Samsung, LG stop 8 consecutive wins and start to finish last…

kt ranked 3rd with a 7-game winning streak (overall)

SSG, ‘Baby Beast’ Choi Ji-hoon catches Lotte with a diving catch and escapes

with 3 consecutive losses ‘Young-chul Yoon,

6 innings, 3 runs, 7 wins in the season’.

The Samsung Lions

The Samsung Lions, the lowest in professional baseball,

stopped the winning streak of the leading LG Twins with the batting power

of fourth hitter Kang Min-ho and the fighting spirit of

starting pitcher David Buchanan.

Samsung won a 5-4, one-point victory 안전놀이터

in the home game against LG in the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League

held at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 4th.

Samsung ended its 5-game losing streak

against LG and 5-game losing streak on Friday at the same time,

and LG recently ended its 7-game winning streak and

also ended its 4-game winning streak.

After trailing 0-2 with two outs in the third inning,

Samsung followed up with Kim Seong-yoon’s walk,

second base stolen, and Kim Hyeon-joon’s timely hit,

Kang Min-ho’s 13th solo home run of the season

balanced the game in the fourth inning.

Shin Min-jae’s timely hit in the 5th inning led LG again by 1 point,

Samsung Lee Jae-hyeon’s timely hit from 2 out 2nd base

in the 7th inning tied the game 3-3 again.

In the beginning of the 8th inning,

Kim Hyun-soo hit his third solo home run

Samsung was driven to the cliff.

After two outs in a counterattack at the end of the 8th inning,

Ryu Ji-hyeok single hit and Koo Ja-wook

double hit the runners on 2nd and 3rd base.

Appearing at bat, Kang Min-ho did not miss LG Yoo Young-chan’s

6th pitch slider miss and lightly pushed it to hit a come-from-behind

2 RBI double that cut through the right middle of the outfield.

Samsung secured the victory by posting Oh Seung-hwan,

who finished the ninth inning with a 5-4 lead.

Appearing at bat, Kang Min-ho did not miss

LG Yoo Young-chan’s 6th pitch slider miss and lightly pushed it

to hit a come-from-behind 2 RBI double that cut

through the right middle of the outfield.

Samsung secured the victory by posting Oh Seung-hwan,

who finished the ninth inning with a 5-4 lead.

In Jamsil, kt wiz, led by Hwang Jae-gyun’s final home run,

beat the Doosan Bears 4-3 and jumped to third place

alone with a seven-game winning streak.

Hwang Jae-gyun’s season 2 two-run

homer in the 7th inning against 2-2 led kt,

which had fallen to the bottom at the beginning of the season,

to compete for the upper ranks.

After two outs, kt took advantage of the

opportunity with Park Byung-ho’s single hit,

and Hwang Jae-gyun pushed Jeong Cheol-won’s

third fastball over the right wall to lead 4-2.

KT, which was at the bottom of the league until

June 4 due to line injuries to key players such as So Joon So and Baek-ho Kang,

has continued its remarkable upward trend with 30 wins and 13 losses

in 43 games, with an odds ratio of 0.698.

8th inning

In the 8th inning, Doosan followed up with 1 point with Kim In-tae’s

timely hit in the 8th inning with 2 outs, 1st and 2nd base, and in the 9th inning,

Heo Kyung-min’s walk and Su-bin Sue’s bunt

took the opportunity to tie the score with 1 out and 2nd base.

However, Kim Jae-ho struck out with an infield

floating ball and Jang Seung-hyun struck out looking.

In Busan

SSG Landers, backed by ‘Baby Beast’ Choi Ji-hoon’s

fantastic diving catch, defeated the Lotte Giants 4-1

escaped a three-game losing streak.

Thanks to the league leader LG being caught by Samsung,

the runner-up SSG narrowed the gap with LG

to 4.5 games and laid the foundation for chasing the lead.

SSG beat Lotte starter Lee In-bok from the beginning of the game,

scoring 1 point with Choi Joo-hwan’s sacrifice

fly in the 1st inning and adding 2 points with Choi Ji-hoon and Choi Ju-hwan’s

consecutive timely hits in the 3rd inning.

In the fourth inning, Choo Shin-soo hit a sacrifice fly to make it 4-0.

After making up for one point with Nico Goodrum’s

infield hit in the 5th inning,

Lotte continued the opportunity with two bases

loaded with Lee Jung-hoon’s walk.

Here, Yoon Dong-hee hit the ball in the right-middle of the outfield,

but SSG center fielder Choi Ji-hoon ran to the right field

and threw himself to trap the ball in his glove.

In the 9th inning, when Lotte was dragged 1-4,

Dong-hee Yoon withdrew due to double play.

In Changwon, the NC Dinos, who are in the middle of a mid-level competition,

overcame the Kiwoom Heroes 4-2 and raised their ranking from 5th to 4th.

At the end of the first inning, which was trailing 0-1,

NC tied the score with Jason Martin’s timely hit,

in the third inning, Park Gun-woo’s two RBIs and doubles from 2nd and 3rd base

succeeded in turning the game around.

In the 8th inning with a 3-2 lead, Kwon Hee-dong

scored a valuable wedge point with a sacrifice

fly to center fielder from 1 out 3 base.

NC Park Gun-woo raised his batting average to 0.303 for

the season with 3 hits and 2 RBIs in 4 at-bats.

Left-handed pitcher Jeong Gu-beom,

the 1st pick in the 2020 NC 2nd round,

started for the second time this season and failed

to complete the 5th inning with 3 hits, 5 walks,

1 strikeout and 1 run in 4⅓ innings,

but threw the longest inning since his debut.

9th place Kiwoom, who lost 6 consecutive losses,

was chased by the lowest Samsung by one game.

In Gwangju, the KIA Tigers won two consecutive victories

by defeating the Hanwha Eagles 9-3, with high school graduate

rookie Yun Young-chul’s skillful pitching that was uncharacteristic of a rookie.

Yoon Young-cheol, who struck out 6 with 91 balls and blocked 6 innings

with 9 hits, 2 walks and 3 runs, earned his 7th win (4 losses)

of the season and continued competing with Hanwha Moon Dong-ju

(6 wins, 7 losses) for the rookie award.

KIA easily scored 2 points in the first inning with Na Seong-beom’s

season 9 solo arch and Kim Sun-bin’s timely hit,

and in the 4th inning Choi Won-joon’s 1

RBI triple and Na Seong-beom’s timely hit led to a 4-1 lead.

In the 5th inning, Lee Woo-sung’s 1 RBI and

Choi Won-joon’s 2 RBI hits tied the score to 7-3 and seized the victory.

Kim Do-young succeeded in stealing his ninth base

in the 8th season, becoming the second player in the

history of the KBO League to steal 4,800 bases.

For Hanwha, Nick Williams’ 3rd home run of the season in the 4th inning

Noh Si-hwan’s 2nd run homer of the season

in the 5th inning were all the points scored.