Samsung beats LG to retake second place
Samsung beats LG to retake second place
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The Samsung Lions moved back into second place in a day's time, closing to within 1.5 games of the leaders Kia Tigers.
Samsung defeated the LG Twins 2-1 on Sunday at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul, South Korea, in a visiting game of the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League. LG dropped to third place, 0.5 games behind Samsung.
The tense pitching battle between Samsung's Lee Seung-hyun and LG's Lee Sang-young broke the balance in the top of the fourth inning.
After back-to-back singles by Koo Ja-uk and David McKinnon put runners on first and third with no outs, Kang Min-ho drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly.
Samsung added a run in the sixth inning when Kim Ji-chan led off with an infield single, stole second and scored on a groundout by Kim Heon-gon and a single to left by Koo Ja-ook.
With the bases loaded and two outs in the eighth inning, Samsung reliever Oh Seung-hwan gave up a single to Austin Dean and an infield single to Park Dong-won.
But he got Koo Bon-hyeok to fly out to shortstop with runners on first and second, and then retired the LG bats in order in the ninth inning to preserve the save.
Samsung starter Lee Seung-hyun pitched six innings of four-hit ball with two walks and three strikeouts to improve to 6-3 on the season.
The Lotte Giants rolled to their fourth straight win with an 11-2 rout of KIA at home in Busan.
After failing to protect a 14-1 lead on the first day of the three-game series and being held to a 15-15 tie, the KIA bullpen was overwhelmed by Lotte's bats, which scored 32 runs in the three games, including six runs in the 26th inning and 11 runs in the nightcap.
It was KIA's sixth straight loss at Sajik Stadium in Busan, and the team is now 3-1-1 against Lotte this season.
Kia scored the first run in the fourth inning when Na Sung-beom hit a two-run double to left-center, but Lotte quickly turned the game around with five runs in the bottom of the fourth inning.
After Na Seung-yeop tied the game at 1-1 with a double to right-center, Choi Hang-hang singled up the middle with the bases loaded.
The next three batters, Park Seung-wook, Son Sung-bin, and Hwang Sung-bin, followed with back-to-back doubles to extend the lead to 5-1.
Lotte scored two runs in the fifth on a double by Na Seung-yup and a triple by Choi Hang, then added four more runs in the sixth on a double to left-center by Jeon Jun-woo, 무료고스톱다운받기 a double to center field by Victor Reyes, an RBI single by Na Seung-yup and a sacrifice fly by Jung Hoon to take the white flag from KIA.
No. 5 Na Seung-yup and No. 7 Choi Hang went 2-for-3 with two RBIs apiece.
Lotte starter Park Se-woong pitched six innings of one-run ball to snap a three-game losing streak and pick up his sixth win of the season.
The last-place Kiwoom Heroes defeated the NC Dinos 9-7 at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul to sweep a three-game series against the NC for the first time in two years.
After surrendering three runs in the top of the first inning, Kiwoom scored two runs in the bottom of the inning on Ronnie Dawson's RBI double and Choi Joo-hwan's RBI single.
In the second inning, leadoff hitter Byun Sang-kwon drew a solo arch off NC starter Shin Min-hyuk to tie the game at 3-3, and two batters later, Dawson and Kim Hye-sung hit back-to-back RBI doubles to make it 5-3.
After NC got one run back in the top of the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Kim Hyung-joon, Kiwoom answered with a two-run homer by Lee Joo-hyung in the bottom of the inning.
Lee took advantage of a high fastball from Shin Min-hyuk at first base and launched his sixth two-run homer of the season over the right-field wall of the Gocheok Sky Dome.
Kiwoom scored two runs on a wild pitch and a timely double by Choi Joo-hwan to make it 9-4.
NC rallied with a huge 140-meter blast by Matt Davidson in the fifth and a solo shot by Kwon Hee-dong in the sixth, but couldn't get past the Kiwoom bullpen.
Kiwoom starter Enmanuel De Jesus earned his ninth win of the season (4-0) with the help of the bats, despite struggling with six innings, 10 hits (2 home runs), 10 strikeouts, and seven runs (3 earned).
The Hanwha Eagles defeated the Doosan Bears 8-3 at home in Daejeon.
The Hanwha bats came out firing early against Doosan starter Choi Jun-ho.
After Hwang Young-mook led off the first inning with a leadoff homer, Hanwha took a 3-0 lead on Noh Si-hwan's two-run double to right field.
In the bottom of the second inning, Noh, the No. 4 hitter, drove in all three runners with a double to left center to make it 4-0 with three singles and three walks.
Hanwha starter Kim Ki-joong allowed just one run on six hits over five innings to improve to 3-0 on the season.
Doosan's Yang Yang-ji and Yang Seok-hwan hit solo shots in the eighth and ninth innings, respectively, but were unable to put the game out of reach.
In Incheon, kt wiz pounded out 19 hits, including three home runs, to defeat SSG Landers 16-8. SSG self-destructed with four errors.
Trailing 3-5 in the top of the sixth inning, KT tied the game 5-5 on a two-run double to left by pinch-hitter Moon Sang-chul, then turned it into an 8-5 lead on Mel Rojas Jr.'s three-run homer to left field.
They followed that up with a five-run seventh inning, capitalizing on five hits and an SSG error to put the game out of reach.
Rojas, who hit his 21st home run of the season, led the way with four RBIs, while Kang Baek-ho at No. 2 and Hwang Jae-gyun at No. 6 each had three hits.
SSG slugger Choi Jung-jeong hit a solo home run to left field in the fifth inning to become the second player in history, after Park Byung-ho, to reach the 20-homer milestone in nine consecutive seasons, but it was overshadowed by the loss.