The LG Twins decorated their 3-game series with a winning series against NC Dinos, who tied for first place, and leaped to the sole lead. The victory obtained by destroying the ‘nemesis’ was even sweeter.
LG won 9-4 in the third game of the season against the NC Dinos of the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League held at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on the 20th. Continuing the energy of the 7-5 come-from-behind victory the previous day, he jumped from a tie for first place with NC to the sole lead.
From the beginning of the game, LG succeeded in targeting NC starting pitcher Song Myung-ki. Leading batsman Hong Chang-ki opened the attack with a walk, and Moon Seong-joo had a chance to secure first and second base with a hit. Right away, Kim Min-sung’s 1 RBI and timely hit broke out, and he took the lead.
Additional points came quickly. At the end of the 3rd inning with a 1-0 lead, lead hitter Moon Seong-joo walked and Kim Min-sung left-handed hit connected the chance for 1st and 2nd base to the center batting line. made the score 3-0.
LG starting pitcher Kim Yun-sik did his part with one run through the 5th inning, and the 3 points the hitters scored against Song Myeong-ki served as a big stepping stone to the victory. Song Myung-ki struck out Min-seong Kim with one out and first and second bases at the bottom of the fourth inning, but the number of pitches exceeded 90 and runners on first and second bases double-stealed, putting them in danger of two outs and second and third bases.
The NC bench judged that it would be difficult for Song Myung-ki to effectively compete with LG’s fourth hitter, Austin, and replaced the pitcher with Ryu Jin-wook. LG didn’t score in the bottom of the 4th inning as Austin stepped down with a hit to Ryu Jin-wook.
After Song Myeong-ki was beaten with 6 hits, 4 walks and 3 runs in 3⅔innings, the NC bullpen was activated early, and LG quickly consolidated the victory by adding 1 point at the end of the 5th inning and 4 more points at the end of the 7th inning.
Until this game, LG was particularly weak in Song Myung-gi. Song Myeong-gi has been harassing LG as a ‘twin killer’ with a total of 8 games (5 starts) 34⅔ innings 2 wins and an undefeated ERA of 1.30 against LG. 메이저사이트
Song Myeong-ki showed off his sharp prowess with an average ERA of 0.52, 1 win and 1 loss in 3 games since the opening of this season, so it was expected that this day would also be a difficult match, but LG’s other liners overcame their natural enemies and won a valuable one.
For LG, it was a satisfying day in many aspects, including the winning series during the week, winning first place alone, and giving the natural enemy the pain of the first defeat.