2nd Place NC, 3rd Place Samsung, Team Shutout for Two Days in a Row... Hanwha Escapes 6 Consecutive Losses
KT Cuevas' first win in 6 games and 7th term... SSG Kim Gwang-hyun's 162nd win again defeated LG and leader KIA, and jumped to a tie for 4th place with the excitement of 3 consecutive wins.
NC Dinos and Samsung Lions continued their upward trend with shutout wins in two days.
NC won 2-0 in the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League home game against the Lotte Giants at Changwon NC Park in Gyeongnam on the 27th.
NC, which defeated Lotte 4-0 the previous day, took the lead in the 'Nakdong River Derby' against Lotte this season with 4 wins and 1 loss.
Lotte hit 7 hits and walked 4, but went scoreless for 18 consecutive innings. 바카라사이트
NC starter Kim Si-hoon won the game without giving up a run despite giving up 6 hits and 3 walks in 5⅔ innings.
Lotte Na Kyun-an, who allowed 2 runs in 5 innings, suffered his 4th loss (1 win) due to a poor batting lineup.
NC took the lead in the 4th inning with Kim Hyeong-jun's infield single on 1st and 2nd bases with 2 outs and a walk, and added 1 point in the 5th inning with 3 consecutive hits after 2 outs.
The four relief pitchers, Kim Young-gyu (6th inning), Kim Jae-yeol (7th inning), Han Jae-seung (8th inning), and Lee Yong-chan (9th inning), silenced Lotte's pursuit with a salty pitch that allowed only one hit.
Second-place NC narrowed the gap with the leading KIA Tigers, who had lost two consecutive games, to two games.
Samsung defeated Kiwoom 11-0 at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul and moved up to third place.
On the 26th, Samsung beat Kiwoom 3-0 with an impeccable fight between Won Tae-in, Kim Jae-yoon, and Oh Seung-hwan, and on this day, they won with 15 hits and no home runs.
Samsung took the lead in the 5th inning when the score was still at 0 with 2 outs and runners on second base thanks to Koo Ja-wook's 1-run, timely hit to left.
Then, in the 8th inning, he scored 7 points with 6 hits, 1 walk, and 2 pitches hit to the body, effectively receiving a white flag.
Starting with Kang Min-ho's 1 RBI timely hit on 1st and 2nd bases with 1 out in the 8th inning, Kim Seong-yoon's 1 RBI timely hit, an opponent's wild pitch, and Kim Ji-chan's infield grounder on 2nd and 3rd bases with 1 out, they ran away with a 5-0 lead.
Jaehyun Lee and David MacKinnon's consecutive timely hits and Kiwoom's errors overlapped, widening the gap to 8-0.
The 3 points scored in the 9th inning were a bonus.
Samsung foreign pitcher Connor Siebold won without giving up a point for the first time since entering the KBO League with 4 hits, 3 walks, 5 strikeouts, and no runs in 5 innings.
Due to the silence of the batting line, Kiwoom was struggling in the swamp of 6 consecutive losses.
The Hanwha Eagles defeated the Doosan Bears 10-5 in front of a packed house in Daejeon for 14 consecutive games, escaping from a 6-game losing streak.
Hanwha, who promoted coach Kang Dong-woo, who had been teaching the Futures (2nd team) players, to the new batting coach and sought a way out for the batting lineup, gave up 12 hits, including one home run, and quickly destroyed the Doosan mound that they faced on a 'bullpen day'.
#3 Yonatan Peraza, #4 Noh Si-hwan, and #5 Chae Eun-seong led the way to victory with 3 RBIs each.
With the bases loaded and one out in the first inning, Hanwha scored 4 points with Chae Eun-seong's sweeping double in the middle and Ahn Chi-hong's hit to right.
Hanwha, who scored two runs in the second inning with the bases loaded and two outs, thanks to a timely hit by Noh Si-hwan, ran away with a 6-4 lead in the fourth inning thanks to consecutive timely hits by Peraza and Noh Si-hwan to go up 8-4.
Peraza scored with a two-run arch toward the left-center stands in the sixth inning.
kt wiz defeated SSG Landers 5-2 in Incheon.
KT 1 starting pitcher William Cuevas struck out 11 batters and finished 6 innings with 1 run, earning his first win of the season (3 losses) in his 7th attempt.
Gwang-Hyun Kim, who was trying for the third time to achieve 162 wins, the third most wins in his career, pitched 5 innings with 8 strikeouts, but hit 3 home runs and gave up 4 runs, resulting in his first loss of the season (3 wins).
As KT catcher Jang Seong-woo gained momentum with a go-ahead solo shot to right-center in the 2nd inning, in the 3rd inning, number 1 hitter Cheon Seong-ho (left-center) and number 2 hitter Kang Baek-ho (right-center) hit consecutive solo home runs to lighten Cuevas' shoulders.
Baek-ho Kang scored his second RBI with a timely hit to right with one out and two on base in the fifth inning, leading 3-0.
Pinch hitter Kim Min-hyuk pushed SSG out of the chase with a timely hit to right in the 8th inning.
The LG Twins defeated KIA 6-3 at home in Jamsil, earning their third consecutive win and tied for fourth place with SSG.
As LG took the lead with Austin Dean's two-run shot to left in the first inning, KIA made up for one run with Junsu Han's timely hit to left in the top of the second inning, then set up Socrates Brito's tying solo shot in the fourth inning and Changjin Lee's sacrifice fly with one out and the bases loaded to make it 3-2.
The tide turned.
However, LG easily turned the tables and won the game with rookie slugger Kim Beom-seok's two-run home run to left in the bottom of the fourth inning with one out and a runner on first base.
LG, who got one point for free due to KIA relief pitcher Sa-yoon Kim's poor ball control and ran away with a 5-3 lead, secured the victory by running away with a 6-3 lead with Kim Hyun-soo's timely hit in the bottom of the 8th inning with 2 outs and 1st and 2nd bases.
On this day, 85,671 spectators visited five stadiums across the country, allowing professional baseball to exceed 2 million spectators in just 148 games and increase the season's cumulative attendance to 2,028,999.