Austin and Oh Ji-hwan Home Run Chorus... LG Escapes 3 Consecutive Losses and Becomes ‘Magic Number 3’
LG Twins, the leader in professional baseball, completely defeated their ‘Jamsil rival’ Doosan Bears and broke away from a three-game losing streak.
LG came from behind to win 7-4 in the visiting game against Doosan in the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 1st. 카지노사이트킹
LG, which had recently lost three straight games after reaching the 80-win mark due to poor batting, hastened its strides toward confirming first place in the regular league.
On this day, the NC Dinos lost to the Hanwha Eagles, and LG's 'magic number' for direct advancement to the Korean Series became 3.
LG's batting line pounded Doosan's famous player, Raul Alcantara, to its heart's content.
Alcantara, who appears particularly weak when faced with LG, collapsed on this day with 13 hits (2 home runs), 2 strikeouts, and 7 runs in 6⅓ innings.
This is a tie for the most hits and the most runs allowed in a game this season.
Alcantara's season record against LG, including today's game, is 3 games, 3 losses, and an average ERA of 7.88.
After one out in the second inning, LG took the lead with Oh Ji-hwan's double and Park Dong-won's timely hit.
In the 3rd inning, catcher Ak Song-gu came out on Su-haeng Cho's stolen first base, and in the meantime, Jo Soo-haeng hit home to tie the game, but in the 4th inning, Moon Seong-joo's 1 RBI double gave them the lead again.
A strange scene occurred in the 5th inning of the Doosan attack.
LG second baseman Shin Min-jae fumbled the ground ball hit by Yang Seok-hwan with the bases loaded and two outs, then threw it to first base, and the first base umpire declared an out.
Even with all 3 outs counted, Doosan's runners on third base and runners on second base all came home.
At this time, the Doosan bench requested a video review of Yang Seok-hwan, the runner on first base, and the KBO review center declared Yang Seok-hwan safe and at the same time acknowledged the score of the Doosan second base runner.
This is because ‘even if the first baseman threw home, it would have been difficult to prevent the runner on second base from scoring.’
Thanks to this decision, Doosan went back up to 3-2, and LG coach Yeom Kyung-yeop was sent off for protesting.
This is Coach Yeom's second ejection related to a video review protest this season.
LG turned the game around again with the power of its batting.
After Moon Seong-ju's timely hit tied the game in the 6th inning with one out and runners on first and second base, pinch hitter Kim Min-seong hit a hit to make it 4-3.
With bases loaded and one out, Hong Chang-ki's sacrifice fly came out.
In the 7th inning, with one out, Austin Dean and Oh Ji-hwan hit consecutive home runs to increase the score to 7-3.
It is Austin's 22nd home run of the season, and Oh Ji-hwan's 8th of the season.
It is also LG's third 'back-to-back' home run this season.
Doosan took comfort in Yang Eui-ji's 15th one-run home run of the season in the 8th inning.
In the match against Alcantara, LG starting pitcher Ji-gang Lee earned his second win (and third loss) of the season by allowing 3 hits, 2 walks, 3 strikeouts, and 3 unearned runs over 101 pitches in 6 innings.
Lee Ji-gang was even more delighted with his first quality start in his debut (within 3 earned runs in over 6 innings as a starter).