‘1-3 → 4-3 → 5-3’ Three-run explosion of a foreigner reversal of fortune, escape from SSG 2nd consecutive victory
SSG Landers succeeded in escaping their 2nd consecutive loss with a single home run.
SSG won a 5-3 come-from-behind victory in the 5th game of the season against KT Wiz in the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League held at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 3rd. After leading 1-3 until the beginning of the 7th inning, he overturned the game with a home run.
Until the beginning of the 7th inning, it was a KT atmosphere. KT starter Sohn So-jun pitched 5 hits (1 home run), 1 strikeout, 1 walk and 1 run in 5 innings, and Park Young-hyun, who pitched in the 6th inning, threw a scoreless run.
The KT batting line showed cohesion even in the absence of foreign hitter Anthony Alford and fourth hitter Park Byeong-ho. Hong Hyun-bin, Jang Seong-woo, Hwang Jae-gyun, and Moon Sang-cheol boasted a good sense of hitting.
The preemptive point was for KT. At the beginning of the 3rd inning, lead batter Lee Si-won chose a walk, and Hong Hyun-bin lived on second base when he grounded in front of the pitcher. SSG starter Kim Gwang-hyun threw it quickly to second base, but it turned out to be a bad throw.
Kim Sang-soo struck out on 1st and 2nd base, and Kim Min-hyeok retired with a fly ball to left fielder. The opportunity seemed to fly away, but Jang Seong-woo struck a timely hit to the left.
Starter Sohn So-jun, who kept the scoreless until the second inning, gave up a solo home run to Kim Min-sik at the end of the third inning, leading 1-0. However, it was blocked up to 5 times without any additional runs. In the meantimeㅋㅋㅋ벳, KT scored one more point.
In the top of the 4th inning, Hwang Jae-gyun, the first batter, hit the center fielder, and Moon Sang-cheol hit a timely double through the left middle.
From the sixth inning with a 2-1 lead, the bullpen moved. After So-Jun Sohn, Young-Hyeon Park blocked the 6th inning with no runs. In the beginning of the 7th inning, KT made it 3-1 with Jang Seong-woo’s left-handed hit from 1 company, 1st and 3rd base.
However, SSG reversed in one shot. In the bottom of the 7th inning, the first batter Kim Min-shik chose a walk. Shin-soo Choo then hit the right-hander. In the chance to secure 1st and 2nd base, pinch hitter Kim Seong-hyun’s bunt went strongly in front of the 1st baseman, and second base runner Kim Min-shik was out at 3rd base.
Choi Jeong was then caught with a floating ball by center fielder. Musa 1st and 2nd base became 2nd 1st and 2nd base. However, Heredia hit KT’s third pitcher, Son Dong-hyun’s 5th pitch, and fired a reverse three-run over the left wall.
SSG had a crisis with one company on first and third base in the top of the 8th inning, but Noh Kyung-eun guided Hong Hyun-bin to a ground ball in front of the shortstop to make a double play and keep a 1-point lead.
In the bottom of the 8th inning, Kim Min-sik’s valuable and timely double hit, which ran one more run, and in the top of the 9th, closer Seo Jin-yong took the mound and kept the team’s victory with a scoreless run. Seo Jin-yong earned his 11th save of the season. This is part 1.
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