Lotte Giants achieved their team’s fourth “hit by all starters” this season, continuing their three-game winning streak.
Lotte defeated the Doosan Bears 12-2 in an away game of the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 14th and moved up one place to seventh place.
On this day, Lotte had 19 hits, with nine batters who started even before the cleaning time (ground clearance after the bottom of the fifth inning) hitting more than one hit.
Lotte had consecutive hits by Ko Seung-min and Son Ho-young after one out in the top of the first inning, and after two outs, Na Seung-yeop walked and got a chance to load the bases with two outs.
Veteran Jeon Jun-woo hit Doosan starter Jordan Balazovic’s fork ball and hit a two-run timely hit heading in front of center field.
In the top of the second inning, after one out, Son Sung-bin’s double to right field, Hwang Sung-bin hit a triple that separated the right-center to score an additional point. 토토사이트
Doosan recovered one run with a timely hit that slightly exceeded the height of Jung Soo-bin’s second baseman following Huh Kyung-min’s double in the bottom of the second inning.
However, Lotte reached third base while Doosan left fielder Kim Jae-hwan fumbled after Victor Reyes hit a double to left-center in the third inning, and Jeon Jun-woo hit a sacrifice fly to center field to run 4-1 again.
Lotte went on an onslaught even in the middle of the game.
In the fifth inning, he added one more run when Yoon Dong-hee grounded out in front of the shortstop with no outs and runners on the first and third bases, which were made with Na Seung-yeop’s double to right field and Jeon Joon-woo’s hit to right field.
In the sixth inning, Reyes’ two-run double to the right-center hit with one out and one on the first and second bases made by Ko Seung-min’s heavy hit and Son Ho-young’s walk, and Jeon Joon-woo added one run with a double to the right field with two outs and second base to secure the win by running to 8-1.
Jeon Jun-woo played a perfect game with four hits and five RBIs in four at-bats.
Doosan’s Kim Jae-hwan filled his 20th home run of the season with a solo arch over the left wall in the bottom of the sixth inning and hit his 10th home run against his former club this season, but the victory was already leaning toward Lotte.
Lotte left-handed starter Kim Jin-wook gave up five walks in five innings, but allowed only three hits and minimized the number of runs to one, securing his fourth win of the season.
Balazovic lost his second game (2 losses) of the season with nine hits and four runs in four innings.