'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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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