Miracle Jamsil back-to-back LG, Austin Moon Bo-kyung consecutive hitters' home runs! 0:6→6:6 It's a curse at the origin of the game
Aug 21, 2025
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In Game 3 of the Weekday Series against the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Stadium on the 21st, LG put the game at the bottom of the seventh inning to square one at 6-6.
LG faced a crisis with runners on first and third bases with no outs in the first inning, showing a different empty spot in defense at the beginning of the game. When Lotte's Ko Seung-min hit an ambiguous fly ball, he even allowed third baseman Hwang Sung-bin to rush home, giving up the first run. Yoo Kang-nam's timely hit followed, making it 0-2. For Lotte, it is the first point scored on the 18th and 14 games since the game against Kiwoom in Gocheok on the 3rd.
In the third inning, Ko Seung-min and Reyes made first and second bases with no outs, and made it 3-0 with third baseman Moon Bo-kyung's bad pitch when Yoo Kang-nam's sacrifice bunt. Na Seung-yeop's ground ball steadily added one more point, 4-0.
And in the top of the fourth inning, Lee Ho-joon's solo shot, which no one expected, broke out. Lee Ho-joon appeared as the leadoff hitter, hitting a 137km fork on the second pitch at the ball count of 1B0S and sending it wide over the right fence. It is his first home run since he joined Lotte in the third round of last year's rookie draft.
LG also gave up one more point in the top of the fifth inning and trailed 0-6. But the reversal was from now on.
In the bottom of the sixth inning, Austin hit and Moon Bo-kyung walked to get on base. Lotte's bench, which did not have a proper bullpen, demanded Lee Min-seok 'a little more', but he couldn't hold on anymore when Kim Hyun-soo walked out and loaded the bases with no outs.
However, for the second consecutive day, Jung Cheol-won also fell short of expectations. Oh Ji-hwan hit an RBI timely hit and Park Dong-won struck out, but he added one point when Jung Cheol-won threw a wild pitch, and Koo Bon-hyuk's two-run timely hit hit reached 4-6.
With two outs and runners on the second and third bases, he failed to target Lotte's Jung Hyun-soo, ending the attack.
Lotte Bench pushed Chung Hyeon-soo in the seventh inning, but it was concluded to be a great mistake.
Leading hitter Austin fired a large home run that almost became an out-of-the-field home run, followed by Moon Bo-kyung, who crossed the far left-center fence in Jamsil with consecutive batter home runs, quickly tying the game 6-6.
Lotte eventually took out Choi Jun-yong's card, which he had saved, and Choi Jun-yong finished the seventh inning after struggling to reach first and second bases with two outs. However, the game has already gone back to square one.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
