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| A game between Samsung and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 20th, and Lotte Information-geun, with two outs and runners on the first and second bases, cheers after hitting a two-run double in the bottom of the second inning. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.20/ |
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| The game between Samsung and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 20th, and Lotte Gamboa, with two outs and runners on the first and second bases in the top of the fifth inning, cheers when the video review result was overturned to out. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.20/ |
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| After the game between Samsung and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 20th, Jung Cheol-won is happy after pitching in the top of the eighth inning. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.20/ |
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A solo concert was held at Sajik Stadium in Busan. On the day when four stadium games were canceled in rain due to rainy weather across the country, the winner of the underwater battle was the Lotte Giants.
Lotte won the first game of the weekend series against the Samsung Lions at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 20th by 2-1 and 1 point.
With the victory, Lotte became the third of the 10 clubs to win 40 games, closely trailing the second-place LG Twins by one and a half games and the first-place Hanwha Eagles by two games. Gamboa, a foreign pitcher, won four consecutive starts,
It was a chaotic game as heavy rain as it was thickening and thinning. The head coaches of both teams took turns to the ground, and the referees busily went back and forth in the foul area in front of the backstop, reading the video to catch the microphone.
On this day, Lotte played in the lineup of Kim Dong-hyuk (center fielder), Ko Seung-min (first base), Reyes (right wing), Jeon Joon-woo (left wing), Jung Hoon (designated hitter), Kim Min-sung (third base), Han Tae-sun (second base), Information-geun (catcher) and Jeon Min-jae (striker). The first choice is Gamboa.
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| Lotte-SSG match held at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 14th. Manager Kim Tae-hyung is delighted when Lotte scored an additional point in the top of the eighth inning. Incheon = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.6.14/ |
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Samsung faced Park Seung-gyu (right wing), Kim Sung-yoon (center fielder), Koo Ja-wook (left wing), Diaz (first base), Kang Min-ho (catcher), Jeon Byung-woo (third base), Park Byung-ho (designated hitter), Ryu Ji-hyuk (second base), and Yang Woo-hyun (striker). The starter was rookie Kim Dae-ho.
Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung met with reporters before the game and said, `It seems that there is only one Na Seung-yeop who can return within the first half of the year. I don't know about Jang Doo-sung yet, and I think Yoon Dong-hee and Hwang Sung-bin will only be available in the second half of the year."
Yoon Dong-hee has been a key player in the lineup along with Jeon Joon-woo and Reyes, batting .802 with a 299 batting average and four-homer OPS (on-base plus slugging) this year. He has played center field and right field in defense, and clean-up trio from leadoff to clean-up trio 6-7 in offense.
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| Lotte-Samsung match held at Daegu Lions Park on the 29th. Samsung won the game 9-3. Coach Park Jin-man is welcoming the players. Daegu = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.5.29/ |
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He was found to recover 80% of his thigh muscles during a thorough examination, but concluded that it would be difficult to return in the first half. Jeon Jun-woo and Reyes are in a position to overcome the burden until the first half. In addition to the two players, Jeon Min-jae, who is playing his first full-time starting role since his debut, is also suffering from physical pressure.
Samsung was in a difficult situation with no players to play shortstop. Coach Park Jin-man said, `Lee Jae-hyun has hamstring pain, so it is difficult to play until tomorrow. Kim Young-woong was removed from the first team because of the need for reorganization"I tried to put Yang Yang-geun as the starting shortstop, but there was a lot of traffic when I went to Mungyeong for the physical examination of the Armed Forces Sports Unit (Sangmu). First of all, Yang Woo-hyun will start. According to head coach Choi Il-eon, he said he played all infield positions in the Futures.
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| In the game between Samsung and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 20th, Lotte Gamboa, with two outs and second base, strikes out Samsung Diaz and clenches his fist. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.20/ |
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Samsung missed the chance to take an early lead. Kim Sung-yoon, who got on base with a walk after one out in the top of the first inning, succeeded in stealing the second base, but Diaz struck out on Lotte Gamboa's 155km fastball. In the top of the second inning, Park Byung-ho and Ryu Ji-hyuk struck out on a 157-kilometer fastball, starting with a double by leadoff hitter Kang Min-ho.
Rather, Lotte scored the first point. After two outs in the bottom of the second inning, Samsung right fielder Park Seung-kyu missed the drop point when Kim Min-sung's sharp hit to right field. Han Tae-yang's walk followed by a two-run double that penetrated the third base line by Information Geun to take a 2-0 lead.
Lotte also had a chance at first and second base with two outs in the bottom of the fourth inning with Kim Min-sung's walk and Cho Bo-geun's hit, but Samsung quickly lowered starter Kim Dae-ho and put in Lee Seung-min to prevent the run.
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| In the bottom of the 4th inning, a game between Samsung and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 20th, with two outs and runners on first base, hits. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.20/ |
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According to the flow, the match was decided at the beginning of the fifth inning. The rain that fell on the Busan site gradually became thicker, and it became almost a heavy rain.
At the same time, Lotte's Gamboa's control was shaken. Park Byung-ho allowed consecutive walks to Ryu Ji-hyuk, facing a crisis with no outs and runners on first and second bases. Samsung made a sacrifice bunt with pinch hitter Kim Ji-chan instead of Yang Woo-hyun.
And when pinch hitter Yang Yang-geun grounded out to third base, an ambiguous situation came out. Park Byung-ho, the third baseman of Lotte, and Kim Min-sung, the third baseman of Lotte, collided while returning to third base. Yang Yang-geun's ball seemed to be going outside and came inside, and Park Byung-ho, surprised by this, came inside the third base line while going back. Therefore, Park Byung-ho was declared out.
Lotte's defense quickly threw to the first base to produce a double play, but through Samsung coach Park Jin-man's protest and the consensus of the judges, it is a ball dead at the moment of the defense interference (interpier) on the third base. So the conclusion came out that 'two outs and one base and two bases' Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung also talked with the judges with a look full of dissatisfaction, but soon agreed. The judges also delivered their conclusions to the fans through the microphone.
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| In the game between Samsung and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 20th, Lotte third baseman Kim Min-sung and third baseman Park Byung-ho are in contact when Samsung Yang Yang-geun sees the infield ground with one out and runners on the second and third bases in the top of the fifth inning. Judging that there was no intention of contact, only third baseman Park Byung-ho declared out. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.20/ |
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Samsung's next batter, Kim Sung-yoon, is a grounder to the pitcher. However, Gamboa's throw was slightly off the mark. The first base trial declared Lotte's first baseman Ko Seung-min's foot to be safe, but the video reading room reversed it to out, judging that Ko Seung-min reached out desperately scratching his foot and his foot touched the base at the moment of the final port.
Samsung pitched veteran Oh Seung-hwan as its third pitcher ahead of the bottom of the sixth inning. Lotte had Han Tae-yang's double after two outs, but failed to score an additional point due to the failure of a follow-up. The loss of a chance is the end of the flow.
In the top of the seventh inning, Samsung fired his 13th solo shot of the season against Gamboa following consecutive home runs (seasons 11 and 12) the previous day, sparking a counterattack. In the ball count 2B0S, he hit a 151km low fastball toward the body on the third pitch and crossed the left-center fence as it was. It was a flash home run with a batting speed of 169.3km, a distance of 125m, and a launch angle of 34.7 degrees.
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| A game between Samsung and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 20th, and Samsung's Park Byung-ho is running around the base after hitting a chasing solo home run in the top of the seventh inning. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.20/ |
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The shaken Gamboa gave up a walk to Ryu Ji-hyuk, and Lotte's second pitcher Chung Hyun-soo took over the mound. The next batter, Kim Ji-chan, hit a sharp pitch in front of center field, but was caught by a diving catch that flew Lotte center fielder Han Seung-hyun's body. The first baseman Ryu Ji-hyuk also failed to return and double-out. That's how Lotte got through the crisis.
In the top of the eighth inning, Jung Chul-won boldly played three consecutive games, and Jung Hoon's wedge shot broke at the bottom of the eighth inning. Since then, there has been an emotional conflict between Samsung catcher Kang Min-ho and first baseman Cha Jung-gu immediately after the next batter Kim Min-sung's strikeout.
Lotte pitched closer Kim Won-joong in the top of the ninth inning. It is a three-game winning streak following two consecutive wins against Hanwha. Kim Won-joong kept the win without losing a point.
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| A game between Samsung and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 20th, and Kang Min-ho, a catcher of Samsung with two outs at the bottom of the eighth inning, at the Lotte Han Tae-yang at bat?? Cha Jung-gu is making a fierce protest against the first base umpire. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.20/ |
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However, the rain that fell all day ended Lotte's bid to set a new sales record for consecutive home games. Lotte has been selling out 22 consecutive games, starting with the Hanwha match on April 24 and the Hanwha match on the 19th. If all three consecutive games against Samsung were sold out, it could set a new record that exceeded the previous record of Hanwha (24 consecutive home games).
But the rain blocked the milestone. All advance reservations were sold out except for 220 seats (on-site sales) for the digital vulnerable, but more than 1,500 tickets were canceled ahead of the game due to rain all day. It was later returned to on-site sales, but there were remaining tickets. It was officially estimated that 21,911 out of 22,669 seats were sold at Sajik Stadium.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
