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The second half of the professional baseball race has begun.
Kiwoom's starting pitcher Ahn Woo-jin took the lead in strikeouts with his unique fastball.
This is reporter Bae Jeong-hoon.
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Ahn Woo-jin, who played a dazzling performance with an ERA of 0.89 in the last four games of the first half, continued his upward trend in the first game of the second half.
With a fast ball with a top speed of 156 km/h, he put Samsung to sleep with 3 hits and no runs in 6 innings.
He struck out six, beating my NC's Luchinsky to become the sole No. 1 in strikeouts.
Samsung concedes 1 point in the 5th inning and is trying to escape the 12th straight streak with a super strong pitcher Suarez, a foreign pitcher, instead of starting Won Tae-in, but they are 1-0 down until the 7th.
Noh Si-hwan, who missed the first-team entry due to a thigh injury in February, showed off his powerful instincts in the return game after 4 kills.
In the 4th inning, leading 1-0, he shot the 4th solo gun of the season that went over the left middle fence against KT starting Benjamin.
Hanwha, where the starting Laminez pitched 7 innings and 1 hit and no score, was ahead of KT 5-0 with home runs from Kim Tae-hyun and Kim In-hwan, and is on the verge of escaping from a 6-game losing streak.
Lotte Dae-ho Lee, the No. 1 batting average batting champion aiming for the oldest batting king in his retirement season, hit a two-run home run in the 12th inning in the 6th inning before Kia.
(Video editing: Woo-Jeong Woo)