Kim Hyun-soo, Park Dong-won, and Oh Ji-hwan remained at the top of the lineup. Yoo Young-chan's five-out perfect save prevented a critical crisis of extortion
Jun 05, 2025
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Eliaser Hernandez will start, but there is no guarantee of winning because the opponent's starter is Riley Thompson, who has seven wins. No matter how well Hernandez throws, he cannot win unless the lineup bursts, but difficulties were expected as a large number of main players were left out.
However, it is the LG Twins who cheer up when they are in trouble. LG won 3-1 in an away game against the NC Dinos at Changwon NC Park on the 5th. Starter Hernandez led six ⅓ innings with seven hits (one home run) with no four outs, eight strikeouts, and one run, and Austin hit the winning two-run shot in the top of the first inning. And in the top of the fourth inning, backup players scored one run, and closer Yoo Young-chan took the mound in the bottom of the eighth inning with one out and full base, blocking a scoreless run until the ninth inning to secure his first save.
LG had a lineup without a large number of key players at a time when it was trailing the second-place Hanwha by half a game due to its defeat the previous day. It consists of Shin Min-jae (2nd baseman), Park Hae-min (2nd baseman), Austin (1st baseman), Moon Bo-kyung (designated hitter), Moon Sung-joo (left wing), Moon Jung-bin (3rd baseman), Song Chan-ui (right wing), Lee Joo-heon (captor), and Lee Young-bin (striker). Kim Hyun-soo fell out due to discomfort in the right side, and Park Dong-won had a back injury, making it difficult to play. Oh Ji-hwan recently decided to take time to train due to continuous sluggishness. Koo Bon-hyuk, who continued to start on behalf of the main players recently, was also given a break, making it a day for the backup to start.
The first run in the top of the first inning and the increase in the number of pitches by NC's foreign ace Riley allowed him to solve the game in his favor and go.
In the top of the first inning, LG's new table setter relieved Riley's power. After Shin Min-jae continued to foul and grounded out in front of the third baseman after a close game going up to eight pitches, Park Hae-min continued to play a ten-ball game and got on base with a walk. And Austin hit Riley's 150-kilometer fastball as it came to the center, connecting it with a pre-emptive two-run shot over the left fence. With his 18th home run of the season, he approached Samsung Diaz, the No. 1 home run with 22 home runs, by four. Subsequently, Moon Bo-kyung's infield hit and Moon Sung-joo's walk led to a chance of one out and first and second bases, but Moon Jung-bin struck out and Song Chan-eui grounded out in front of the second base, failing to score additional points.
Riley threw 36 pitches in the first inning alone, and although he took the mound until the sixth inning, he threw 108 pitches and went down to three runs in five ⅔ innings.
LG, which was chased 2-1 by Davison's solo shot in the bottom of the second inning, scored an additional point in the top of the fourth inning. Lee Joo-heon's sacrifice bunt and Lee Young-bin's sacrifice fly to center field added one more point to the lead Song Chan's left double.
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The decisive scene is at the end of the eighth episode. As Park Myung-geun was on the verge of loading the bases with one out, LG launched a winning move to put closer Yoo Young-chan in early. In the match against No. 6 Kim Hui-jip, Yoo Young-chan struck out a check swing with a slider that fell for the sixth time in the ball count of 2B2S, and Oh Young-soo escaped the biggest crisis by striking out a swing and miss with a 139km folk ball falling outside at a full count.
He threw 12 pitches in the eighth inning, so he could afford it, but he came back from injury and is under management, so he might be replaced at the end of the ninth inning, but Yoo Young-chan also came out at the end of the ninth inning. He made his first save of the season by catching Kim Hyung-joon a fly to right field, striking out Shin Jae-hwan, and Park Min-woo a fly to center field.
As Hanwha lost to KT on the day, the difference between LG and Hanwha widened to 1.5 games again.
LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop said after the game that `Aston's two-run home run in the first inning allowed us to bring the overall atmosphere of the game to our side, and Lee Young-bin's sacrifice fly in the fourth inning added an additional point, but no additional points have been scored since then and they were chased. In the eighth inning of the critical crisis, Yoo Young-chan played a crucial role in today's victory by fending off the crisis well"Praise the players.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
