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The support of Sajik Stadium, where all 22,669 seats were sold out, was extraordinary. Shouting like waves rippled throughout the game in Sajik-dong. It overwhelmed the loudspeaker sound of the presidential campaign.
The Lotte Giants won the first game of the doubleheader against the Samsung Lions 7-5 at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 17th.
As if the teams ranked 1st and 2nd in team batting average clashed, the ace representing both teams came out, leading to a batting battle.
It was a more valuable come-from-behind victory because starter Park Se-woong was shaken by five runs in five innings. Lotte's victory in the first round spurred its pursuit of the leading LG Twins and the second-place Hanwha Eagles.
On the other hand, Samsung, which lost, is facing a hell of a mid-range battle. As of the previous day, there was only one game difference from the fourth-ranked Samsung to the seventh-ranked KIA, Doosan, and KT. He escaped a nightmarish eight-game losing streak, but took an early five-point lead He suffered a futile upset loss in the game where even foreign ace appeared.
On this day, Lotte was in the lineup of Jang Doo-sung (center fielder), Ko Seung-min (second base), Reyes (left wing), Jeon Joon-woo (designated hitter), Na Seung-yeop (first base), Yoon Dong-hee (right wing), Yoo Kang-nam (possession), Son Ho-young (third base), and Lee Ho-joon (striker). The first choice is Park Se-woong.
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Samsung confronted Koo Ja-wook (designated hitter), Kim Sung-yoon (middle fielder), Kang Min-ho (catcher), Diaz (first base), Kim Young-woong (third base), Ryu Ji-hyuk (second base), Kim Heon-gon (left wing), Lee Sung-kyu (right wing) and Lee Jae-hyun (striker). The starting pitcher is Reyes.
For Lotte, Jeon Min-jae and Pil Seung-jo candidate Choi Joon-yong are back. Choi Jun-yong will be promoted to the first team this year after leaving the spring camp due to an elbow injury, and Jeon Min-jae will return for the first time since 'Headshot'Dune. New foreigner Alec Gamboa also did not have a visa yet, but he joined Sajik Stadium and greeted the team for the first time.
Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung said, `I don't think Jeon Min-jae's condition is a problem. I'll use it as a substitute or logistical expense`"Choi Jun-yong seems to have to get the right timing. I think it would be a burden if I put it in too difficult a situation"I looked back. He also expressed his hope that Choi Jun-yong would ease the burden on Jung Chul-won and Kim Won-joong.
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Samsung coach Park Jin-man welcomed the hot weather, saying, `The weather suits Reyes well.' Looking back on the last Pohang KT match, which achieved an eight-game losing streak and a series win, "It was a little difficult, but the atmosphere has brightened up a lot."
Park Se-woong was not as usual, suffering a full base crisis with two outs from the first inning. In the second inning, a ball hit by leadoff hitter Kim Hun-gon and a hit by Lee Jae-hyun after one out continued the crisis with one out and runners on first and third bases. In the end, Koo Ja-wook's double on the left-field line broke out, and Samsung took the first point. Kim Sung-yoon's two-run double followed, followed by Samsung's 3-0 lead.
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Coach Park Jin-man pressed Park Se-woong with repeated sacrifices to solidify his position. After the leadoff hitter Ryu Ji-hyuk's hit in the third inning, he made a bunt with one out and second base, and Lee Sung-kyu's RBI double made it 4-0. In the fifth inning, Ryu Ji-hyuk got on base with a double, and Kim Hun-gon's bunt made it one out and third base, and Lee Sung-kyu's sacrifice fly led to 5-0.
On the other hand, Lotte had a chance to second base with no outs with a hit by leadoff hitter Jang Doo-sung in the first inning, a stolen base, and a double by Ko Seung-min in the fourth inning, but failed to make use of it.
However, in the top of the sixth inning, the defense strangely became a turning point. Lotte's new left-hander fireballer Hong Min-ki was put in, and Koo Ja-wook's double and Kim Sung-yoon's bunt hit faced a crisis on the first and third bases with no outs. However, he struck out Kang Min-ho and then caught Diaz with a double play and passed without losing a point.
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Lotte, which gained momentum, scored five points at once in the bottom of the sixth inning, bringing the game to square one. Jang Doo-sung Ko Seung-min's consecutive hits and Reyes' fifth three-run home run of the season.
Samsung put in second pitcher Kim Tae-hoon, but Lotte added one more run on Jeon Joon-woo's double, Samsung shortstop Lee Jae-hyun's error, and Yoon Dong-hee's infield ground ball. Yoo Kang-nam then drew a walk and continued his chance to load the bases with one out.
Baek Jung-hyun, a must-win group, was put in early and Son Ho-young was treated as a home-out following a groundout to the first base. However, Lotte took out the pinch hitter Jeon Min-jae's card and tied it at 5-5 with a sacrifice fly to right-center.
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Lotte faced a crisis with one out and runners on first and second in the top of the seventh inning, but Ko Seung-min snatched Samsung's Lee Sung-kyu's hit that seemed to fall next to the second base and connected it with a glove-toss and a luxurious double play to make Sajik Stadium boil.
In the bottom of the seventh inning, when the leadoff hitter Ko Seung-min made a shortstop error, Reyes' walk, and Jeon Jun-woo's sacrifice bunt, he had a chance to turn the tables on the second and third bases with one out. However, Jung Hoon and Yoon Dong-hee only made a mistake.
Samsung is in an ambiguous situation as Lee Ho-sung, a must-win group, moves to the finish line. Lotte made the flow with Jeon Min-jae's hit after two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, and Samsung's fourth pitcher Lee Seung-min drew the bases loaded with consecutive walks. And Reyes, the troubleshooter of the day, hit a two-run timely hit to turn the game around.
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Lotte, which passed the sixth inning well with Hong Min-ki, tied Jung Chul-won (1st ⅓ inning) and Jung Hyun-soo and Song Jae-young (⅓ innings) to last until the eighth inning, and Kim Won-joong, the closing pitcher who took the mound in the ninth inning, played
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I'm done.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
