This year’s Elot Lasico was a game where 20 players batted and LG won (Yesterday’s professional baseball) |

“Football is a sport where 22 people chase a ball for 90 minutes, and Germany wins at the end.”

So said BBC football commentator Gary Lineker (64).

Well, we can say that “Elot Lasico” is a game in which 20 players played for 216 minutes and LG won in the end.

On the 25th, LG defeated Lotte 9-6 in the visiting professional baseball game held at the Sajik Stadium in Busan.

In the top of the 11th inning, with the score tied at 6, LG’s Park Hae-min (34) hit a single to sweep Lotte center fielder Jang Doo-sung (25) to third base with the bases loaded and two outs, leading the team to victory. -6.

LG has a record of 9 wins and 2 losses in 11 Elot Lasico games, with an average time of 3 hours and 36 minutes until today.

LG, currently ranked second, has won seven consecutive games, catching up with the leader Kia by six wins.

Kia lost to NC 4-7 at home in Gwangju today, ending their 8-game winning streak.

On that day, LG was trailing Lotte 0-5 until the bottom of the fourth inning.

LG started chasing after Austin (31) hit a 3-run home run in the top of the 5th inning, but Oh Ji-hwan (34) hit a sacrifice fly in the top of the 7th inning and fell behind 4-5. There were no outs on first and third bases.

In the top of the 8th inning, Shin Min-jae (28 years old) hit a single in time to tie the score at 5-5.

In the bottom of the 8th inning, LG gave up a sacrifice fly by Park Seung-wook (32) and turned the game around 5-6, but the pinch hitter Koo Bun-hyuk (27) came on with 2 outs and 1st and 1st. The 9th hit a timely hit to tie the game.

Both teams completed their offense in the 10th inning without scoring, and Park Hae-min finally hit the winning single in the 11th inning.

Professional baseball has a 10-team system. Rakuten was leading by more than five points at the end of the fourth inning for the first time in an Elot Lasico match since 2015, but eventually gave up the game.yes.

LG won the game despite the fact that starting pitcher Choi Won-tae (27) was kicked off the mound after a headshot in the third inning.

2,885 days (7 years, 10 months, and 25 days) have passed since the Sajik game on August 31, 2016, and LG’s starting pitcher Elote Rasico has only managed one-third of an inning.

In Jamsil, lowest-ranked (No. 10) Kiwoom beat Doosan 6-1 to avoid a series sweep.

On this day, high school graduate Kim Yoon-ha (19), who served as Kiwoom’s starting pitcher, pitched seven straight scoreless innings and won his first victory since his debut.

Kim Yoon-ha was a famous athlete who was the fifth cousin of “Korea Express” Park Chan-ho (51) when he was a student at Jangchung High School.

Park Hyun-soon (52), a professor at Korea Golf University, is the mother of former Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) player Kim Yoon-ha and Park Chan-ho’s cousin.

In Suwon, KT defeated SSG, which was ranked fifth the day before, 4-2 and became the only fifth place.

KT lost 1 run in the top of the second inning, but Hwang Jae-gyun (37) hit a 3-run home run in the bottom of the second inning and Sim Woo-jun (29) hit consecutive home runs.

In the top of the 8th inning, SSG scored a run thanks to a timely hit by Lee Ji-young (38), but it was still not enough to turn the game around.

The match between Samsung and Hanwha could not be held due to sudden rain before the game started.

▽Starting pitcher for Game 26 △Jamsil: Hanhwa Moon Dong-joo-LG Lim Chan-kyu △Literature: Doosan Balajovic-SSG Anderson △Daegu: KT Uhm Sang-baek-Samsung Baekje-hyeon △Changwon: Lotte Park Se-woong-NC Lee Jae-hak △Gocheok: KIA Nail-Kiwoom Kim In-beom

Reporter Hwang Kyu-in kini@donga.com