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‘Song Seong-moon and Park Byeong-ho’ Kiwoom, 2nd consecutive win in the second half… kt 4 wins in a row

Song Seong-moon is happy

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Shin Chang-yong = Pro baseball’s Kiwoom Heroes beat kt wiz two days in a row with two home runs from Song Seong-moon and Park Byeong-ho.

Kiwoom defeated kt wiz 4-1 in the home match of the 2021 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League held at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 11th.

Kiwoom showed his potential by winning two consecutive victories in the second half of the year despite various adverse events. On the other hand, kt fell into a quagmire of four straight losses.

Kiwoom starter Choi Won-tae took 5 wins (5 losses) of the season with 5 hits and 1 run in 5⅔ innings. Song Seong-moon and Park Byeong-ho detonated cannons one by one to lighten Choi Won-tae’s shoulders.

kt was caught up in a mistake this day as well as the day before. As the day before, shortstop Shim Woo-jun and third baseman Hwang Jae-gyun made mistakes, and both errors led to runs.

kt starter Sook-Jun Sook-Jun took 4 losses (3 wins) of the season with 4 runs (2 earned) in 3 ⅓ innings, 4 hits, 4 4 4 balls.

It was Kiwoom’s responsibility to subdue the baseline. Kiwoom hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the first inning, where Kim Hye-sung went on base due to a shortstop error, and Song Seong-moon jumped over the right-middle fence.

Song Seong-moon, who returned to the team after being discharged from the military on the 6th of last month, reported a home run in the season after 4 games.

It was the first home run in 720 days since the match against the Gocheok KIA Tigers on August 22, 2019.

Kiwoom took a step further by hitting a solo home run in mid-month by Byeong-ho Park, the leading hitter, in the bottom of the second inning.

KT recovered one point with Yuhan-jun’s sacrifice fly in the early 3rd inning. In the continuous two-off first and second bases, Jang Seong-woo’s batted ball was caught right in front of the center fence.

A more disappointing scene came after the airborne shift.

At the bottom of the third inning, kt donated one point to run away to Kiwoom when third baseman Hwang Jae-gyun slipped a ground ball hit from 2nd and 2nd base in the third inning.

KT fell to its knees as it failed to attack Kiwoom’s bullpen following Choi Won-tae, Kim Jae-woong, Kim Seong-min, and Kim Tae-hoon.

Kim Tae-hoon filled the void in Jo Sang-woo by harvesting saves for two days in a row.

changyong@yna.co.kr