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The seagull caught the tiger again.
Lotte defeated Kia 0-3 in a professional baseball game in Gwangju on the 5th.
With this, Lotte has continued its recent three-game winning streak and five-game winning streak against Kia.
Since August 23, 2017, when Lotte and Kia won five consecutive games, 2,478 days (6 years, 9 months and 13 days) have passed.
After the game, Lotte head coach Kim Tae-hyung credited starting pitcher Han Hyun-hee (31) with being the main contributor to the victory.
Han Hyun-hee, who made his first start this year, gave up 2 runs (1 earned) in 5 innings and became the winning pitcher.
This was Han Hyun-hee’s first start in a Lotte uniform and she won the match against Kia.
With this day’s loss, the leader Kia, which has suffered three consecutive defeats recently, has achieved a record of 35 wins, 1 draw and 24 losses (win rate 0.593), which is 0.5 games behind the second place LG (35 wins, 2 draws and 25 losses, win rate 0.583).
On that day, LG defeated Kium 4-2 at Jamsil’s home stadium, ending their five-game losing streak.
At 1:00 in the bottom of the 8th inning, with the game tied at 2-2, LG’s second batter Moon Sung-joo (27) hit a 2-run home run.
Since the automatic ball and strike system (ABS) malfunctioned during Kiwoom’s attack in the top of the 3rd inning, referee Ji-woong Ham was in charge of the ball decisions until the end of LG’s attack in the bottom of the 4th inning.
This game was the first time in this year’s regular season that a “human referee” was responsible for judging the ball.
Third-placed Samsung lost 7-3 away at Munhak, bringing their five-game winning streak to an abrupt end.
SSG Choi Jung (37) hit a two-run home run (18th of the season) over the center wall in the bottom of the fifth inning with two outs and a runner on third base, taking the sole lead in the category, 3-2.
Until the day before, Choi Jung-eun and KT’s Kang Baek-ho (25) were tied for the lead.
If Samsung had won on this day, it might have achieved a “winning streak” with the previous team, but due to the loss, it was eventually caught up by Doosan and fell to fourth place.
On that day, Doosan defeated the home team NC 4-3 in the 11th inning of extra time in Changwon.
NC team suffered 10 consecutive home losses.
Doosan head coach Lee Seung-yeop was ordered out in the top of the seventh inning after protesting a 3-foot defensive interference call on Cho Soo-haung, a call that was not changed even after a video review.
The day before, Coach Lee was ejected for protesting because a safety call for baserunning interference was changed to an out after a video review.
In Suwon, Hanwha defeated home team KT 12-2 and moved up to 7th place.
KT, which lost two games to Hanwha the day before, ranked eighth.
Hanhwa’s Hwang Young-mok (25) hit 4 hits and 4 RBIs in his first game as the leadoff hitter for the first time since his professional debut.
▽6th starting pitcher △Jamsil: Ki-On Kim In-Bum-LG Son Ju-young △Literature: Samsung Lee Ho-Sung-SSG Oh Won-Seok △Gwangju: Lotte Kim Jin-Wook-Kia Yang Hyun-Jong △Suwon: Hanwha Ryu Hyun-Jin-KT Eom Sang-baek △Changwon: Doosan Brandon-NC Im Sang-hyeon
Reporter Hwang Kyu-in kini@donga.com
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