7th place Lotte 2 consecutive victories of resurrection … Kiwoom, tied for the most team wins in a row
NC wins 5 consecutive victories after beating SSG…
‘Jeong Soo-bin Home Run Four’ Doosan, Samsung defeated kt,
9 wins and 1 loss in the last 10 games… LG,
‘no game’ due to rain at the end of the second inning with an 8-0 lead
Lotte Giants, which had been hesitating, prepared a foothold for another leap forward.
Lotte won 3-1 in an away game against Kiwoom Heroes in the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League held at Gocheok Sky Dome on the 8th.
7th place Lotte, who had a ‘team no-hit-no-run’ against SSG Landers last Sunday,
is aiming to enter the top ranks again by winning two consecutive victories with the mound at the forefront.
On the other hand, 9th place Kiwoom, who fell into the swamp of 9 consecutive losses,
even set a tie record for the most consecutive losses in the team.
After two deaths in the top of the 6th inning, Lotte was 0-0,
Kim Min-seok hit a right-handed hit against Kiwoom starter An Woo-jin.
At this moment, when the number of pitches by Ahn Woo-jin reached 104,
the Kiwoom bench put Lee Myeong-jong to the rescue.
In Lotte, Roh Jin-hyeok made a heavy hit against Lee Myeong-jong,
when center fielder Ronnie Dawson threw the ball back,
Kim Min-seok quickly dug into the home field and scored the first goal. 카지노사이트
Kiwoom, who had been dragged away, tied the score 1-1 with Kim Hwi-jip,
who started as the lead batter at the end of the 8th inning, with a solo home run.
However, in the top of the ninth inning, Lotte scored the winning run.
Lotte took a 2-1 lead again with Ahn Kwon-soo and Lee Jung-hoon’s hits from 1 out 1st and 3rd base and Ahn Chi-hong’s infield hit.
Then, while Yoon Dong-hee’s batted ball was missed,
shortstop Kim Hwi-jip missed, Lee Hak-joo, a runner on second base,
dug into the home and ran away 3-1, seizing the victory.
Lotte starter Charlie Barnes threw 7 strikeouts in 5⅔innings and pitched with 5 hits and no runs, but could not achieve victory.
Kiwoom An Woo-jin also went down without income
after 4 hits, 4 walks, 7 strikeouts, and 1 run (unlawful) in 5⅔ innings.
In Incheon, the NC Dinos beat SSG Landers 2-0 and won five consecutive victories.
It was a tight pitching match with the starting match
between Eric Peddy and Kim Gwang-hyun, the aces of both teams.
Peddie, who leads the team in most wins and ERA,
struck out 5 through the 7th inning and allowed 4 hits and no runs,
earning his 15th win (3 losses) of the season and dropping his ERA to 1.97.
Peddy won 15 wins in 19 games, tying the KBO league record of least 15 wins
set by Kim Il-yung (then Samsung Lions) in 1985.
Kim Gwang-hyun also did his part, blocking 6 innings with 4 hits and 1 run,
but became a losing pitcher in the silence of the other line.
In the top of the 4th inning, NC Hyung-Jun Yoon threw a sacrifice fly
to the left fielder to take the lead in the 1st 2nd and 3rd bases
made by Park Min-woo and Kim Seong-wook’s hits and the opponent’s error.
In the beginning of the ninth inning, when they were maintaining an uneasy lead,
Kim Joo-won walked after one shot, and Son A-seop survived by selecting a fielder.
Then, after Kim Joo-won succeeded in stealing third base,
he made it 2-0 by stepping on the groove when Kwon Hee-dong grounded in the infield.
SSG, who was humiliated by the Lotte Giants last Sunday with a ‘team no-hit, no-run’,
suffered a shutout loss for two consecutive games with only four sporadic hits that day.
In Jamsil, the Doosan Bears defeated the Samsung Lions 5-3 to retain 5th place.
Doosan took the lead in the bottom of the first inning when lead hitter Sue-Bin Sue hit a solo home run, the first of the season.
Kim Jae-ho hit base, Jose Rojas went on base due to an opponent’s error,
Doosan added 1 point with Kang Seung-ho’s infield grounder to take a 2-0 lead.
In the 4th inning, after two outs, Kim Min-hyeok hit a hit that fell in the middle left,
Park Yoo-yeon hit a double from left, and Heo Kyung-min hit a superior triple,
followed by an opponent’s error, and ran away 5-0.
In the beginning of the 6th inning, Samsung made up for 1 point with an infield hit by Kim Hyeon-joon,
in the 9th inning, Doosan took advantage of a mistake to score 2 points, but could not turn around.
Doosan starter Choi Seung-yong blocked 3 hits and 1 run in 5⅓ innings, becoming the winning pitcher.
kt wiz defeated Hanwha Eagles 7-2 in their home game in Suwon.
4th place kt continued its vicious momentum
by winning 9 out of the last 10 games, and 8th place Hanwha fell into a 3-game losing streak.
KT took a 2-0 lead with two infield hits at the end of the first inning,
with Park Byeong-ho and Lee Ho-yeon hitting timely hits from 1st and 3rd base.
Hanwha made up for one point with Kim In-hwan’s timely hit to the left in the beginning of the second inning.
However, kt ran away with 5-1 after Hwang Jae-kyun hit 2 RBIs
Park Byeong-ho hit left-handed in 2 out 2nd and 3rd base after the change of air defense.
In the 4th inning, kt added 1 point with Park Byeong-ho’s timely hit again amid an opponent’s mistake,
at the end of the 5th, Kim Min-hyuk’s timely hit added 1 point and took a 7-1 lead.
In kt’s last defense in the beginning of the 9th inning,
the third pitcher Ha Jun-ho suffered from hunting for the first pitch and gave up a point,
but it did not affect the game.
Cuevas won his 5th win (undefeated) of the season by fighting hard with 5 hits, 8 strikeouts and 1 run in 7 innings.
In the other lineup, Hwang Jae-gyun went 5 at-bats,
4 hits, 2 RBIs and 3 points, and Park Byung-ho played a big role with 3 hits and 3 RBIs in 4 at-bats.
Meanwhile, in the Gwangju game, the LG Twins led the KIA Tigers by 8-0 until the second inning, but a ‘no game’ was declared due to heavy rain.
LG missed the first win, and KIA starter Yang Hyeon-jong allowed 8 runs (6 earned)
with 9 hits and 1 walk in 2 innings, but escaped the loss crisis due to lucky rain.