SSG Landers overpowered the NC Dinos and jumped to a tie for fifth place.
SSG won 10-1 in the away game of the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League against NC at Changwon NC Park on the 26th.
SSG ranked fifth along with KT Wiz (70 wins, 70 losses, and two draws), which had no match on the day. Both teams lost ground. Both teams have two more games to play. NC ranks ninth with 60 wins, 77 losses and two draws.
Both teams failed to score points until the third inning, with Elias at SSG and Yokishi at NC Dinos as starters. SSG broke the tight “0” balance. In the top of the fourth inning, leadoff hitter Han Yu-sum hit a third curve ball against Yokishi at the ball count 1-1 and hit a first solo shot over the right fence.
Since then, both SSG and NC failed to score points and the game went on. At the top of the seventh inning, when SSG was keeping a 1-0 thin ice lead, it finally got its chance. NC changed its pitcher from Ryu Jin-wook to Lee Yong-chan. Leading hitter Jihoon Choi walked to get on the base and was replaced by pinch runner Choi Sang-min. SSG had a chance to hit the first and third bases with one out thanks to Park Sung-han’s heavy hit, and Choi Jeong hit a timely two-run double that fell inside the left field line. When his successor Herredia hit a timely hit to make it 4-1, NC replaced the pitcher with Lee Joon-ho. However, with two outs, SSG ran to 5-1 with Han Yoo-som hitting a timely double to the right field.
SSG, which was on the rise, scored five runs in the top of the eighth inning, effectively determining the outcome. Leading hitter Oh Tae-gon got on base with an infield single and scored on Choi Sang-min’s timely double. With runners on the first and third bases with no outs (6-1), Jeong Joon-jae had a timely double to the right center, Choi Jeong had a timely two-run single to the left center, and Herredia had a timely hit to the left field, leading the team to run to 10-0 run. In the bottom of the eighth inning, with runners on the first and second bases with two outs, Chun Jae-hwan hit a timely hit to the left, but it did not affect the trend.
Now, SSG will take a day off on Thursday and face Hanwha on Wednesday and then take another day off, and have a final match against Kiwoom on Thursday. KT has two consecutive home games between Kiwoom and Suwon on Wednesday and Sunday. If the two teams achieve the same results in the remaining two games, the team could face the first showdown in the history of fifth place (tiebreaker) in the KBO history. In fact, there was a prospect that it would not be easy for SSG as its loss to LG widened its gap with KT to one game. However, it caught up again by winning two consecutive games. Now, it has to win first and wait for the other team to lose. If the fifth-place tiebreaker is held, it will inevitably consume ace pitchers. In this case, only the Doosan Bears, who clinched the fourth place and arrived in the wild card game, are expected to smile.
Meanwhile, SSG starting pitcher Elias pitched seven innings (92 pitches) with four hits, one walk, 10 strikeouts, and no points, and achieved seven wins (seven losses) in this season. Park Si-hoo gave one run in one inning and Park Sung-bin pitched one scoreless inning, respectively. Choi Jeong and Han Yu-sum had three hits, while Park Sung-han, Lee Ji-young and Oh Tae-gon had multi hits, respectively, in the batting lineup, which had 17 hits in long and short periods. Han Yu-sum, who drew his 24th arch of this season, had home runs (20th of this season) against his former team. Choi Jeong-eun had 30 home runs and 100 RBIs (93rd in KBO history). 메이저사이트
On the other hand, NC`s starting pitcher Yokishi allowed seven hits, one walk, seven strikeouts and one run (one earned) in five innings, thus securing his fourth loss (three wins) in this season. Ryu Jin-wook (one inning), Lee Yong-chan (four runs in the ⅓ innings), Lee Joon-ho (five runs in the ⅔ innings), Choi Woo-seok (one inning), and Choi Sung-young (one inning) pitched in turn. In the seven-hit lineup, Kim Joo-won and Davidson performed multi-hit games. Acting manager Gong Pil-sung’s first win was postponed to the next round. Son Ah-seop, who recently returned from knee injury, appeared as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning and struck out.