Kiwoom Heroes, the lowest in the professional baseball regular league, came from behind to beat the No. 1 KIA Tigers with Choi Joo-hwan’s thrilling walk-off home run.
Kiwoom won 2-1 at home against the KIA Tigers in the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 14th.
It was Choi Joo-hwan who was dragged 0-1 all the time and gave Kiwoom a victory, which tied the score in the eighth inning.
Choi Joo-hwan hit a walk-off home run over the right fence by targeting KIA’s seventh pitcher Jung Hae-young’s fastball in the ninth inning with one out and no runners.
Choi Joo-hwan marked his 10th home run of the season with his third career walk-off home run.
In the second inning, KIA’s leadoff hitter Socrates Brito’s missed ball fell to a defenseless place and became a double to left field, and Lee Woo-sung’s infield grounder made the runner go to third base.
And after one out, Choi Won-joon hit a timely hit in front of the right field penetrating the Kiwoom infield’s forward defense.
The game, which had been on a march of zero for a while, returned to square one in the eighth inning. 스포츠토토
Kiwoom’s Kim Tae-jin got on base with an infield hit to the second base after two outs, and Park Joo-hong drew his third walk of the game, and the runner went to the scoring position.
Here, Lee Ju-hyung’s training ball deflected off the body of first baseman Lee Woo-sung, making it a right-handed hit, and second baseman Kim Tae-jin homered to tie the score 1-1.
KIA Kim Do-young, who will join the 30-homer-30 steal club as the youngest player in the KBO league with just one home run added, failed to produce a home run with one hit and one walk in three at-bats.
In the fifth inning, Kim Do-young hit a big hit in the direction of the right fence with one out, but he had to settle for a direct triple on the fence.
Kiwoom starter Ariel Furado did not take the victory because he did not receive help from the batters even though he pitched brilliantly with five hits, two walks, six strikeouts and one run in seven innings.
Kiwoom Joo Seung-woo, who took the mound in the ninth inning and kept the KIA lineup scoreless in one inning, won his third victory of the season.
Gocheok Sky Dome, where the game was held, sold out 16,000 seats. It is Kiwoom’s 11th sellout this season.