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Pro baseball's SSG ace Kim Kwang-hyeon continued to fight yesterday (3rd).
He is on his 140 career win streak, returning to the top-ranked ERA.
Correspondent Lee Seong-hoon.
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Kim Kwang-hyun, who gave up a first point for the first time since returning to Korea three times before Hanwha, showed a more powerful pitching after that.
He made a strikeout show by mixing more diverse pitches to prevent additional runs, and although he was at risk of scoring in the 6th and 7th innings, he caught a follow-up hitter and completed one run in seven innings.
Kim Kwang-hyeon, who led the team to a 4-2 victory, became the sixth player in history to reach the 140-win record, and returned to first place with an ERA of 0.56 by filling the innings.
Before the Jamsil rival, LG had a thrilling comeback victory over Doosan.
In the eighth inning, one point behind, Hong Chang-gi and Kim Hyeon-soo took a chance with consecutive hits, and then turned the game over with Chae Eun-seong and Moon Bo-kyung's consecutive sacrifice flies and escaped from a three-game losing streak.
NC put on a showdown with Samsung despite the bad news that two coaches caused a drunken violence accident and were excluded from the battlefield.
In the eighth inning, three points behind, Ho-Chul Seo's first home run of the season, Park Gun-Woo's just-time hit, Roh Jin-Hyeok's exquisite squeeze bunt, and Oh Young-Soo's first three-point home run were added to score 7 points and escaped from the second straight loss.
KT put the brakes on Lotte's upward momentum amid Park Byeong-ho's 3 hits including his 6th home run of the season, and Kiwoom threw KIA into a swamp of 6 straight losses and ran 3 victories with ace Yokishi's 7 innings and 1 run run.