‘Win-win-win-win-park-win-win-win’… Lotte jumps to 7th place after overcoming 13 runners on base [어제의 프로야구]

Lotte’s Yoon Dong-hee (left) and Park Seung-wook. Courtesy of Lotte

Lotte regained the ‘Chilsung’ title after 43 days.

When a team leaves 13 runners on base, the word “sweet potato” comes to mind for fans.

However, Lotte’s batting line blew away the fans’ frustration with its ‘cider’-like offensive power, producing 19 hits.

Among the batters in Lotte’s starting lineup, there was not a single player who failed to get a hit.

Lotte starting pitcher Kim Jin-wook, who recorded 4 wins and 0 losses in the season. Courtesy of Lotte

Lotte recorded its third consecutive win by defeating its home team Doosan 12-2 in a professional baseball game held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 14th.

With this win, Lotte now has 48 wins, 3 draws, and 55 losses (winning percentage of 0.466), pushing NC (49 wins, 2 draws, 57 losses, winning percentage of 0.462) out by half a game and rising from 8th place to 7th place.

NC, which is on a 6 game losing streak, was scheduled to face 5th place SSG (55 wins, 1 draw, 55 losses, 0.500 winning percentage) at their home stadium in Changwon, but the game was cancelled due to rain.

As of today, Lotte and 5th place SSG are 3.5 games apart.

Lotte’s Jeon Jun-woo, who has a batting average of 0.615 (8 hits in 13 at-bats) in scoring position in August. Courtesy of Lotte

Lotte lost 6-10 against Suwon KT on the 9th, when Park Se-woong (29) started, out of the last 8 games, but won all of the other 7 games.

It is the first time since April 22 to May 3 of last year, 469 days ago, that Lotte has won 7 or more games in 8 games.

Captain Jeon Jun-woo (38), who recorded 4 hits and 5 RBIs in 4 at-bats on this day, said, “Our players’ performance is gradually improving,” and “We will run from now on and definitely advance to the post-season.”

Jeon Jun-woo recently recorded a batting average of 0.439 (18 hits in 41 at-bats) in the last 10 games, raising his season batting average to 0.301.

Kiwoom Choi Joo-hwan hits his third career walk-off home run. News 1

At Gocheok, the home team Kiwoom, which also recorded 13 runners left on base, defeated KIA 2-1, led by Choi Joo-hwan (36)’s walk-off home run.

Kim Do-young (21, KIA), who is one home run away from becoming the youngest player to reach 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in professional baseball, hit a home run in the top of the 5th inning, but had to swallow his disappointment as the ball hit the outfield wall and fell to the ground.

Following the previous day, Gocheok Sky Dome was packed with spectators (16,000 people) on this day as well.

It has been 2,582 days since the KIA game on July 19 and 20, 2017 that Gocheok Sky Dome’s midweek game was sold out for two consecutive days.

Samsung starting pitcher Won Tae-in, who gave up one run in 7 and 1/3 innings. Courtesy of Samsung

In Daegu, Samsung defeated KT 3-1.

3rd place Samsung is chasing 2nd place LG, which lost 5-9 to Hanwha in Daejeon, by half a game, while 6th place KT is 2 games behind 5th place SSG.

With 24,350 people visiting Daegu Stadium on this day, the number of spectators attending Samsung home games this season increased to 1,014,689.

This is the first year that more than 1 million spectators have attended a Samsung home game.

▽Starting pitchers for the 15th game △Jamsil: Lotte Park Se-woong-Doosan Choi Won-jun △Daejeon: LG Lim Chan-gyu-Hanwha Kim Ki-joong △Daegu: KT Benjamin-Samsung Conner △Gocheok: KIA Yang Hyeon-jong-KIA Heisus △Changwon: SSG Elias-NC Yokishi

Reporter Hwang Gyu-in [email protected]

2024-08-14 22:31:02