‘Son Ju-young 7 scoreless innings’ LG, revenge on Doosan in 2nd game of doubleheader… 3rd place defense

by times news cr

Doosan wins the first game of the doubleheader
3rd place LG, 2 games behind Doosan

At the 2024 KBO League Doosan Bears vs. LG Twins game held at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 21st, LG starting pitcher Son Ju-young is pitching hard. 2024.07.21. [서울=뉴시스]

The LG Twins of professional baseball maintained their third place by winning the second game of a doubleheader against the Doosan Bears.

LG won 2-0 in the second game of the 2024 Shinhan Solbank KBO League doubleheader against Doosan held at Jamsil Stadium on the 21st.

With this win, 3rd place LG (72 wins, 2 draws, 65 losses) widened the gap with 4th place Doosan (70 wins, 2 draws, 67 losses) to 2 games.

At the same time, they avenged the 7-14 loss in the first game of the doubleheader that was held earlier.

On the other hand, Doosan’s winning streak was stopped at ‘5’.

LG starter Son Ju-young pitched 7 innings, allowing 4 hits, 1 walk, striking out 9 batters, and no runs to earn his 9th win (10th loss) of the season.

Eliezer Hernandez, who was ejected in the first inning for a headshot in the first game of the doubleheader, pitched the eighth and ninth innings without allowing a run to earn his first save of the season (3 wins, 2 losses, 1 hold).

Hernandez is the fourth player in history to start in the first game of a KBO League doubleheader and then pitch in the second game, following Dong-woo Koo (OB Bears) in 1990, Heung-wook Ko in 1998, and Sang-min Oh (both Ssangbangwool Raiders) in 1999.

LG foreign hitter Austin Dean hit a one-run home run (his 32nd of the season) in the first inning to record the game-winning hit.

Kim Min-kyu, who guarded the mound for Doosan, recorded 4 hits, 3 walks, and 2 runs in 4⅓ innings, suffering his first loss of the season.

LG took the lead with a single cannon shot.

In the bottom of the first inning, with two outs and no runners on base, Austin hit a left-field home run.

In the bottom of the 4th, with two outs, Park Dong-won hit a solo home run over the left field fence.

Doosan, which went on the counterattack, had a chance in the top of the 5th inning when leadoff hitter Jared Young hit a single and then successfully stole second base.

However, the chance was lost when Kim Ki-yeon and Kim Jae-ho each hit a ground ball to second base and struck out swinging.

Starting pitcher Son Ju-young did not allow a runner to reach base in the 6th and 7th innings, and passed the baton to Hernandez ahead of the 8th inning.

Hernandez, who finished the bottom of the 8th with a three-up, three-down strikeout, came out again in the bottom of the 9th and got Jeong Su-bin to ground out to third base, then struck out pinch hitter Jeon Da-min with a strikeout and got Jo Su-hang to fly out to shortstop to tie up the game.

[서울=뉴시스]

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