'Winning Front Lee Sang-moo' Park Chan-ho's 5th base → Lauer 9K perfect pitch → Na Sung-bum's wedge shot KIA, 'weapon've defeated Lotte 10-0

Sep 12, 2024

'Winning Front Lee Sang-moo' Park Chan-ho's 5th base → Lauer 9K perfect pitch → Na Sung-bum's wedge shot KIA, 'weapon've defeated Lotte 10-0
photo courtesy of the KIA Tigers
'Winning Front Lee Sang-moo' Park Chan-ho's 5th base → Lauer 9K perfect pitch → Na Sung-bum's wedge shot KIA, 'weapon've defeated Lotte 10-0
photo courtesy of the KIA Tigers
'Winning Front Lee Sang-moo' Park Chan-ho's 5th base → Lauer 9K perfect pitch → Na Sung-bum's wedge shot KIA, 'weapon've defeated Lotte 10-0
photo courtesy of the KIA Tigers
KIA Tigers have completely reversed their natural enemy relationship with Lotte Giants this season. He blocked even the on-base, let alone lost a run, and devastated the opponent's mound with a 15-hit bat.

The KIA Tigers won the game against the Lotte Giants 10-0 at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 12th.

KIA was trailing Lotte with five wins, seven losses and one draw this year before the game. There is also a nightmarish game that led 14-1 this season but drew 15-15.

But this day was different. It was a game in which the helpless Lotte batters prepared with the fierce width of KIA's slugging line centered on Park Chan-ho. Lotte was tied up with a no-hitter by the fifth inning with only one walk from KIA starter Eric Lauer. Park Seung-wook's hit in the top of the sixth inning narrowly avoided a no-hitter, but he only had one more hit after Lauer went down.

On the other hand, KIA shook the Lotte mound all the time as leadoff Park Chan-ho achieved the on-base hit with four hits and one walk with his reputation as the Lotte killer. Socrates, Kim Do-young, Kim Sun-bin and Lee Chang-jin completed the victory by steadily accumulating points at every crisis. Na Sung-bum celebrated the drop in the magic number by shooting a wedge solo shot in the bottom of the seventh inning.

'Winning Front Lee Sang-moo' Park Chan-ho's 5th base → Lauer 9K perfect pitch → Na Sung-bum's wedge shot KIA, 'weapon've defeated Lotte 10-0
photo courtesy of the KIA Tigers
With the victory, KIA recorded its 81st win (50 losses and two draws) and reduced its regular season winning magic number to five. On the other hand, Lotte lost for the 67th time (59 wins and 4 draws), widening the gap with the Doosan Bears, which had no game.

On this day, Lotte played in the lineup of Yoon Dong-hee (center fielder), Ko Seung-min (second base), Son Ho-young (third base), Reyes (right wing), Jeon Joon-woo (left wing), Na Seung-yeop (first base), Jung Hoon (designated hitter), Park Seung-wook (striker) and Kang Tae-yul (catcher). The starting pitcher is Kim Jin-wook.

KIA faced off with Park Chan-ho (striker), Socrates (middle fielder), Kim Do-young (third base), Choi Hyung-woo (designated hitter), Na Sung-bum (right fielder), Kim Sun-bin (second base), Lee Woo-sung (first base), Kim Tae-gun (catcher) and Lee Chang-jin (left fielder). The starter was Lauer.

KIA got off to a fresh start by neatly scoring the first run from the bottom of the first inning. The leadoff hitter Park Chan-ho hit a double to left-center, and Socrates' infield ground ball made it one out and third base. And Park Chan-ho homered during Kim Do-young's sacrifice fly.

'Winning Front Lee Sang-moo' Park Chan-ho's 5th base → Lauer 9K perfect pitch → Na Sung-bum's wedge shot KIA, 'weapon've defeated Lotte 10-0
photo courtesy of the KIA Tigers
KIA gained momentum by adding three runs in the bottom of the second inning. Kim Tae-gun's sacrifice bunt following consecutive hits by Kim Sun-bin and Lee Woo-sung made it to second and third base with one out, followed by Lee Chang-jin's two-run double and Park Chan-ho's one-run timely hit, making it 4-0.

The game, which continued calmly, shook again in the bottom of the fifth inning. Leading hitter Kim Do-young got on base with a double, and one out later, Na Sung-bum's walk made it to first and second base with one out. Here, Lotte Kim Jin-wook's wild pitch and Lotte shortstop Park Seung-wook's home pitch error continued when Kim Sun-bin grounded out, making it 6-0. Lotte starter Kim Jin-wook was eventually replaced without completing the fifth inning.

'Winning Front Lee Sang-moo' Park Chan-ho's 5th base → Lauer 9K perfect pitch → Na Sung-bum's wedge shot KIA, 'weapon've defeated Lotte 10-0
photo courtesy of the KIA Tigers
Lotte's batters, who had been weighed down with one out in the fourth inning, managed to achieve their first on-base hit by Ko Seung-min's walk. In the top of the sixth inning, leadoff hitter Park Seung-wook got on base with a hit, stopping KIA Lauer's no-hitter. However, Lauer struck out Kang Tae-yul, Yoon Dong-hee, and Ko Seung-min for the third consecutive time, ending the day's appearance with six scoreless innings and 9K.

KIA widened the gap to 8-0 by adding one point each with Park Chan-ho's hit, Socrates' RBI double, and Na Sung-bum's solo shot in the bottom of the seventh inning after one out in the bottom of the sixth inning.

He failed to score a point with two outs and a full base, but added two more runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to end the day's one-sided game. Following Lauer, Jang Hyun-sik in the seventh inning, Kwak Do-gyu in the eighth inning, and Kim Ki-hoon in the ninth inning were also clean.





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