Kiwoom leads 6-0 and wins 7-6... PO 1 win 1 loss

▲ Kim Hye-seong of Kiwoom is celebrating after hitting one RBI

The professional baseball Kiwoom Heroes insulted the LG Twins in the first match and balanced the playoff record with 1 win and 1 loss.

Kiwoom defeated LG's fierce pursuit and won 7-6 in the second leg of the 2022 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO Postseason Playoff (PO, 3 wins out of 5) held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 25th.

Kiwoom, who consecrated the victory with three decisive errors the day before, sighed with a precious victory.

Kiwoom led the game 6-0 at the beginning of the game, drawing 5 points in the second inning, but was chased 7-6 by giving four points in the 5th inning, but Choi Won-tae, who came to the rescue as the 4th pitcher of the 6th inning and pitched 2 innings without a score Thanks to that, I got a thrilling win by one point.

Underhand Donghyuk Kim and finisher Jaewoong Kim neatly blocked the 8th and 9th innings, contributing to the victory.

Lee Yong-gyu, who appeared as Kiwoom's 2nd designated hitter, hit 2 hits in 4 at-bats and scored 2 runs, was selected as the Daily Most Valuable Player (MVP) and received a cash prize of 1 million won.

The third game between the two teams will take a day off and continue on the 27th at 6:30 pm at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, Kiwoom's home room.

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LG Plutco, who came up on the mound after a month of rest since September 25, got 8 hits in 1⅔ innings and gave up 6 runs (4 earned runs), bowing as a losing pitcher.

Kiwoom Yokishi also lost his sharp taste even in a well-advanced situation and was sluggish with 8 runs in 4 innings and 5 runs (3 earned runs).

Kiwoom took first and third chances with Lee Yong-gyu's heavy hit and Lee Jung-hoo's right-handed hit in the second one-out in the first one-out, and scored one point first with LG catcher Yoo Gang-Nam's fastball from Kim Hye-Sung's at-bat.

Yoo Gangnam could not put Plutco's high ball into the mitt and threw it back.

When LG missed a two-out full base reversal at the end of the 1st inning, Kiwoom took Plutco off the mound with 5 runs 'big inning' (4 or more runs in one inning), 1-0 in the 2nd inning.

Leader Kim Tae-jin lost the flag of Flutco with a right-handed hit after a close 9 pitches match.

In one-out second base followed by Lee Ji-young's sending bunt, 'Autumn Man' Song Seong-moon hit the left-handed hit, running 2-0.

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In the two-out 2nd and 3rd bases, which followed Kim Hwi-jip's left-handed hit and Kim Jun-wan's ground ball, Yong-gyu Lee hit a flutco's first ball and fell in the middle, sending both runners home.

Immediately, Jung-hoo Lee hit a double with a RBI over the height of LG right fielder Hong Chang-gi, widening the gap to 5-0.

Jung-hoo Lee went to third base when Kim Hye-sung hit the left, and then took advantage of the gap between left fielder Kim Hyeon-soo's home charge and Yoo Gang-nam's mistake at second base.

LG Bench brought Flutco to the dugout and raised Kim Jin-seong to put the fire out.

LG recovered the two points with a double by Eun-seong Chae in one-out first and second bases followed by hits by Hae-Min Park and Hyeon-Soo Kim in the early 3rd inning.

Kim Jun-wan, a left fielder from Kiwoom, could not catch the ball that rolled out of the fence at once and threw it backwards, while first base runner Kim Hyeon-soo even stepped on the groove.

In the 5th inning, which was played again 7-2, by giving Hye-seong Kim a timely hit from the left in the 4th, LG finally got a chance to counterattack.

LG, who made up for one point with Lee Hyung-jong's double and Kim Hyeon-soo's just-in-time hit, jumped on to Kiwoom pitcher Eric Yokishi's bad first-base throw, which caught Eun-seong Chae's ground ball, and continued the no-outs 2nd and 3rd base opportunities.

Oh Ji-hwan attacked Kiwoom's second pitcher Yang-hyeon and threw a sacrifice fly to catch up 7-4, and Yang-hyeon, whose control was shaken by the continued crisis, allowed three consecutive walks and gave one more point by pushing.

When LG made a pinch hitter Seong-Joo Moon in One Out, Kiwoom raised left-handed Young-Jun Lee to counter it, and again LG played the second Jae-Won Lee pinch-hit card and added one point with a sacrifice fly, and LG chased it down to the chin 7-6.

However, in the two-out first and third bases, Hae-Min Park was caught with a floating ball and could not achieve a tie, which ultimately resulted in a loss.

Choi Won-tae mixed a two-seam fastball, a changeup, and a slider, and tied the LG line with one hit.

LG tried to block the Kiwoom line and overturn it with the quantity offensive by injecting 7 relief pitchers to the finisher Ko Woo-seok after the Flutco steel plate, but it was bitter as the fire did not ignite again.

(Photo = Yonhap News)