Nail art pitching + Lee Chang-jin's atonement + coach change match-winner, Trinity KIA, and Samsung's 3rd consecutive loss to reclaim 5th place
Aug 12, 2025
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KIA Tigers escaped from two consecutive losses and succeeded in retaking fifth place by narrowly outpacing KT, which lost to LG on the day.
KIA won 5-1 against Samsung at Lions Park in Daegu on the 12th.
It was a match where the harmony of the two-hitter stood out.
Ace Nails dominated the game with dancing art-pitching. He recorded his 17th quality start with four hits, one walk, nine strikeouts and no runs in seven innings, his seventh win of the season (two losses). It is a three-game winning streak since the match against NC on June 15.
Lee Chang-jin, who provided an excuse for losing the match against NC due to a mistake in batting judgment on the 10th, made a three-hit game for the first time this season and 359 days since the game against LG in Jamsil on August 18 last year.
Coach Lee Bum-ho responded to Lee Chang-jin's batting judgment mistake before the game, saying, `I think they were very difficult hits. It's very hard to judge the balls that hit the end of the bat when they swing hard"I covered up the player who made a mistake. "I play my best, and I think the players are doing their best enough in those situations. If I say I'm shaken because of that, I think there will be more difficult parts for the players to play. I told the staff that I had to focus once again after the past game. In the next game, there will be another game where Changjin catches it in a better enough situation, so I'm preparing it without much care", he explained.
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The first victory in the first game after the coaching staff reorganization was also meaningful.
Coach Lee Bum-ho reorganized the coaching staff with 40 games left in the season to renew the atmosphere ahead of the away game in Daegu in a new week. As coach Lee Dong-gul was promoted to the main pitching coach of the first team, he changed his position to the first team bullpen coach Lee Jung-ho, a pitching coach of Futures. Lee Hae-chang, the battery coach of Futures, served as the first-team battery coach. Pitcher coach Jung Jae-hoon and battery coach Takeshi Nakamura went down to the Futures League. KIA explained "The two coaches will go down to the Futures team and focus on nurturing prospects"
Before the Samsung match held at Daegu Lions Park on the 12th, manager Lee said, "(It's an important time, and) I thought about the (team) atmosphere and such, and although he's suffering a lot from battery pitchers and battery pochs, I thought the atmosphere should be changed again. That's why I made a change." He explained the background of the change in sorrow.
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In the third inning, leader Na Sung-bum scooped up Lee Seung-hyun's 140km low fastball and ran one more step over the right-center fence (season No. 6) with Kim Ho-ryeong's consecutive hits on the first and third bases with one out and Kim Sun-bin's sweeping double on the right-wing line.
With nails dominated until the seventh inning, Choi Ji-min in the eighth inning and Kim Ki-hoon (1 run) in the ninth inning kept the victory.
KIA led the batting line with Lee Chang-jin's three hits and Na Sung-bum and Oh Sun-woo's three RBIs with multiple hits. Na Sung-bum had a double in the second inning, recording a career-high 350 doubles (18th all-time). Choi Hyung-woo, who played in his 100th game of this season, set a record for playing in 100 games (the first in the KBO League) for 18 consecutive seasons. He also recorded 1,3004 pitches (the third in all time) with a hit ball in the second inning.
Samsung lost for the eighth time (4 wins) in the season, as starter Lee Seung-hyun threw a lot of balls from the beginning and withdrew early with eight hits and five runs in three ⅓ innings.
The lineup was tied up by Nail, and the team lost three consecutive games without taking a chance to turn the tables due to many lost points in the early stages. The comfort of the day was the quality pitching of the second pitcher Yang Chang-seop (three hits and one walk in four innings) and the third pitcher Yuk Sun-yup (one ⅔, no hits, two walks and no runs).
Photo provided = KIA Tigers
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
