adminSSG Landers succeeded in recapturing the first place.
SSG won 10-2 in the home game against KT Wiz held at SSG Landers Field on the 4th. With this victory, SSG finished this week’s 3 consecutive matches with 2 wins and 1 loss in the ‘Winning Series’, and recently recorded 2 consecutive wins. After the season opened, he pushed back the Lotte Giants with a 17-10 win rate of 0.630 and rose to the top again.
On the other hand, KT fell into a two-game losing streak after escaping from a nine-game losing streak.
SSG attacked from the beginning. SSG started with Kirk McCarty and KT with Bo Schulser. SSG made a ‘big inning’ to score 5 points at the end of the first inning when it was 0-0.
Leading batter Choo Shin-soo was caught with an outfield fly, but second batter Choi Joo-hwan hit a solo home run. SSG, who picked the first runner, began accumulating runners with Choi Jeong and Guillermo Heredia’s consecutive walks. Hanyu Island strikes out at 1st and 2nd base. However, after two outs, Park Seong-han scored an RBI and a timely hit to add an extra point.
It didn’t end here. 2 companies 1st and 2nd base. Choi Hang hit a left-handed three-run home run against Schulser. It was Choi Hang’s first game with the first team this season, a home run in his first at-bat. SSG quickly widened the score to 5-0.
After that, the offense of both teams was quiet. SSG succeeded in overpowering the KT lineup with starter McCarty’s good pitching. At the beginning of the 2nd inning, KT also had lead batter Moon Sang-cheol on base, but the flow was cut off by Kim Joon-tae’s double hit, and after that, he was silent due to a series of three-way offenses.
SSG, who had been quiet, made an extra point in the middle of the game. In the bottom of the 5th inning, Choo Shin-soo walks and Choi Joo-hwan doubles to secure 2nd and 3rd bases. Choi Jeong called in Choo Shin-soo, the third base runner, with a sacrifice fly to left field.
In the bottom of the 6th inning, after Schulser withdrew, he succeeded in scoring against Park Se-jin. Leading batter Park Seong-han크크크벳 walks on base. Afterwards, when Choi Hang’s infield grounder, the opponent’s second baseman made a catch error, and the chances for the 1st and 2nd bases went to Oh Tae-gon. Oh Tae-gon called in one when he hit a single RBI double through left-center.
KT, who had not scored a single point until the 6th inning, attacked the SSG bullpen after McCarty stepped down and scored the first point in the top of the 7th inning. Kim Min-hyeok and Jang Seong-woo’s consecutive hits resulted in 1 run and 1st and 2nd base. Moon Sang-cheol’s batted ball was caught as a straight hit by shortstop, but Kim Jun-tae’s 1 RBI hit hit after 2 outs. KT swallowed the disappointment as Moon Sang-joon struck out on a missed swing in the continued opportunity to load the bases.
SSG then ran away again. At the bottom of the 7th inning, Hanyu-seom fired a two-run gun against Kim Min in a chance with one out and first base. Hanyu Island attacked the 148km fastball and connected it with a home run over the right fence. The first home run of the season that Hanyu Island had been waiting for finally hit.
SSG, which was leading 9-1, maintained an 8-point lead with Choi Sang-min’s infield grounder RBI from a chance to load bases in the bottom of the 8th inning after an additional run in the top of the 8th inning. In the top of the ninth inning, Shin Heon-min blocked the bases without a run, and SSG’s second consecutive victory was confirmed.