Devers two-run shot → bench clearing → SF win rate exceeded 500%, and Park Chan-ho was summoned
Sep 03, 2025
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The ninth game of the season between the San Francisco Giants and the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on Thursday (Korea time). San Francisco's Lee Jung-hoo witnessed the fiercest bench clearing since his big league debut. No, I participated.
San Francisco's offense in the top of the first inning. Lead Eliot Ramos hit the right field. Raphael Devers, who then came to the plate, pulled an 83-mile sweeper into Colorado left-hander Kyle Freeland's fifth pitch on a two-run homer over the right fence in a two-strike unfavorable count.
The parabolic ball, which drew a large parabolic ball with a 43-degree firing angle and a 103.5-mile batting speed, fell 397 feet into the right foul pole. Devers' 30th home run of the season.
However, after hitting the ball, Devers stood for a long time with the bat on the spot and his waist behind him to check whether it was a home run or a foul. As the ball went inside the foul pole, he made a bat flip and started running slowly. The moment he reached first base, Freeland, who gave up a home run, shouted at him and the verbal fight began. Freeland said "Why are you standing so long after hitting a home run?"
While the referees and coaches stopped him, Devers rushed toward the mound in earnest as soon as he stepped on the first base, and Zilera Freeland threw her glove away and rushed.
It was the beginning of bench clearing. Players from both teams flocked and people trying to fight the stopper got tangled. Matt Chapman and Willie Adames were the first to join the struggle in San Francisco.
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However, Adames and Chapman, who led the physical fight, were sent off before they even entered the batter's box in the first inning and replaced with pinch-hitters. Casey Schmidt instead of No. 3 Adames and Dominic Smith instead of No. 4 Chapman took the batter's box in the first inning. Among the Colorado players, Freeland, who provided the cause of the incident, was declared out.
In the end, San Francisco won 7-4 with Devers' preemptive cannon, reaching the 70th win (69 losses) of the season. For the first time in 24 days since the 10th of last month, San Francisco has achieved a winning rate of over 50%. It is a steep rise of 9 wins and 1 losses in the last 10 games.
Lee Jung-hoo, who played as the seventh center fielder, contributed to the victory by scoring two hits, one walk and one point in three at-bats. Lee Jung-hoo had a batting average of 0.262 (129 hits in 493 at-bats), seven home runs, 48 RBIs, 64 runs, 44 walks, and an OPS of 0.732.
Colorado, on the other hand, lost the first two games of its three home games against San Francisco, losing 100 games (39 wins) this season in a row. This marks the third consecutive year since 2023 that Colorado has lost 100 games.
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Freeland's position, however, was different. He said "I think Devers treated me very insulting after hitting a home run in the first inning. He stood for a long time looking at the ball and had a good time on his way to first base. I spent not a short period of time in the major leagues, and neither did he. I thought it was offensive, and I should remind him of it", he explained.
Then he said "It was only the first episode. You have to be nice and cool. What I want to tell him is 'You insulted me. Coming from our ballpark and being triumphant in that way, it's an insulting act I don't understand.
Freeland, in particular, said "I don't know why Chapman and Adames were sent off. I think it's because they both jumped at me and pushed me, but Devers also pushed me. "I don't understand that I wasn't sent off. I didn't get sent off. I was the one who instigated and encouraged everything, and I understand that I was sent off. "
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In response, MLB.com said, `Even if Devers was sent off, a home run is recognized according to referee Dan Bellino. The Giants don't even have to let go of a pinch runner to replace him. In other words, home runs are recognized.
A similar scene came out on September 27, 2008, against San Francisco and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
San Francisco's Benji Molina hit a superior hit in the bottom of the sixth inning with one out and a runner on the first base, and was replaced by pinch runner Emmanuel Burris. However, through a replay review, the ball was overturned to a home run, creating an ambiguous situation. Molina couldn't come back into the game because she was replaced. In other words, Molina is given a two-run home run, but Burris is given a run.
At the time, when Dodgers pitcher Scott Proctor allowed Molina to tie the game at 2-2 and continued to give up a double and a walk, Park Chan-ho took the mound in relief and handled Oma Biskel with a ground ball to shortstop to finish the inning. Park Chan-ho also took the mound in the seventh inning, walked Dave Roberts (current Dodgers manager) and allowed a heavy hit to Eugenio Belles, who was replaced at first and second bases with one out, and took two runs after his follow-up pitcher got a timely hit.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
