I'm Lotte's guardian deity! 0:6 → 6:6 Kim Won-joong's toughness against the twin's backside...He was determined by the full count at the bottom of the 10th inning
Aug 21, 2025
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The game between the LG Twins and the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Stadium on the 21st ended in a 6-6 draw after a bloody battle in the 11th inning.
LG Twins, who lead the way with an 80% win rate in the second half of the year, was surprising. It was hot until the end of the game with a back-to-back home run after overcoming a stormy run in the early stages.
However, Kim Won-joong's strong pitching, which prevented his team from losing 11 consecutive games alone, also shone. He was responsible for two scoreless innings. He also overcame the crisis with one out and the bases loaded on his own.
Lotte's starter Lee Min-seok threw well until the fifth inning without allowing a run. On the other hand, LG's Chirinos, who were shaken from the first inning, were sluggish with six runs in five innings.
LG's infield was chaotic from the beginning. Lotte's Hwang Sung-bin walked to get on base in the top of the first inning, and there was no cover for the first base when Park Chan-hyung bunt. Hwang Sung-bin immediately stole third base when he was caught in check. Ko Seung-min's sacrifice fly and Reyes' hit ball followed by Yoo Kang-nam's timely hit to easily score the first point.
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In the top of the fourth inning, Lee Ho-joon, a high school graduate in his second year of debut, hit his first home run in his life that he had never hit in the Futures before, and in the top of the fifth inning, Na Seung-yeop's timely hit following Noh Jin-hyuk's triple widened the gap to 6-0.
It was Lotte's time up to this point. Then the tragedy began.
Lee Min-seok shook sharply in the sixth inning. LG Austin hit and Moon Bo-kyung Kim Hyun-soo's consecutive walks loaded the bases with no outs.
Lotte hurriedly put in Jung Cheol-won, but Oh Ji-hwan's timely hit, Jung Cheol-won's wild pitch, and Koo Bon-hyuk's two-run timely hit led to a four-run big inning in an instant.
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Choi Jun-yong, who plays three consecutive games, including Futures, was in charge of the first ⅔ innings, and Kim Kang-hyun and Kim Won-joong, the closer, generously put in the ninth inning.
Kim Won-joong allowed three consecutive hits to LG Park Hae-min, Park Kwan-woo and Moon Sung-joo in the bottom of the 10th inning, facing the crisis of finishing the bases with one out, but he struck out three consecutive fork balls against Austin. Moon Bo-kyung also grounded out and blocked two innings. Lotte's Park Jin and LG's Lee Jung-yong blocked the 11th inning without losing a point and finished the game with a draw.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
