Trade Great Success Oh Won-seok won against LG in 1,319 days + Ahn Hyun-min's three-run shot KT 124, LG's 6th consecutive win stop
May 17, 2025
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KT won 12-4 in the first game of the doubleheader against LG at Jamsil Stadium on the 17th, with Oh Won-seok breaking his losing streak against LG. With the victory in the first round, KT reached the top of 20 wins (three draws and 22 losses).
LG, which won six consecutive games against Samsung and Kiwoom, stopped its winning streak due to the loss of the first game. The team will be trailing Hanwha Eagles (28 wins and 16 losses), who won the first doubleheader against SSG with 29 wins and 15 losses, by one game.
The second game of the doubleheader will be a starting match between LG Coenwin and KT William Cuevas.
In the first game, LG used a large number of right-handed batters to target Oh Won-seok, the opponent's left-handed starter. The starting lineup consisted of Park Hae-min (center fielder), Song Chan-ui (right wing), Austin (first baseman), Moon Bo-kyung (third baseman), Park Dong-won (captor), Kim Hyun-soo (designated hitter), Oh Ji-hwan (striker), Koo Bon-hyuk (second baseman), and Choi Won-young (left wing).
On the previous day, the opponent's starting pitcher was right-handed Cuevas, so left-handed batter Ham Chang-gun was used as the second batter, but Choi Won-young was used instead of Ham Chang-gun on the day.
KT consisted of Hwang Jae-gyun (third baseman), Kim Min-hyuk (designated hitter), Ahn Hyun-min (right fielder), Jang Seong-woo (catcher), Rohas (left fielder), Kim Sang-soo (second baseman), Moon Sang-cheol (first baseman), Bae Jung-dae (middle fielder), and Park Min-seok (striker). Since Rojas is a switch heater, Kim Min-hyuk is the only left-handed batter who will face a left-handed pitcher. Eight of the KT batters faced by LG starter Son Joo-young are right-handed hitters.
LG starter Son Joo-young and KT starter Oh Won-seok both had something in common that they were weak against the opposing team.
Son Joo-young took the mound three times against KT last year, but lost two games without a victory and had a 6.19 ERA. It recorded only one quality start, and the team lost all three times. He also had four losses and an 8.72 ERA in five games against KT.
Oh Won-seok was weak with 3 wins and 8 losses and an 8.25 ERA in 16 games (13 starts) when he was at SSG, but he also took the mound at KT on April 2 this year, which was also sluggish with five runs in four ⅓ innings. The last victory was in the second game of the doubleheader against LG on October 6, 2021, with two runs in six innings. Since then, he has been losing seven consecutive games.
However, Oh Won-seok laughed out of the two on this day. Oh Won-seok became the winning pitcher against LG for the first time in 1,319 days with two runs (one earned run) in five innings, breaking the chain of losing seven consecutive games against LG. Son Joo-young became a losing pitcher with four runs in four ⅔ innings.
KT hitters succeeded in targeting Son Joo-young. KT, which scored two runs first with two outs and runners on the first and second bases with Kim Min-hyuk and Ahn Hyun-min walking consecutively in the top of the first inning, scored two runs with Rojas' right-center hit and Kim Sang-soo's left-handed hit after two outs in the top of the fourth inning, followed by Park Min-seok's triple to right-center and Hwang Jae-kyun's right-handed hit to make it 4-0.
LG had a strange bad luck with no goals even though it had three hits in the bottom of the second inning. After the first-runner Park Dong-won hit a left-handed hit, Kim Hyun-soo hit a double play in front of the second base, and Koo Bon-hyuk hit a double to the left-center following Oh Ji-hwan's left-handed hit, but Oh Ji-hwan ran home and was tagged out with a clean relay play that led to left field, second baseman and catcher, ending without scoring.
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KT replaced LG starter Son Joo-young in the top of the fifth inning, creating an additional scoring chance with two outs and runners on first and third base with hits by Jang Sung-woo and Kim Sang-soo. Pinch hitter Kang Baek-ho got a walk from second pitcher Bae Jae-joon and loaded the bases with two outs. However, the allocation team was caught on a fly to shortstop.
KT starter Oh Won-seok allowed Austin a double on the right-field line after two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning, but he finished the fifth inning by handling Moon Bo-kyung with a fly to the second baseman. With 100 pitches, he allowed eight hits, one walk, five strikeouts, and two runs (one earned run) in five innings and met the requirements for a winning pitcher.
KT scored an extra point in the top of the sixth inning. Leader Park Min-seok hit a double on the left-field line, and LG pitcher Lee Woo-chan threw high to first base during Hwang Jae-kyun's sacrifice bunt, making Hwang Jae-gyun safe and taking the chance to first and third bases with no outs. Kim Min-hyuk hit an RBI right-handed hit from the changed pitcher Kim Young-woo, 5-2. Ahn Hyun-min struck out, but Jang Sung-woo hit a sacrifice fly to left field to lead by four points to 6-2.
LG had a chance to load the bases with one out with one hit and two walks against the changed pitcher Won Sang-hyun in the bottom of the sixth inning, but pinch hitter Ham Chang-gun only got one run from Son Dong-hyun with a sacrifice fly to right field.
When KT added one run in the top of the seventh inning with Kim Sang-soo's double, wild pitch and Kang Min-sung's sacrifice fly, LG followed the one run with Moon Bo-kyung's solo shot in the bottom of the seventh inning.
KT scored five runs with Ahn Hyun-min's three-run shot on four consecutive hits in the top of the ninth inning, immediately widening the score gap to 12-4.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
