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KIA, 5th place in professional baseball, and NC, 6th place by half a match, started the third round of a fateful match.
NC chose Koo Chang-mo and KIA started Yang Hyun-jong.
This is reporter Bae Jeong-hoon.
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KIA and NC had played 12 and a half games until June 1st, but the gap narrowed to half a match as NC rose to a 60% win rate in the second half and KIA recently fell to 9 straight losses.
On the first day of three straight matches that were destined to determine the competition for 5th place, the KIA battalion line, which was in desperate crisis, gave strength first.
Against NC left-handed ace Koo Chang-mo, he took the lead by scoring five hits in one inning and scoring three points first.
KIA Yang Hyun-jong, who complained of pain from sudden elbow pain, played the role of an ace by stopping five innings with one run, and became the first pitcher in the KBO league to throw 170 innings or more for eight consecutive years.
KIA leads NC 3-1 and is aiming to escape from their 9th straight loss.
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Seventh-place Lotte, chasing KIA by two games, is ahead of LG, which is busy in leading competition by adding seven more points after winning the first three points with Hwang Seong-bin's triple and Rex's just-time hit.
(Video editing: Woo-Jeong Woo, CG: Seung-Hyeon Seo)