The Doosan Bears, who could not just withdraw from the ‘Jamsil Derby’, missed the victory in the second game of the series. The losing streak got longer.
Doosan lost 6-7 in the 9th game of the season against the LG Twins in the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League held at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on the 29th, and fell into a quagmire of 4 consecutive losses, and the season record was 44 wins, 1 draw and 40 losses (0.524).
On this day, 21,126 spectators visited the baseball field and sent cheers to the players of both teams despite the ‘scorching heat’ of over 30 degrees at Jamsil Baseball Stadium. Fans, like the players, had a strong will to escape the losing streak.
However, the game began to twist in the process of allowing the first point. Doosan, who maintained a balance of 0 with LG until the end of the 4th inning, dedicated a large number of runs with an unexpected variable at the beginning of the 5th inning.
It was Yang Eui-ji, the main catcher, who caused the crisis. At the beginning of the 4th inning, the second pitcher Kim Myung-shin came up from 1 out 1 and 2 base, but catcher Yang Eui-ji could not catch the 3-ball fastball thrown at Shin Min-jae and threw it back. The official record was Yang Eui-ji’s fastball (foil).
Doosan, who took a breather with Shin Min-jae’s strikeout, sent Hong Chang-ki into an automatic intentional 4th pitch and chose to fight Seong-joo Moon, but it became a ‘handshake’. Moon Seong-joo scored a left-handed hit with the second base loaded, and Moon Bo-kyung, the third base runner, and Park Hae-min, the second base runner, scored in turn. Here, even first base runner Hong Chang-ki rushed home.
In the case of Hong Chang-ki, the centrifuge was out, but the decision was overturned to safe after the LG bench requested a video review. The reading center, which looked into the situation related to the home collision together, determined that catcher Yang Eui-ji blocked Hong Chang-ki’s hand, who tried to slide.
Then Doosan coach Lee Seung-yeop kicked out of the dugout and strongly expressed his dissatisfaction. There was no way he didn’t know that dissatisfaction with the results of the video review would lead to an ejection, but he continued to protest for a while, even risking being ejected. In addition, Doosan dedicated one more point to the follow-up hitter Kim Hyun-soo’s one RBI and timely hit, widening the gap between the two teams to 0-4.
Considering LG’s Pil Seung-jo, the difference of 4 points was by no means a small gap, but Doosan, who had to digest the game without a command tower, immediately started chasing. In the bottom of the 5th inning, Kang Seung-ho’s hit ball and Yang Chan-yeol and Park Jun-young’s consecutive hits made the bases safe, and after Kim Tae-geun’s strikeout, Soo-bin Jeong hit a timely one RBI hit. Doosan’s first goal of the day.
In the ensuing 2 outs loaded, Kim Jae-hwan called in two runners with a right-handed hit. However, the inning ended in vain as Kim Jae-hwan, who was caught off guard by the throw to first base by the right fielder, was tagged out at first base. It was Doosan who could push LG further with two runners if they had led more innings.
Doosan’s ordeal, which seemed to be approaching victory with 1 point at the end of the 6th inning and 2 points at the end of the 8th, was not over. The choice of Doosan Bench, who ran the game without a command tower, pushed Jeong Cheol-won, who ended the 8th inning with 9 balls, to the 9th inning, resulting in a ‘failure’. Moon Bo-gyeong’s double and Park Hae-min’s hit made it 1 out and 1st and 3rd base, and when Shin Min-jae hit, shortstop Kim Jae-ho made an error in throwing, and third base runner Moon Bo-gyeong stepped home.메이저사이트
When LG caught up with a 1-point lead, Doosan put Hong Kun-hee on the mound, but LG, who added 1 point when the follow-up hitter Hong Chang-ki grounded, balanced the score 6-6. In the top of the 10th inning, third baseman Heo Gyeong-min failed to handle a ground ball hit by Oh Ji-hwan from 1st out and 3rd base, so Doosan even allowed a turnaround and had no choice but to postpone the escape from the losing streak to the next game.
The number of mistakes officially recorded was two, but if invisible mistakes were included, loopholes were revealed here and there.
Fans and players left the stadium with a heavy heart at the performance that was not ‘third place’.