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With the beginning of the era of 'With Corona', the professional baseball fall festival has begun. In the first round of the wild card decision, Kiwoom defeated Doosan with the final blow from Lee Jung-hoo and took the game to the second round.
Byung-min Yoo.
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Kiwoom and Doosan played a game of chasing and being chased until the end, with 12,000 spectators, the largest number since the Korean Series in 2019, signaling the beginning of the With Corona era.
Kiwoom took the lead by drawing two points first with the concentration of the other line in the 6 innings of Ahn Woo-jin, who threw a high-speed ball with a maximum speed of 157 km.
Then, Doosan counterattacked at the end of the 7th inning.
At one-out 1st and 3rd base opportunities, pinch hitter Kim In-tae blew two RBIs just in time to turn the game around.
When Kiwoom picked up two points with a bold base play in the early 8th and took the lead again, Doosan Kim Jae-hwan hit a two-run homer equalized at the end of the 8th, driving Jamsil Stadium into a frenzy.
The tense match was split at the bat of batting king Lee Jeong-hoo in the early ninth inning.
He roared after hitting a double RBI double in the two-out 1st and 2nd base, which was over the height of center fielder.
Kiwoom, who added Park Byeong-ho's one-run, just-time hit, won the first game 7-4 and escaped from the edge of the cliff.
It is the second time in history that the 5th place team won the first wild card game after KIA in 2016.
[Lee Jung-hoo/Kiwoom: I had so much fun playing a game like autumn baseball, and I was actually imagining it a little bit.
I thought I was going to hit it, and it felt so good.]
Kiwoom, who succeeded in counterattacking, will challenge to pass the first wildcard in the postseason history in the second game today (2nd).