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Pro baseball's NC, which had a large number of main players leaving last month due to the 'defense deviance scandal', is on an unexpected rise recently. Yesterday (the 22nd) also won a comeback victory against LG and ran 3 straight wins.
Correspondent Lee Seong-hoon.
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4th inning, NC center fielder Altair diligently followed LG Hong Chang-ki's big hit, but he caught it and missed it.
While right fielder Na Seong-beom, who followed late, groped the ball again, Chang-ki Hong sprinted home and made his 88th KBO League career ground home run.
Soon after, NC gave Seo Geon-chang a two-run home run, and in the continuing crisis, first baseman Jin-seong Kang and left fielder Ki-hwan Kim managed to prevent additional runs from conceding.
At the end of the 4th, NC, who started chasing after Na Seong-beom's just-in-time hit, turned the game over with one hit in the 6th inning, Altair's 20th three-point home run.
NC, where the new closing pitcher Yong-chan Lee made a scoreless save for three games in a row, ran a three-game winning streak with a 4-3 comeback victory, chasing third-placed Samsung by three games.
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KT native ace Young-pyo Ko, who confirmed his international competitiveness at the Tokyo Olympics, led the team to a 3-1 victory in 7 innings without a score against Lotte, winning his eighth win of the season, the most of the season.
Kiwoom escaped from a three-game losing streak by splitting the game with a one-on-one match with KIA in the 7th inning, Song Seong-moon's 2 RBI and Park Dong-won's three-point home run.
Hanwha defeated Doosan with two runs in the 3rd inning by Taeyeon Kim and a home run by Joo-seok Ha in the 4th inning and running for two straight wins.
SSG and Samsung drew 4-4 after exchanging a two-run home run with Lee Hyun-seok's come-back three-run in the 5th and Oh Jae-il's tied two-run home run in the 6th.