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| The game between KT and Lotte at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 3rd. The bases loaded with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning. KT players won by Lotte's walk-off error when Jang Jin-hyuk hit an infield ground ball. Suwon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.09.03/ |
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| Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung, who is replacing center field with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning. |
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| 9회말 1사 만루. Lotte players who gave up the game due to a finishing error when Jang Jin-hyuk hit an infield ground ball. |
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Crisis at the end of the 9th inning. Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung hurriedly replaced the center fielder, but he gave up the game due to a third baseman error.
The game between KT and Lotte took place at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 3rd. 3:0 → 3:2 → 7:2 → 7:8 → 8:8 → 9:8. KT came from behind to win 9-8 after a close game with Lotte. KT, which won, rose to fourth place, and Lotte, which lost unfortunately, fell to sixth place.
Lotte's starting players were Yoon Dong-hee (center fielder), Ko Seung-min (right wing), Na Seung-yeop (first baseman), Reyes (left wing), Kim Min-sung (third baseman), Yoo Kang-nam (capture), Han Tae-yang (second baseman), Son Ho-young (designated hitter), and Lee Ho-joon (striker).
For KT, Huh Kyung-min (third baseman), Stevenson (middle fielder), Ahn Hyun-min (right fielder), Jang Sung-woo (designated hitter), Hwang Jae-gyun (second baseman), Moon Sang-chul (first baseman), Kang Hyun-gu (catcher), Jang Joon-won (striker), and Yoo Jun-kyu (left fielder) started.
Before the game, Lotte was in fifth place, half a game ahead of sixth-place KT, but the ranking changed after Lotte lost to KT. The defeated Lotte moved down to sixth place, while the winning KT moved up to fourth place.
The showdown between the two teams for the fall baseball season was fierce.
KT got off to a good start by scoring three points against Lotte starter Gamboa from the first inning. Lotte also chased immediately in the top of the second inning when Son Ho-young hit a two-run timely hit with the bases loaded with one out.
KT seemed to easily beat Lotte in the bottom of the fifth inning, with Jang Sung-woo hitting a solo home run in left-center and a two-run home run in the sixth inning, widening the score gap to 7 to 2. However, Lotte quickly reversed the game by scoring six points in the top of the seventh inning.
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| The game between KT and Lotte at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 3rd. Lotte Gamboa, who allowed three runs in the bottom of the 1st inning with poor control of his ball control. Suwon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.09.03/ |
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| 2회 1사 만루. Lotte's Son Ho-young made a timely two-run hit. |
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| 7회 2사 2, 3루. Lotte's Han Tae-yang hit a game-changing two-run double. |
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Lotte followed Park Chan-hyung 7-3 with an RBI double, and Reyes' two-run timely hit and Kim Min-sung's one-run timely double hit in a series of one-out full base chances. Yoo Kang-nam struck out swinging on the second and third bases with one out, which seemed to fail the chance to turn around, but Han Tae-yang made a miraculous turnaround from 2-7 to 8-7 with a two-run double that reversed the game.
Lotte turned the game around in the seventh inning, but KT also did not give up. After two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning, KT Jang Joon-won hit a tiebreaking solo shot against Lotte's Yoon Sung-bin. an 8-8 tie.
At 8-8, KT created a closing chance in the bottom of the ninth inning. After one out, Ahn Chi-young and Huh Kyung-min made consecutive hits, with one out and runners on the first and second bases, with a walk by Junghoon Lee, the bases loaded with one out.
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| The game between KT and Lotte at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 3rd. Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung is replacing center fielder at the bottom of the ninth inning with one out and runners on first and second bases. Suwon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.09.03/ |
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| 9회말 1사 만루. When Jang Jin-hyuk hit an infield ground ball, Park Chan-hyung threw home, but the ball fell out and a finishing error came out. |
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| KT players won by Lotte's closing error. |
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With the bases loaded with one out, Jang Jin-hyuk hit four pitches with two balls and one strike to make a ground ball. Lotte third baseman Park Chan-hyung, who caught the ball, threw home to catch the KT third baseman, but the ball popped up and fell into a place where the catcher could not catch it. In that way, Lotte lost 8-9 to KT due to a walk-off error.
Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung tried to strengthen his defense by replacing center field with one out and runners on first and second bases in the bottom of the ninth inning, but he was forced to give up the game due to an unexpected hole in the infield.
Lotte played a fierce game for nearly four hours, but lost the game in vain with a finishing error, not a finishing hit, and gradually moved away from autumn baseball.
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| The game between KT and Lotte at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 3rd. The bases loaded with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning. KT players won with a finishing error when Jang Jin-hyuk hit an infield ground ball. Suwon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.09.03/ |
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| 9회말 1사 만루. KT players won by Lotte's walk-off error when Jang Jin-hyuk hit infield ground ball. |
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| Lotte players who gave up the game with a vain finishing error. |
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
