Professional baseball KIA Tigers have left Magic Number ‘1’ in the postseason for the first time in 4 years.
KIA won 4-3 with Dongwon Park’s home run in the 8th inning in the home game against the LG Twins in the 2022 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League held at the Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 6th.
With this win, KIA will either win one out of the remaining two games, or the sixth place NC Dinos with three games remaining will settle for fifth place with only one loss.
KIA’s last postseason appearance was in 2018, when coach Kim Ki-tae led the team.
The one who took the lead was LG, who confirmed second place in the regular season.
LG took 1st and 3rd with a ball hit by Chang-ki Hong and a hit from Park Hae-min in the first inning, and then scored one point first with a well-timed hit by Geon-chang Seo.
Then, Oh Ji-hwan’s one-run time at 1st, 1st and 3rd base went away.
Desperate for a win, KIA loaded first and second bases with a walk by Kim Seon-bin following a two-run double by Choi Hyung-woo in the 4th inning.
At this time, Dae-in Hwang’s lost bat led to a lucky hit that fell between the first baseman, second baseman and right fielder, making it 1-2.
In the sixth inning, Choi Hyung-woo’s double and Hwang Dae-in’s timely hit continued, making KIA tied 2-2.
Then, in the 7th inning, Chae Eun-seong hit a one-run homer in the 12th inning, giving the team the lead once again.
In the eighth inning, KIA turned the tide with one home run.
After the first out, Dae-in Hwang made a hit and was replaced by Do-Young Kim, the second baseman, and Do-Young Kim brought second base and opened up a scoring opportunity.
At this time, Dong-won Park, who appeared at the plate, drew a two-run arc over the left-field wall after a full-count game with LG’s Baek Seung-hyun.
This is Park Dong-won’s 18th home run of the season.
KIA Gorffen, who kept the mound from 1st in the 8th Jung Hae-young got the valuable win by clearing 3 outs with a triple in the 9th.
LG right-hander Lee Ji-kang went down the mound after meeting the requirements for a winning pitcher with 5 innings, 5 hits, 3 walks, 1 strikeout and 1 run in his first start, but he delayed his first win to another opportunity because of a team loss.
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