2024-08-01 08:47:41
Doosan defeats KIA 30-6… Jangdan explodes with 28 hits
Jared with 8 RBIs, ties all-time foreign hitter record
The professional baseball team Doosan Bears pounded the KIA Tigers’ mound and scored 30 runs in a single game for the first time in KBO League history. At the same time, they also achieved the largest scoring margin in history.
Doosan won 30-6 in the 2024 Shinhan Sol Bank KBO League match against KIA held at Gwangju Kia Champions Field on the 31st.
24 points is the largest score difference in KBO League history. The previous record was 23 points, when KIA beat Lotte 23-0 at Sajik Stadium in Busan on July 24, 2022.
Moreover, the 30 points scored by Doosan are the most points scored in a single game in the history of the KBO League. Since the inception of professional baseball in 1982, Doosan is the first team to score 30 points in a single game. The previous record was 27 points scored by the Samsung Lions against the LG Twins on May 4, 1997.
Doosan (53 wins, 2 draws, 50 losses), which won two games in a row, succeeded in reclaiming 4th place.
On this day, Doosan hit 28 hits, and all starting batters recorded hits and runs. Doosan’s new foreign batter Jared Young led the attack with 5 hits, 2 home runs, and 8 RBIs in 6 at-bats, while Kang Seung-ho supported with 4 hits, 1 home run, and 6 RBIs in 6 at-bats, and Kim Ki-yeon supported with 5 hits, 4 RBIs in 7 at-bats.
Jared’s eight RBIs are tied for the most RBIs in a single game by a foreign hitter.
Doosan starting pitcher Keisho Shirakawa recorded his first win since transferring to Doosan and his third win (3 losses) of the season, allowing 6 hits and 3 runs in 5 innings.
KIA (60 wins, 2 draws, 40 losses), which was in first place after suffering a crushing defeat, fell into a two-game losing streak.
KIA starting pitcher Kim Do-hyun suffered his fifth loss of the season (2 wins, 3 holds) after a poor showing of 2⅓ innings, allowing 8 hits (1 home run), and 6 runs.
Doosan, who was losing 1-2 after two innings, scored 7 runs in the top of the third inning.
After leadoff hitter Heo Kyung-min got on base, Jared hit a go-ahead 2-run home run. After that, with Kim Jae-hwan’s infield hit and Kang Seung-ho’s double, Kim Ki-yeon hit an RBI infield hit with 1 out and runners on 2nd and 3rd, and Kang Seung-ho scored when the opposing team’s wild pitch put a runner on.
In the ensuing bases-loaded opportunity, Heo Gyeong-min hit a double that brought in both runners.
Doosan, which added one point in the 4th inning, did not slow down its offensive.
In the top of the fifth, Jared and Kim Jae-hwan drew walks to create a 1-out, 1-2 opportunity, and Kang Seung-ho hit a three-run home run to left field. After that, Kim Ki-yeon’s double and Jeon Min-jae’s triple scored two more runs.
Doosan’s bats never cooled down.
In the top of the sixth, Jared and Kim Jae-hwan each hit a two-run home run, and after Jo Su-haeng’s RBI single to right field, Jared hit a three-RBI double. Then, with the bases loaded, Kang Seung-ho drew a push-out walk to add another run, and Kim Ki-yeon hit a two-RBI single to score 11 runs in just one inning.
Doosan, who seized the opportunity to win early, added 5 more runs in the top of the 7th with Jared’s 1 RBI hit, Kim Jae-hwan’s push-out walk, and Kang Seung-ho’s 2 RBI double, becoming the first team in KBO League history to score 30 runs in a single game.
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2024-08-01 08:47:41