In professional baseball, KT defeated SSG to stay in second place behind a perfect game from starter Benjamin and a big hit from Park Byung-ho.
Samsung came up one run short against KIA despite hitting two walk-off home runs.
In the ninth inning, KT’s Park Byung-ho sends a ball off the fence off SSG’s Lee Roon in relief.
A two-run shot to seal the win.
In a pitching battle between left-handed ace Benjamin and Kim Kwang-hyun, the game was decided by Park Byung-ho.
Park hit a leadoff single against Kwang-hyun in the sixth inning, and then in the ninth, he hit his 375th career home run to give his team the win.
“We had a tough game against SSG last weekend, so it feels good to start the new week with a win again. For now, we want to keep our second place and finish strong.”
KT Benjamin, who was perfect until the seventh inning, pitched a near-perfect game, allowing just one hit in eight innings to earn the win.
Kim Kwang-hyun also pitched six innings, striking out five and allowing one run, but the silence of the bats cost him the loss.
In the bottom of the eighth inning, Samsung’s Lee Jae-hyun tied the game again with a solo shot over the left field fence.
Samsung scored runs in the first and sixth innings on RBI singles by Oh Jae-il and Kim Hyun-joon, respectively, but held off KIA’s late rally to take a hard-fought 10-9 victory.
Samsung rallied to a 9-9 tie after KIA’s Kim Do-young and Na Sung-beom hit two-run homers in the seventh and Oh Sun-woo hit a solo shot in the eighth, but the team held on to the lead in the ninth after closer Oh Seung-hwan worked out of a bases-loaded jam.
Doosan extended its winning streak to three games by beating Hanwha, which had won six straight.토토사이트
After taking a 3-0 lead and allowing the tying run to score, Doosan used back-to-back blasts from the Hanwha bullpen in the bottom of the fourth and sixth innings to pull out the win and close the gap on fifth-place SSG to two games.