| Samsung Lions starting pitcher Mike Montgomery fights against KIA in Gwangju on the 13th. |
Foreign starting pitcher Mike Montgomery of the Samsung Lions in professional baseball picked up his second win of the season with a good pitch that wiped out the last slump. The Lion Corps’ final boss, Seung-hwan Oh, completed the feat of making the longest 40 saves in the history of Korean professional baseball (KBO).
Montgomery recorded 4 hits, 2 walks, 7 strikeouts and 2 runs (2 runs) in 6 innings against the KBO League KIA Tigers in the 2021 Shinhan Bank SOL held at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 13th.
Montgomery, who debuted in the KBO League on July 4, did not show a good appearance, and after losing against Daejeon Hanwha on August 17 and Suwon KT on the 29th of the same month, on September 4, against Daegu Doosan in two months. recorded his first win.
However, on September 10, he started against Daegu KT and continued to fight in 4 innings, 2 hits, 3 walks and 4 strikeouts.
On the 8th of this month, in the game against disciplinary action, Changwon NC recorded 3 losses in the season, leaving 2⁄3 innings, 3 hits, 1 home run, 6 walks, 1 strikeout and 4 runs (4 earned runs). It was a pitch with insufficient content to say that he was desperate for nearly a month.
But against KIA that day, it was different. Although they conceded 1 run each in the 2nd and 5th innings, the 1st, 4th and 6th innings were lightly handled as triplets, and even though they gave up a walk in the 3rd inning, they finished the inning without conceding a goal. Cooking opponents with a powerful fastball, cutter, and changeup, he struck out seven and induced nine ground balls, overwhelming the opponent’s lineup.
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| Outside batter Jose Pirella of the Samsung Lions celebrates after hitting a one-run home run 5-3 in the 8th inning against Gwangju KIA on the 13th. |
Samsung’s batting line helped Montgomery, who continued to fight.
Kim Dong-yeop, who was losing 0-1 in the 3rd inning, took the lead and hit a solo home run equalizing. Then, in the fourth inning, after one shot, Oh Jae-il’s double and Jose Pirella’s just-in-time hit turned the game around. In the 5th inning, Samsung solidified their victory with Oh Jae-il’s two RBI just-time hit. At the end of the 7th, KIA followed with a run, but Samsung again opened up the score with Pirella’s important one-run home run in the beginning of the 8th.
Afterwards, at the end of the 8th inning, Woo Gyu-min climbed the Samsung mound, but gave up a walk and two hits, and was driven to a crisis of one-company bases.
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| Samsung Lions relief pitcher Oh Seung-hwan fights hard after appearing in the 8th inning against Gwangju KIA on the 13th. |
In the end, Seunghwan Oh came on the pitch and finished the 8th with two floating balls. Oh Seung-hwan, who appeared at the end of the ninth inning, also played a 10-ball match with the opponent’s leading batter Park Chan-ho, but he got a hit in the middle, and after handling Won-jun Choi, he allowed a hit to Seon-bin Kim, driving him to 1st and 2nd base.
Oh Seung-hwan threw a 133 km/h slider against Choi Hyung-woo on the 8th pitch and took a breather to deal with a floating ball in center field, and then ended the game by striking out Choi Jeong-yong.
Montgomery, who recorded a ‘quality start (QS, 6 innings and 3 earned runs or less)’ as Samsung won 5-3, recorded his second win (3 losses) of the season, and Oh Seung-hwan took 40 saves for the season. With this, Oh Seung-hwan became the oldest pitcher with 40 saves in KBO league history.
Meanwhile, the gap between the two teams was narrowed by 1.5 games as the league leader kt Wiz was caught off guard by the Doosan Bears while Samsung was winning two straight wins against KIA that day.
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