-1 in the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League away game held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul
on the 27th. LG fell to 3rd place, 0.5 games behind Samsung.
The tight balance between Samsung's Lee Seung-hyun and LG's Lee Sang-young was broken in the top of the 4th inning
when Samsung attacked.
After Koo Ja-wook and David MacKinnon hit consecutive hits to create a chance with runners on first and third base with
no outs, Kang Min-ho scored the first run with a sacrifice fly.
In the 6th inning, Samsung added one run with an infield hit by leadoff hitter Kim Ji-chan, a stolen base by second base, a
base hit by Kim Heon-gon, and a left-field RBI hit by Koo Ja-wook.
Samsung's closer Oh Seung-hwan, who came on as a relief pitcher in the bottom of the 8th with 2 outs and a runner on
first base and a 2-0 lead, gave up a run when he gave up a center hit to Austin Dean and an infield hit to Park Dong-won.
However, he took a breather after catching Koo Bon-hyeok with a fly ball to the shortstop with runners on first and second
base and then, in the 9th inning, he struck out the LG batters with three strikeouts to earn the save.
Samsung starter Lee Seung-hyun pitched 6 innings, allowing 4 hits, 2 walks, striking out 3, and no runs, earning his 6th
win (3 losses) of the season.
The Lotte Giants defeated KIA 11-2 in a home game in Busan, extending their winning streak to four games.
The KIA mound, which failed to maintain its 14-1 lead on the first day of the three-game series and ended in a 15-15 draw,
collapsed miserably against Lotte's hot bats, allowing 6 runs on the 26th and 11 runs on this day, giving up 32 runs in the
three-game series.
KIA has fallen into a slump of six consecutive losses at Sajik Stadium in Busan, and has also been unable to avoid a
disadvantage in its record against Lotte this season, with three wins, one draw, and seven losses.
KIA scored first with a left-center double by Na Sung-beom in the 4th inning when the score was 0-0, but Lotte turned the
game around in an instant by scoring 5 runs in the bottom of the 4th.
After Na Seung-yeop's double to right-center tied the score at 1-1, Choi Hang's go-ahead center-field RBI hit came with two
outs and a runner on third base.
After that, Park Seung-wook, Son Seong-bin, and Hwang Seong-bin hit consecutive doubles to widen the gap to 5-1.
Lotte added 2 more runs in the 5th inning with Na Seung-yeop's double and Choi Hang's triple, and then in the 6th inning
with Jeon Jun-woo's 2 RBI double to left-center, Victor Reyes' double to center field, Na Seung-yeop's hit, and Jeong
Hoon's sacrifice fly, Lotte forced KIA to surrender.
Na Seung-yeop (5th) and Choi Hang (7th) were on fire, each collecting 3 hits and 2 RBIs.
Lotte starting pitcher Park Se-woong broke his three-game losing streak and earned his sixth win of the season with a
great performance of 1 run in 6 토토사이트 innings.
The last-place Kiwoom Heroes defeated the NC Dinos 9-7 at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, winning three games against NC
for the first time in two years.
Kiwoom, who gave up 3 runs in the top of the first inning, recovered 2 runs in the bottom of the first inning with Ronnie
Dawson's RBI double and Choi Joo-hwan's RBI infield hit.
In the second inning, leadoff hitter Byun Sang-kwon hit a solo arch off NC starting pitcher Shin Min-hyeok to tie the score
at 3-3, and with two outs, Dawson and Kim Hye-seong hit back-to-back RBI doubles to make it 5-3.
When NC narrowed the gap to 1 run in the top of the 4th with Kim Hyung-jun's sacrifice fly, Kiwoom immediately widened
the gap with Lee Joo-hyung's 2-run home run in the bottom of the 4th.
Lee Ju-hyung hit his 6th two-run home run of the season by hitting a high fastball from Shin Min-hyeok with runners on
first and second base and hitting the right wall of Gocheok Sky Dome.
Kiwoom added 2 runs with NC's wild pitch and Choi Joo-hwan's timely double to take the lead to 9-4.
NC chased with a 140m two-run home run by Matt Davidson in the 5th and a solo home run by Kwon Hee-dong in the 6th,
but could not overcome the Kiwoom bullpen.
Kiwoom starter Enmanuel De Geisus struggled with 6 innings, allowing 10 hits (2 home runs), striking out 10, and giving
up 7 runs (3 earned runs), but with help from the batting line, he picked up his 9th win (4 losses) of the season and took
the sole lead in wins in the league.
The Hanwha Eagles defeated the Doosan Bears 8-3 at their home stadium in Daejeon.
Hanwha's batting lineup gave Doosan's starting pitcher Choi Jun-ho a hot beating early on.
Hanwha, which scored the winning run with Hwang Young-mook's first home run of the season in the bottom of the first
inning, added a two-run home run by Noh Si-hwan over the right-center field wall with one out and a runner on second
base to make it 3-0.
In the bottom of the second inning, with two outs and bases loaded, Noh Si-hwan, the 4th batter, hit a double to left field
and drove in 5 RBIs by himself, making the score 4-0.
Hanwha Eagles starter Kim Ki-joong allowed six hits in five innings, but only gave up one run to earn his third win
(undefeated) of the season.
Doosan's Yang Eui-ji and Yang Seok-hwan each hit a solo home run in the 8th and 9th innings, but they could not turn the
game around.