Lotte, are you thankful? SSG stops KIA from winning 4 consecutive games...Kim Kwang-hyun finally won his first away game
Jul 02, 2025
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SSG beat KIA 8-5 in the '2025 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League' held at Gwangju Kia Champions Field on the 2nd. SSG ranked fifth with 40 wins (37 losses and 3 draws) this season.
Kia, ranked fourth, ended its three-game winning streak and recorded 42 wins, 36 losses and three draws for the season. The previous day, he even jumped to the top by catching up to 0.5 games with the third-place Lotte Giants, but he was caught up by SSG and widened the gap by 1.5 games again.
SSG has set up a starting lineup with Jihoon Choi (center fielder), Guillermo Herredia (left fielder), Choi Jung (designated hitter), Han Yu-sum (right fielder), Ko Myung-jun (first baseman), Park Sung-han (striker), Ahn Sang-hyun (third baseman), Cho Hyung-woo (catcher), and Jung Joon-jae (second baseman). The starting pitcher is Kim Kwang-hyun.
KIA faced off with Lee Chang-jin (right wing), Park Chan-ho (striker), Patrick Wisdom (third baseman), Choi Hyung-woo (designated hitter), Ko Jong-wook (left wing), Oh Sun-woo (first baseman), Kim Ho-ryeong (middle fielder), Han Jun-su (catcher), and Park Min (second baseman). The starting pitcher is Lee Do-hyun.
Kim Kwang-hyun won the away game for the first time this season. In five ⅔ innings, he allowed eight strikeouts and five runs with no four outs, 10 hits (one homer) in 87 pitches. He was helped by the batters. It is the fifth win (seven losses) of this season. He secured all four of his previous wins at home games in Incheon, and became the winning pitcher for the first time in seven away games.
After Kim Kwang-hyun went down, Noh Kyung-eun (1 ⅓ inning), Lee In-woon (1 inning) and Cho Byung-hyun (1 inning) continued to throw to keep the victory.
KIA filled the vacancy of foreign pitcher Adam Oler, who was absent from rest, with right-hander Lee Do-hyun. Lee Do-hyun was unable to overcome the tension of his debut in the first division and lost the game with only four hits (one homer) with four walks and one strikeout and four runs in three innings. It was difficult to compete with batters because he did not get zero points and the breaking ball was flat. The maximum fastball speed came out to 148 kilometers, but the average speed was slow to 140 kilometers.
SSG focused on breaking Lee Do-hyun off the mound early. After two outs in the top of the first inning, Choi Jeong's walk and Han Yoo-sum's double gave him a chance to take second and third bases. Ko Myung-joon hit a timely two-run hit to the left of the center field to lead 2-0.
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SSG also faced off with a home run. In the top of the third inning, leadoff hitter Choi Jung got a walk, and Han Yu-sum hit a superior two-run shot to run 4-1.
In the top of the fourth inning, KIA's changed pitcher Kim Min-ju was also destroyed. KIA second baseman Park Min, who was playing a relay, made a throwing error while leadoff hitter Jung Joon-jae got on base with a superior triple. Jung Joon-jae scored with the right to advance as the ball went out of the third base and into the dugout. 5-1. With no outs and no outs on the first base, which was made by Jihoon Choi's walk, Herredia hit a timely double to left field to run 6-1. Park Sung-han hit a sacrifice fly to right field to make it 7-1 with the bases loaded with one out, which connected Han Yu-sum's dune and Ko Myung-joon's hit.
KIA started chasing in the bottom of the fourth inning. With hits by Choi Hyung-woo and Ko Jong-wook, he became first and second base with no outs. Oh Sun-woo only hit a double play by the first baseman, but Kim Ho-ryeong hit a timely hit to the left of the right field with two outs and third base to narrow it down to 7-2.
Then SSG ran away with another run in the top of the fifth. Leading hitter Cho Hyung-woo lost a double to KIA Lee Ho-min. When Jung Joon-jae stepped down with a fly ball to center field, Cho Hyung-woo tagged up to third base, and the next batter, Jihoon Choi, hit a timely hit to the right to make it 8-2.
KIA pulled Kim Kwang-hyun off the mound in the bottom of the sixth inning by scoring three runs. Leadoff hitter Wisdom opened the scoring with a double. Choi Hyung-woo's pinch hitter Kim Seok-hwan continued the flow with a left-handed hit, and when Ko Jong-wook grounded out to the second base at the first and third bases with no outs, Wisdom, the third baseman, scored to make it 8-3. Oh Sun-woo hit a hit, with one out and runners on first and second bases. Kim Ho-ryeong struck out swinging, but with two outs and runners on first and second bases, Han Jun-su hit a two-run timely double that completely separated the right-center to follow him to 8-5. Kim Kwang-hyun handed the ball over to Noh Kyung-eun, who finished the inning without additional runs.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
