Koo Ja-wook 3 points → Oh Ji-hwan 1 point → Kim Young-woong 1 point → Diaz 2 points, PO 'Home Run War' Realized from Game 1
Oct 13, 2024
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Samsung Lions captain Koo Ja-wook took the lead with a decisive three-point shot.
Koo Ja-wook started in the third left field in the first round of the playoffs against LG at Lions Park in Daegu on the 13th.
He was involved in the first run from his first at-bat in the first inning.
After one out, when No. 2 Yoon Jung-bin got on base with a double on the right-wing line, he pulled Choi Won-tae's fastball and hit a ball that seemed to fall between 1-2 bases. It went into the glove of second baseman Shin Min-jae, who flew, but it became a safe infield hit. It became first and third base with one out, and Diaz's sacrifice fly came out.
Samsung caught a big chance in the third inning, when it was leading 1-0.
Top hitters Kim Ji-chan and Yoon Jung-bin hit back-to-back hits to first and third bases with no outs. Koo Ja-wook turned Choi Won-tae's high pitch cutter into a solid swing in 1B1S. At the moment of the hit, the blue wave of Lions Park fluctuated all at once.
A big hit that the batter was sure was a home run fell well over the fence in the middle of the right and under the electronic display.
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He has 33 home runs this season, surpassing his first 30 home runs since his debut. The player who hit the most home runs in Samsung. In particular, he showed a crazy batting sense with 29 hits in 58 at-bats and a batting average of 50% between September and October at the end of the season. In the 16 games he played in September, he had nine home runs (1st), 24 RBIs (1st), 18 runs (2nd), an on-base percentage of 0.559 (1st), a slugging percentage of 1.017 (1st), and an OPS of 1.576 (1st).
The atmosphere is that the hot hitting at the end of the season is not cooling down and is being transferred to the first game of autumn baseball. Multi-hits, including home runs in the first two at-bats, were a welcome signal for Samsung's bench.
LG, which took the lead by 0-4, fired a solo shot against starter Reyes after Oh Ji-hwan had two outs in the top of the fourth inning. However, Samsung replaced Choi Won-tae with two outs in the bottom of the fourth inning when Kim Young-woong hit a superior solo home run and ran 5-1 again.
Samsung's batters' slugging power started early on. It wasn't the end. After one out in the bottom of the fifth inning, when Koo Ja-wook got on base with a walk after a full count match, Diaz aimed for Kim Jin-sung's fork ball and easily crossed the right fence. 120m two-run shot that makes it 7-1. It was Samsung's third cannon of the day.
The first and second rounds of the playoffs, when the "home run war" was announced, seem to be getting hotter from the first round. Samsung, which hit three decisive cannons until the fifth inning, is leading 7-1. The El Dorado chant, which should be resonated around the eighth inning, began to flow out at the end of the fifth inning.
hschung@sportschosun.com
