The Hanwha Eagles, who gave their first victories to SSG Landers, who took the lead at the beginning of the season with a terrifying momentum, gave their first consecutive defeat as well.
Hanwha won the 2022 Shinhan Bank Sol KBO League home match against SSG 9-2 at Daejeon Hanwha Life Eagles Park today (23rd).
Hanwha, who defeated SSG 2-0 the day before, put SSG to sleep for two days in a row and succeeded in winning the second consecutive winning series.
Leading SSG suffered their first straight loss after opening, putting the brakes on their relentless sprint.
SSG starter Ivan Nova, who has won 90 of his career in the major leagues, collapsed last year with 9 hits, 4 walks and 9 runs in 4.2 innings against Hanwha, the lowest ranked team.
Hanwha took the lead with Nova's fierce throw in the bottom of the 1st inning and took a 3-0 lead thanks to Noh Si-hwan's mid-month two-run four in the 4th.
At the end of the 4th inning, he added 4 points and won the game.
After the first out, following Choi Jae-hoon's walk, Mike Turkman, Noh Si-hwan, Ha Joo-seok, and Kim Tae-yeon's four consecutive hits exploded.
Hanwha added two points with just-in-time hits from Kim Tae-yeon and Noh Soo-gwang in the bottom of the 5th inning and took Nova off the mound.
Hanwha starter Nam Ji-min laid the foundation for victory with a reverse pitching of 2 hits and 1 run in 3.2 innings, and Guwon Jeong-rak Shin won the victory with a perfect pitching 1.1 innings.
In the batting line, Noh Si-hwan led the team's 3rd win in a row with 3 hits and 2 RBIs in 4 at-bats including the 2nd home run of the season.
In Suwon, KT wiz, with the potential of the 'defending champion' revived, played a 4-3 reverse play against the NC Dinos and ran for five consecutive wins.
KT turned the game around with a solo home run in the left middle by pinch hitter Kim Byung-hee in the bottom of the 8th inning, which was led 1-2, and Park Byeong-ho, who came to the plate from 2nd and 1st base, hit Won Jong-hyun's 4th ball at 146km/h and fell to the top of the outfield crowd in the left middle. He hit a huge home run.
KT, who drew three points in the '8th inning of promise' and overturned the game, finished pitcher Kim Jae-yoon in the beginning of the ninth, and saved by one run.
KT moved up to tied for 6th after 5 consecutive wins.
The bottom-ranked NC missed a match and fell into a swamp of three straight losses.
At Jamsil Stadium, where the 'Seoul Rival Match' between the LG Twins and the Doosan Bears was held, LG's main hitter Kim Hyun-soo was sent off while protesting the strike decision.
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Kim Hyun-soo could not accept the strike when Doosan starter Ariel Miranda's high forkball strike was declared in the no-out first base in the third inning, when the team was behind 1-3.
He immediately turned his back and expressed dissatisfaction with referee Lee Gye-sung, who advised Hyun-soo Kim to return to the plate several times, but Hyun-soo Kim refused to give up and was eventually sent off. We lost by 4.
Doosan won the victory with Jaehwan Kim's three-run homer in the bottom of the first inning, but ace Miranda's repeated sluggishness didn't make a big difference.
Throwing seven straight balls since his first pitch, Miranda allowed two runs in three innings, one hit and two, and contributed six walks while striking out two.
In Daegu Samsung Lions Park, where the Lotte Giants and Samsung Lions clash, there was a case where they were sent off while protesting to the referee over the strike decision issue.
Samsung Koo Ja-wook, who entered the plate with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning, where both teams faced 2-2, was hit in the calf by Lotte starting Glenn Sparkman's first fastball.
In the first inning at the bottom of the first inning, Ja-wook Koo, who had a dangerous moment, such as the ball flying behind his back, was excited when he was hit by the body in the third at-bat.
Ja-wook Koo showed his anger as he walked towards the mound, and players from both teams rushed out and it spread to bench clearing.
The bench clearing ended without major crashes, but the heated atmosphere continued with the next batter Jose Pirella's at-bat.
When Pirella was struck out by looking at Sparkman's low fastball, he protested fiercely to referee Kim Seong-cheol and was ordered to send off.
Samsung, who suddenly lost Pirella, who was appointed as the center hitter and interim captain, was unable to give strength in the attack.
To make matters worse, rookie infielder Lee Jae-hyeon who graduated from high school gave up the finish line with two errors in the 6th inning and lost 2-4.
Lotte's starting sparkman won his first victory on the Korean stage with a powerful pitch that struck out seven in five innings.
Kiwoom Heroes defeated the KIA Tigers 3-1 in the 3-run performance of Jeong-hoo Lee, who was responsible for all of the team's goals, and escaped from their 3rd consecutive losing streak.
Jung-hoo Lee performed a 'one-man show' in 4 at-bats, 2 hits and 3 RBIs.
At the bottom of the third inning, 1 out 2 and 3 bases, Lee Jung-hoo hit a 149km/h fastball from KIA left-handed starter Eui-ri Lee at the bottom of the third inning, which was 0-1, and hit a double with a double RBI that hit the left fence directly.
At the end of the 5th inning, in a situation where there were no runners out, he attacked Lee Ui-ri's 145 km/h fastball and crossed the wall between the right and the middle.
This is Lee Jung-hoo's fourth home run of the season.
Last year, Rookie of the Year Lee Eui-ri blocked 6 innings with 6 hits, 3 runs and 6 strikeouts to achieve the first quality start of the season, but was beaten by a long blow to Lee Jung-hoo, the rookie of the year in 2017 and the batting leader in 2021.
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